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</front><body><![CDATA[ <p><b>Introdu&ccedil;&atilde;o. Pol&iacute;ticas Feministas nas Artes Visuais e Performativas</b></p>     <p><b>Cristiana Pena<a href="#*1"><sup>*1</sup></a><a name="top*1"></a>, Jo&atilde;o Manuel de Oliveira<a href="#*2"><sup>*2</sup></a><a name="top*2"></a> e Teresa Furtado<a href="#*2"><sup>*3</sup></a><a name="top*3"></a></b></p>     <p>CEMRI da Universidade Aberta, Portugal; Goldsmiths, Universidade de Londres, RU / CP da Universidade do Porto, Portugal / CHAIA da Universidade de &Eacute;vora, Portugal</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>A &uacute;ltima d&eacute;cada foi bastante importante para o reconhecimento da influ&ecirc;ncia dos feminismos na arte contempor&acirc;nea j&aacute; que alguns dos museus com maior notoriedade – MoMa (Nova Iorque), Centro Pompidou (Paris), Museu de Arte Contempor&acirc;nea (Los Angeles), entre outros – albergaram exposi&ccedil;&otilde;es dedicadas a esta tem&aacute;tica e o mesmo aconteceu com algumas das principais revistas da especialidade e com publica&ccedil;&otilde;es de editoras especializadas. Apesar de terem passado mais de 40 anos sobre o in&iacute;cio duma vaga de artistas – Judy Chicago, Mary Kelly, Suzanne Lacy, Catherine Opie, Valie Export, Barbara Kruger, etc. – que produziu intencionalmente trabalho influenciado pelas pol&iacute;ticas dos movimentos feministas que invadiam as ruas e se instalavam na academia, nunca antes lhes havia sido concedido espa&ccedil;o onde as suas obras pudessem ser vistas pela generalidade dos p&uacute;blicos.</p>     <p>O feminismo p&oacute;s-estruturalista e <i>queer</i> privilegiou muitas vezes as artes visuais e performativas como meio para representar as problem&aacute;ticas relacionadas com a mulheres e com os feminismos. Como sugere Peggy Phelan (2001), as artes visuais e performativas passam a significar uma forma de a&ccedil;&atilde;o e o feminismo uma forma de linguagem, ou seja, de <i>atos de linguagem</i> atrav&eacute;s dos quais se colocam quest&otilde;es e se procede a uma revis&atilde;o de quest&otilde;es quer pol&iacute;ticas quer pessoais.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p> Durante os anos 1990 o feminismo iniciou uma fase de pol&iacute;ticas de alian&ccedil;a porque outros projetos pol&iacute;ticos, para al&eacute;m do combate contra o patriarcado e a opress&atilde;o sexista, foram inseridos na agenda feminista. Devido &agrave; crise da SIDA que estigmatizou brutalmente as comunidades LGBT em todo o mundo, as feministas viram-se confrontadas com novas realidades que contribu&iacute;ram para problematizar as pol&iacute;ticas de g&eacute;nero de uma forma mais complexa enriquecendo o debate feminista. Para al&eacute;m das quest&otilde;es relacionadas com a sexualidade e o g&eacute;nero, autoras feministas negras, latino-americanas e asi&aacute;ticas ajudaram igualmente a reconfigurar o discurso feminista trazendo para o debate uma perspetiva p&oacute;s-colonial que denunciava a hegemonia branca e ocidental do movimento. Durante este per&iacute;odo o corpo sexualizado e racializado passava a ser o lugar a partir do qual, artistas e ativistas, exclu&iacute;das pelas feministas heterossexuais brancas, passavam a falar.     <p>&Eacute; importante mencionar tamb&eacute;m a relev&acirc;ncia da teoria <i>queer</i>, em particular a publica&ccedil;&atilde;o da obra de Judith Butler (1990) que marcou toda uma linha de pensamento pelas suas propostas de reposicionamento conceptual do g&eacute;nero como performatividade e pelas implica&ccedil;&otilde;es desta posi&ccedil;&atilde;o para pensar as quest&otilde;es ligadas &agrave; sexualidade, a partir de uma perspetiva cr&iacute;tica, simultaneamente feminista e <i>queer</i>.     <p>A teoria <i>queer</i> e os estudos de g&eacute;nero trouxeram determinados grupos marginais para o centro da academia criando uma fonte de material discursivo extremamente &uacute;til para que artistas, ativistas e audi&ecirc;ncias possam, ainda hoje, falar sobre si mesmos na sua pr&oacute;pria linguagem. Um dos vocabul&aacute;rios utilizados por ativistas feministas e <i>queer</i> para reclamar direitos e visibilizar grupos exclu&iacute;dos das representa&ccedil;&otilde;es e dos discursos dominantes foram denominados por Butler de <i>&laquo;enraged public queerness happenings&raquo;</i> que poder&iacute;amos traduzir como &laquo;<i>happenings</i> p&uacute;blicos <i>queers</i> enraivecidos&raquo; (Butler, 1993: 23).