The poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of Ana Mendieta
Between the potential to and the potential not to, according to Giorgio Agamben, there is a process of a creative (poetic) act, as an act of resistance towards the end of one's own completion, in this context analyzed through the work of feminist artist Ana Mendieta. Regarding the (...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2021-01-01
|
| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2021/0350-08612102289R.pdf |
| _version_ | 1818741673770876928 |
|---|---|
| author | Rajčinovska-Pavleska Natali |
| author_facet | Rajčinovska-Pavleska Natali |
| author_sort | Rajčinovska-Pavleska Natali |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Between the potential to and the potential not to, according to Giorgio
Agamben, there is a process of a creative (poetic) act, as an act of
resistance towards the end of one's own completion, in this context analyzed
through the work of feminist artist Ana Mendieta. Regarding the
(in)completeness, Mendieta’s oeuvre exemplifies a perfect illustration that
the disappearance of her art work is a way of communication that resists
production of any formal finality, as a process within which the traces of
the media used (her own body) also disappear because of the time and
circumstances left to nature. The dematerialization of artwork in Mendieta’s
case epitomized one of possible aspects of exposing the act of resistance as
a realization of a quantum of potential through the event, appearing as a
poetics of inoperativity as defined by Agamben and erasing boundaries
between the inception and the performativity of the poetic time, a duration
that is not limited to one existence or aesthetic phenomenon. In the
intersection between early feminist art practices (based on essentialism)
and the second wave that relied on anti-essentialism as a new conception,
Mendieta's work positioned its own dialectic among the separated feminist
views about the use of the female body as a medium. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-18T02:00:22Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-4fcdf4599e704241be7bf563a1909a48 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-18T02:00:22Z |
| publishDate | 2021-01-01 |
| publisher | Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
| spelling | doaj.art-4fcdf4599e704241be7bf563a1909a482022-12-21T21:24:46ZengInstitute of Ethnography, SASA, BelgradeGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU0350-08612334-82592021-01-0169228930210.2298/GEI2102289P0350-08612102289RThe poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of Ana MendietaRajčinovska-Pavleska Natali0Faculty of Media and Communications, BelgradeBetween the potential to and the potential not to, according to Giorgio Agamben, there is a process of a creative (poetic) act, as an act of resistance towards the end of one's own completion, in this context analyzed through the work of feminist artist Ana Mendieta. Regarding the (in)completeness, Mendieta’s oeuvre exemplifies a perfect illustration that the disappearance of her art work is a way of communication that resists production of any formal finality, as a process within which the traces of the media used (her own body) also disappear because of the time and circumstances left to nature. The dematerialization of artwork in Mendieta’s case epitomized one of possible aspects of exposing the act of resistance as a realization of a quantum of potential through the event, appearing as a poetics of inoperativity as defined by Agamben and erasing boundaries between the inception and the performativity of the poetic time, a duration that is not limited to one existence or aesthetic phenomenon. In the intersection between early feminist art practices (based on essentialism) and the second wave that relied on anti-essentialism as a new conception, Mendieta's work positioned its own dialectic among the separated feminist views about the use of the female body as a medium.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2021/0350-08612102289R.pdfpotentialpoetic actact of resistanceeventdematerializationinoperativityfemale body |
| spellingShingle | Rajčinovska-Pavleska Natali The poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of Ana Mendieta Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU potential poetic act act of resistance event dematerialization inoperativity female body |
| title | The poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of Ana Mendieta |
| title_full | The poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of Ana Mendieta |
| title_fullStr | The poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of Ana Mendieta |
| title_full_unstemmed | The poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of Ana Mendieta |
| title_short | The poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of Ana Mendieta |
| title_sort | poetic act as an act of resistance in the feminist practice of ana mendieta |
| topic | potential poetic act act of resistance event dematerialization inoperativity female body |
| url | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2021/0350-08612102289R.pdf |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT rajcinovskapavleskanatali thepoeticactasanactofresistanceinthefeministpracticeofanamendieta AT rajcinovskapavleskanatali poeticactasanactofresistanceinthefeministpracticeofanamendieta |