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Latin American Women Perform

Diana Taylor, Alexei Taylor, Authors
Activism, page 6 of 10

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Mária Galindo, Mujeres Creando (Bolivia)

María Galindo is co-founder of Mujeres Creando (www.mujerescreando.org), an anarchist-feminist group created in 1992 in La Paz, Bolivia, that performs creative actions on the streets, produces videos, has its own newspaper and publishes books of poetry, feminist theory and sexuality, among other things. Mujeres Creando started as a collaboration between Maria Galindo, Julieta Paredes, and Mónica Mendoza.  It is comprised of women of different cultural, social, and ethereal origins, and approaches creativity as an instrument of resistance and social participation. The group, which considers itself a political and artistic 'movement' broke with all established power players--the leftist progressives, the Church, and the NGOs who they considered handmaidens of neoliberalism.  Self-exiled in this manner, they took their interventions to the streets where graffiti and activist interventions became their preferred mode of work.  The group split into Mujeres Creando (directed by Maria Galindo)and Comunidad Mujeres Creando Comunidad (organized by Julierta Paredes) in the 2000s.

Interview with María Galindo of Mujeres Creando, conducted by Diana Taylor 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 Américas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender (http://hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/2007/index.html).   View the video

For the encuentro, Mujeres Creando presented a manifesto of a radically separate, non-aligned art practice (Verbo hecho carne) using the street and graffiti as their main instruments for social intervention. View the video

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