</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>Dando continuidade ao debate iniciado nos anos 1970, por feministas e artistas norte-americanas e inglesas sobre o &laquo;sexo&raquo;, a sexualidade, o g&eacute;nero, a &laquo;ra&ccedil;a&raquo;/etnia, classe, p&uacute;blico/privado e reconhecendo a sua atualidade decidimos organizar este <i>dossier</i> para que as pr&aacute;ticas art&iacute;sticas, as teorias feministas, os estudos <i>queer</i> e de g&eacute;nero continuem a ser um espa&ccedil;o de questionamento, de a&ccedil;&atilde;o pol&iacute;tica e de reflex&atilde;o pessoal. Sendo assim, neste n&uacute;mero, para al&eacute;m do habitual pedido de submiss&atilde;o de artigos lan&ccedil;&aacute;mos tamb&eacute;m o desafio a artistas – Carla Cruz e Miguel Bonneville (Portugal), Emilie Jouvet (Fran&ccedil;a), Kathryn Fisher (Alemanha/ EUA) e Sophia Wallace (EUA) – que consideramos importantes por representarem uma nova gera&ccedil;&atilde;o que integra as pol&iacute;ticas feministas e <i>queer</i> no seu trabalho art&iacute;stico.</p>     <p>As artes influenciadas pelos feminismos e pelas posi&ccedil;&otilde;es <i>queer</i> aparecem assim como espa&ccedil;os de a&ccedil;&atilde;o onde a inten&ccedil;&atilde;o de intervir para transformar a sociedade patriarcal, sexista, classista, racista e homof&oacute;bica s&atilde;o um dos objetivos que artistas e coletivos t&ecirc;m quando criam ou exibem as suas obras. Uma das contribui&ccedil;&otilde;es mais relevantes do feminismo foi precisamente a elabora&ccedil;&atilde;o de instrumentos conceptuais cr&iacute;ticos e de uma pr&aacute;tica social ativista, partindo de um modo n&atilde;o dualista de pensar corpo e mente, como entidades inter-relacionadas, uma vez que os sujeitos pensam e experienciam a vida atrav&eacute;s dos seus corpos. Sendo assim, nas artes visuais, in&uacute;meras mulheres utilizaram os seus corpos como condutores de mensagens pol&iacute;ticas, cr&iacute;ticas e reivindicativas, rompendo e questionando os discursos sociais onde se constr&oacute;i a diferen&ccedil;a, a hierarquia e a domina&ccedil;&atilde;o entre os indiv&iacute;duos.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p> <img src="/img/revistas/aeq/n27/n27a02f1.jpg">     
<p>&nbsp;</p> O recente caso das Pussy Riot &eacute; perfeito para ilustrar como as pol&iacute;ticas feministas, as artes visuais e performativas podem desestabilizar as estruturas de poder institu&iacute;das (ver <a href="http://freepussyriot.org/" target="_blank">http://freepussyriot.org/</a>). Este coletivo feminista russo que usa a <i>performance</i> p&uacute;blica como meio e a cultura <i>punk/riot grrrl</i> como forma conseguiu em 2012 criar n&atilde;o s&oacute; uma ato de protesto contra a reelei&ccedil;&atilde;o fraudulenta de Vladimir Putin, a rela&ccedil;&atilde;o do Estado com a igreja Ortodoxa e a deten&ccedil;&atilde;o de v&aacute;rios/as ativistas pol&iacute;ticos como tamb&eacute;m projetar internacionalmente o feminismo como forma de a&ccedil;&atilde;o pol&iacute;tica rebelde, determinada e inconformada que consegue estremecer uma das menos democr&aacute;ticas democracias do hemisf&eacute;rio norte.</p>     <p>Neste <i>dossier</i> interessa-nos sobretudo debater a rela&ccedil;&atilde;o entre artes feministas ou <i>queer</i> e a transforma&ccedil;&atilde;o social, pol&iacute;tica e cultural, operada ao n&iacute;vel das representa&ccedil;&otilde;es de g&eacute;nero, dos corpos e das sexualidades na atualidade por considerarmos que existem determinadas pr&aacute;ticas art&iacute;sticas subversivas que s&atilde;o estigmatizadas como &laquo;abjetas&raquo; no quadro heteronormativo e consequentemente silenciadas. Os efeitos, os modos de ver, e as subjetividades facultadas aos espectadores pelas imagens, nas narrativas, nos olhares e nos espa&ccedil;os da composi&ccedil;&atilde;o produzem masculinidades, feminilidades e outras sexualidades que se constituem como lugares de resist&ecirc;ncia e desafio ao sistema esc&oacute;pico dominante e &agrave; pr&oacute;pria hierarquia de g&eacute;nero da ordem patriarcal (ver <a href="#a1">anexo Carla Cruz</a><a name="topa1"></a>).