Video documentation of Diamela Eltits keynote address, Pliegues del cuerpo: Los síntomas del poder (Folds in the Body: The Symptoms of Power), presented as a part of the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the title CORPOLÍTICAS en las Ámericas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender. Pliegues del cuerpo: Los síntomas del poder approaches the effects of the body (of certain bodies) in the political arena and in aesthetic spaces. It also posits the body as a symptom and an effect, examining the trail of power it leaves in its wake.

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