Cuir cannibalism

• In Event: Performing insurrections. Four cuir anthropophagic perspectives

Abstract

Here I want to start from the use that Rolnik already made in Anthropophagic Subjectivity, of the anthropophagic relational model developed by Andrade, as an ethical model or subjectivity, to think about the contemporary feminist subjectivity that we will place, from the Americas, between queer and cuir. I want to think about the use of the body in the feminist performances of Lygia Clark, Priscila Rezende and other emerging Latin American artists, such as the implementation of a cannibal device (Andrade) of mutation (Viveiros de Castro) that shows its power to decolonize the patriarchal unconscious (Rolnik). This is achieved by giving place to or guarding an immanent experience of the body as a field of ethical-aesthetic-political composition of a subjectivity in flight that from America can be placed between queer and cuir. The device to which I refer breaks with the dialectic proper to the dualism on which the West is founded, making impossible the dialectical movement with the Other by evidencing a relationship in an indeterminable number of levels between the features and textures of non-individualities that are composed on a plane of a plastic and changing way. Something more like a texture or a geological cut than a palace. In this sense we will return to the concept of non-dialectical heterogeneity that Cornejo Polar develops on the figure of the migrant, to think about the cultural displacements in a broad sense that feminist subjectivities are undertaking in our contemporary world.

Author

• Cristina Morales Saro