</p>     <p>Pretendemos destacar reflex&otilde;es e obras que proponham novas formas de sensibilidade e afeto; refletir sobre as categorias de masculinidade e feminilidade atrav&eacute;s de representa&ccedil;&otilde;es onde a plasticidade tecnol&oacute;gica do g&eacute;nero possibilita a constitui&ccedil;&atilde;o de multitudes de corpos que questionam os limites discursivos do sexo e da sexualidade (ver <a href="#a2">anexo Miguel Bonneville</a><a name="topa2"></a>).</p>     <p>As representa&ccedil;&otilde;es criadas sobre e por estas subculturas feministas e <i>queer</i> revelam o que Beatriz Preciado (2002, 2004) denominou como hipermodernidade <i>punk</i>, visto que denunciam os processos t&eacute;cnicos, culturais e pol&iacute;ticos atrav&eacute;s dos quais o corpo visto como objeto atinge o seu estatuto natural. Atrav&eacute;s de imagens e <i>performances</i> podemos n&atilde;o s&oacute; observar como os g&eacute;neros s&atilde;o tecnologicamente produzidos e reconhecidos como corpos e simultaneamente perceber o modo artistas feministas e <i>queer</i> criticam a domestica&ccedil;&atilde;o dos corpos e a fic&ccedil;&atilde;o  somato-pol&iacute;tica do binarismo hegem&oacute;nico de g&eacute;nero. A cria&ccedil;&atilde;o de obras conscientemente cr&iacute;ticas e conceptualmente informadas pela teoria feminista e pela teoria queer constroem outras representa&ccedil;&otilde;es com as quais p&uacute;blicos habitualmente exclu&iacute;dos conseguem estabelecer rela&ccedil;&otilde;es de identifica&ccedil;&atilde;o e empatia.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>J. Jack Halberstam (2005, 2011) introduz novas formas de pensarmos as temporalidades e geografias <i>queer</i> tal como nos convida a refletir sobre o papel da tecnologia na transforma&ccedil;&atilde;o das representa&ccedil;&otilde;es ao n&iacute;vel dos discursos visuais sobre o corpo, o g&eacute;nero e a sexualidade (ver <a href="#a3">anexo Kathryn Fisher</a><a name="topa3"></a>). Se considerarmos os desenvolvimentos ocorridos na &uacute;ltima d&eacute;cada ao n&iacute;vel dos meios de comunica&ccedil;&atilde;o, em particular das redes sociais, poderemos compreender melhor as transforma&ccedil;&otilde;es nas rela&ccedil;&otilde;es entre as pr&aacute;ticas art&iacute;sticas, as pol&iacute;ticas feministas e  <i>queer</i>, a constitui&ccedil;&atilde;o de diversos p&uacute;blicos e o aparecimento de subculturas que se v&ecirc;m representadas em discursos visuais reconfigurados.    <p>     ]]></body>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>Os textos deste <i>dossier</i> consubstanciam uma relevante contribui&ccedil;&atilde;o para esta &aacute;rea, mostrando a forma como as pol&iacute;ticas radicais do pensamento feminista polinizaram as artes contempor&acirc;neas e nos proporcionaram outras legibilidades para compreender a pr&oacute;pria teoria feminista. Este <i>dossier</i> apresenta quatro contributos vindos de v&aacute;rios pa&iacute;ses – Portugal, Reino Unido, Espanha e Fran&ccedil;a – mostrando que esta investiga&ccedil;&atilde;o sobre estes objetos de estudo ainda &eacute; incipiente no nosso pa&iacute;s. &Eacute;, contudo, importante salientar que estes contributos t&ecirc;m em comum uma aplica&ccedil;&atilde;o das teorias e movimentos feministas numa l&oacute;gica pol&iacute;tica de questionamento radical e de cr&iacute;tica que muito nos satisfaz.</p>     <p>No texto de Armando Pinho e Jo&atilde;o Manuel de Oliveira s&atilde;o tra&ccedil;adas algumas das principais coordenadas te&oacute;ricas da rela&ccedil;&atilde;o entre teorias feministas e a <i>performance</i> art&iacute;stica autobiogr&aacute;fica. Um texto de s&iacute;ntese que mostra como determinados aspetos de uma pol&iacute;tica radical feminista s&atilde;o incorporadas na <i>performance</i>. Este trabalho articula as v&aacute;rias mudan&ccedil;as dentro deste di&aacute;logo com o trabalho da <i>performer</i> Carlota Lagido, analisando o modo como a autora recorre &agrave; sua autobiografia como manancial criativo para o seu trabalho. Igualmente este texto &eacute; uma refer&ecirc;ncia importante por tra&ccedil;ar a hist&oacute;ria deste di&aacute;logo, mostrando o efeito de diferentes correntes feministas na an&aacute;lise que &eacute; feita da <i>performance</i> e nas pr&oacute;prias pr&aacute;ticas art&iacute;sticas.