Abstract

IBARRA COVARRUBIAS, Samuel. Minor scene. Artistic-cultural practices in Chile, 1990-2015, by Carolina Benavente (2018). Índex [online]. 2019, n.7, pp.252-256. ISSN 2477-9199.  https://doi.org/10.26807/cav.v0i07.198.

This text gives a performative approach to Carolina Benavente’s book Escena menor. Prácticas artístico-culturales en Chile, 1990-2015 (Minor scene. Artistic and cultural practices in Chile, 1990-2015) (2018). In order to do so, the writing of this book is situated in the Chilean posdictatorial context; the “minor” traits of artists and artistic collectives approached are interrogated; and the notion of scene occupied by the author is explored. Through the lens of performance art, scene emerges as a mixture of actuation and expectation, as the body that writes hybridizes with the body that lives in what we call an “experiential curatorship”.

Keywords : artistic scene; artistic practices; performance; minor art; contemporary art; Chilean art; post-dictatorship; Carolina Benavente.

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