Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Patterson, Elizabeth | Monteyne, Joseph.
Date
2014-12-01
Keywords
Art history | Argentina, collective memory, collective trauma, Galindo, Guatemala, Performance Art
Department
Department of Art History and Criticism.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76884
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Using Coco Fusco's notion of the Reconquista to read ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas? of 2003 and Reconocimiento de un cuerpo of 2008, this paper investigates performance artist Regina José Galindo's conceptual approaches of action and inaction. Grappling with very specific histories of violence and repression in attempts to deal with the unresolved, Regina José Galindo's performances here concern themselves with permanence and impermance, confronting and reactivating the bodies of her viewers by restaging collective memory and trauma. Focusing on pieces conceived and staged in the Latin American context, this paper contextualizes Galindo's performance in Guatemala and Argentina as attempts to make sense of these histories of erasure. | Using Coco Fusco's notion of the Reconquista to read ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas? of 2003 and Reconocimiento de un cuerpo of 2008, this paper investigates performance artist Regina José Galindo's conceptual approaches of action and inaction. Grappling with very specific histories of violence and repression in attempts to deal with the unresolved, Regina José Galindo's performances here concern themselves with permanence and impermance, confronting and reactivating the bodies of her viewers by restaging collective memory and trauma. Focusing on pieces conceived and staged in the Latin American context, this paper contextualizes Galindo's performance in Guatemala and Argentina as attempts to make sense of these histories of erasure. | 37 pages
Recommended Citation
Zuniga, Jasnira Lizbeth, "Collective Memory and Performative Reconquista: Action and Inaction in the Performance Art of Regina Jose Galindo" (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2759.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2759