Performative and critical genre of a capitalist structure: the work of Gabriela Rivera, Bestiario (2012-2018)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25074/actos.v3i5.2031

Keywords:

Feminism, Art, Capitalism, Gendered performances

Abstract

The artist Gabriela Rivera's piece Bestiary expresses the grotesque with a play between meat masks and performance. In a certain way, it alludes to art of the 70s which dealt in fluid, blood, and the animal from artists such as Ana Mendieta Cecilia Vicuña, Carol Schneemann and Vito Acconci. Rivera's work deals in an organic materiality, drawing on the consumption of meat to conceptually evoke performative expressions of gender. This paper will attempt to illuminate relationships between capital and gender using a feminist reading of opression

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Author Biography

  • Catalina Rayo Calderón, Universidad de Chile

    Bilingual Adjunct Professor in Universidad de Santiago in Chile. BA in Visual Arts, MA in Film Studies at Columbia University and MA in Digital Journalism. I have more than six years of experience in the cinematic and audiovisual industry.
    In the academic field, I have giving conferences in both Emory University, Atlanta and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. My MA in digital journalism thesis was published by Santo Tomas University in Chile and soon to be published again with another paper.
    I've been working also in shorts, and participated in cinema festivals.
    My interests are focused in higher education, with a preference in cinematic theory.

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Published

2021-07-29

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 5 (2021): Revista Actos

Section

Artículos

How to Cite

Performative and critical genre of a capitalist structure: the work of Gabriela Rivera, Bestiario (2012-2018). (2021). Revista Actos, 3(5), 30-41. https://doi.org/10.25074/actos.v3i5.2031