Cuerpo performático, territorio de actoría social.

Abstract

The present work proposes a look or call for attention towards performative body as a territory of political action, from a theoretical journey sustained in professional practice as a performing artist and, performer, in the networks of local and regional artists and, creators, and; in the political and poetic reflections of the author. It starts from a bibliographic investigation thar allows locating the corporal narratives developed under the paradigm of modernity and its free market system; address the individuation of the body, and; control devices and current self-regulation as ways to limit and tame the bodily experience and its performance power. In a second moment, it reflects on performativity as a trigger that turns art into action and the body into presence, proposing action and contemplation as a meeting between the artist´s performance and the public. Finally, the exercise “Postcards from the corners” is proposed, a meeting between artists from Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru who, from their practice and relationships with the body and performance, agree to share an intimate, poetic and political reflection that gives work a closeness to creation.