The Aesthetic Construction of the Image in Diamela Eltit’s Performance Zonas de dolor

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Mónica Barrientos

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This paper analyzes the art action titled Zonas de dolor by Diamela Eltit, produced in the eighties. These video-performances were set up in marginal locations during the Chilean dictatorship. We will analyze how the marginal space and the hurt body of the protagonist produce subjectivities that exercise political resistance in the context of extreme violence and how the spectators emancipate themselves actively to create a disaggregated community which stands proudly at the margins.

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Mónica Barrientos

Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad
de Santiago. Santiago, Chile.