Performance-research strategies between anthropology, art and feminist activism

Abstract

Our objective is to analyze a series of methodological strategies based on performance, developed between 2016-2017 by a group coordinated by the author. These transdisciplinary strategies were elaborated to collectively research violent experiences lived mainly by women and, from these genealogies, activate micropolitical powers of re-existence. In particular, we focus on how these methodologies were inspired by our records of performative expressions and stories of feminist activists around the Ni Una Menos movement against gender violence, which began in 2015 in the Buenos Aires city, Argentina. We highlight the main epistemological and political contributions of these experimental methodologies unfolded in a still heterodox territory, in which anthropological research intersects with artistic creation and political activism. In this way, we try to expand our modes of knowledge and active engagement with the debates and disputes of the social context in which we participate.

Keywords:
women; violence; re-existence; performance