Performing Fluid Mallorcan Identities
In this seminar artist and researcher Diana Coca will deal with the situated body, her fluid iden-tity as a Mallorcan woman (traveling for twenty years & working in different cultural contexts), connected to the memory of the civil war, and how she studies her photo performance works through these gestures and silences. Her inspiration comes from the 1960’s-1990's social movements, when the streets become a stage on which to manifest collective wills in tune with the feminist purpose of "the personal is political”, so her vision of culture is not far from politics, understood as a place of resistance, conflict and struggle within social relations fractured by divisions of class, gender and race. Her aim is to question binary notions of centre and periphery, inclusion/exclusion, majority/minority, feminine/masculine, nature/culture in order to show a female body as an expression of freedom, reappropriating of her own symbolic representation and presentation in public space.
Diana Coca is a doctoral candidate in practice-based research in the arts at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and is currently an EUTOPIA visiting scholar at the VUB with the support of the Spain Arts, Science & Culture Program from the Spanish Embassy in Belgium.
The seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, in building D.2.01 (Promotiezaal) from 4 pm to 6 pm.