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Motherhood as Resistance in the Bio-Performance Analfabeta: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue Between Biology and Performance

Authors
  • Paulina Bronfman (NMAPA: Art, Performativity and Activism Research Centre)
  • Alejandra Zúñiga-Feest (Universidad Austral)

Abstract

Interdisciplinary dialogue acts as a symbiosis for all the areas that participate and imply enormous projections for both art and science. This paper explores the potential of an interdisciplinary dialogue between Biology and Performance using as a case study the Performance Analfabeta created by the artist Paulina Bronfman. The work was shaped in the context of The Third Conference of the Nucleus of Artistic Research (NIA) of In/Inter/Disciplinary Laboratories hosted by the Faculty of Art of The Pontificia University of Chile (LAB IID). The Lab was led by Chilean biologist Alejandra Zuñiga- Feest and the Brazilian artist Adriana Parente La Selva. This work aims to explore the questions: what does it mean, from the point of view of the arts and sciences, to develop an interdisciplinary laboratory? How is this done? This paper problematizes the creative process of collaboration between sciences and performance as well as the potential impact and link with society that this multidisciplinary dialogue can have.

Keywords: Latin-American Performance, Resistance, Biology, Resilience, Interdisciplinary, Chile, motherhood

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Bronfman, P. & Zúñiga-Feest, A., (2023) “Motherhood as Resistance in the Bio-Performance Analfabeta: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue Between Biology and Performance”, Documenta 41(1), 249–267. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/documenta.86319

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Published on
14 Nov 2023
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