Moving Conditions: Bodies That Move Matter That Move Bodies

This project will develop the notion of ‘moving conditions’ as a critical lens through which to look at certain artworks that propose ways of ‘making bodies move’. The notion of ‘moving conditions’ relates to the physical, economic, social, and political limitations that are the body’s conditions of possibility, and the word ‘moving’ evokes the possibility to mobilize and change such conditions. Therefore, this study will be an inquiry around the ability of artworks to enable the body to mobilize its own conditions. This study is particularly interested in apparatuses such as scripts, documents, photography, and moving image, and their capacity to expand the possibilities of the moving body, beyond the human/nonhuman and object/subject binaries. This study is undertaken theoretically and historically, as well as through the art practice. Theoretically, it engages with feminist and queer epistemologies, more specifically performativity theory. Historically, it will weave a critical archive of artistic strategies produced by latin american artists dating from 20th century onwards, with a focus on utopian and feminist propositions. The art practice consists on the exercise of ‘moving conditions’ through the creation of artworks within different contexts, specifically with the aim to develop an exhibition in the medium of installation.