Vision and Difference: Genealogies of Feminism Fall 2023

María Jose Contreras Lorenzini

"I am a performance artist-scholar from Chile currently based in New York City. My work creatively explores the relation between the body, memory, and politics. As a "daughter" of the Chilean dictatorship, my life has been marked by the aftermath of a political conflict that has shaped my community. Performance and embodied research have allowed me to approach these haunting questions in a collaborative and creative way: How can we make sense together of a traumatic past? Where in our bodies do difficult memories live? What type of art practice facilitates spaces for processing, healing, and envisioning the future together?"

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