</p>     <p>No artigo de Giulia Casalini, a autora convoca o trabalho da artista guatemalteca Regina Jos&eacute; Galindo para entender o modo como a <i>performance</i> recorre ao trauma e ao sil&ecirc;ncio como forma de dar testemunho da viol&ecirc;ncia pol&iacute;tica. Atrav&eacute;s do recurso a obras muito significativas, quer da teoria feminista, quer da teoria cr&iacute;tica, a autora constr&oacute;i um texto que analisa o modo como o sil&ecirc;ncio &eacute; utilizado como uma importante arma no trabalho de Galindo, evidenciando o modo como a <i>performance</i> permite uma visibilidade ao que &eacute; inaud&iacute;vel ou dificilmente expresso por palavras. Assim, Regina Jos&eacute; Galindo faz da sua <i>performance</i> um modo de suscitar rea&ccedil;&otilde;es no p&uacute;blico, pela via do sil&ecirc;ncio, como maneira de ativar determinadas mem&oacute;rias traum&aacute;ticas que assim podem ser partilhadas.</p>     <p>O trabalho de Veronica Perales procede a um reposicionamento do conceito de amor. Tentando pensar o amor para l&aacute; da sua ace&ccedil;&atilde;o rom&acirc;ntica, a autora analisa o conceito em diversas fontes, aproximando-se do objeto de estudo atrav&eacute;s do ecofeminismo e da cr&iacute;tica ao antropocentrismo. A autora percorre uma s&eacute;rie de obras e de artistas, cujo trabalho &eacute; relevante para proceder a uma abertura deste conceito, reposicionando-o. Assim, esse trajeto que o texto percorre permite revisitar outras maneiras, mais livres, de pensar o amor fora dos limites impostos pelas ideologias de g&eacute;nero e do antropocentrismo hegem&oacute;nico.</p>     <p>O texto de Marie-Emilie Lorenzi foca um <i>happening</i> feminista <i>queer</i> em Lille, na Fran&ccedil;a, que envolveu a est&aacute;tua equestre de Joana d’Arc. A autora procede a uma an&aacute;lise do modo como este <i>happening</i> permite detetar linhas de fratura entre ativismos mais tradicionais LGBT e ativismos <i>queer</i>, enunciando como este happening pode ser lido a partir de diferentes posicionamentos militantes. Particularmente, a cor rosa com que a est&aacute;tua foi pintada &eacute; alvo de uma an&aacute;lise que evidencia as diferentes apropria&ccedil;&otilde;es desta cor por parte dos movimentos LGBT e <i>queer</i>. Esta an&aacute;lise aborda tamb&eacute;m a forma&ccedil;&atilde;o de um Pink Bloc, que recorrendo a pressupostos feministas <i>queer</i>, baseia a sua interven&ccedil;&atilde;o pol&iacute;tica na <i>performance</i> de rua e <i>happenings</i>.     <p>Este <i>dossier</i> refor&ccedil;a a import&acirc;ncia da investiga&ccedil;&atilde;o na &aacute;rea da arte contempor&acirc;nea sob influ&ecirc;ncia das pol&iacute;ticas feministas. Estes artigos permitem tra&ccedil;ar alguns desses percursos e entender os modos de incorpora&ccedil;&atilde;o dessas influ&ecirc;ncias.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p><b>Bibliografia</b></p>     <!-- ref --><p>Butler, Judith (1990), Gender Trouble: <i>Feminism and the subversion of identity</i>, New York, Routledge.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000034&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200001&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></p>     <!-- ref --><p>Butler, Judith (1993), &laquo;Critically queer&raquo;, <i>GLQ – Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies</i>, 1, pp. 17-31.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000036&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200002&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></p>     <!-- ref --><p>Butler, Judith (2004), <i>Undoing Gender</i>, New York, Routledge.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000038&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200003&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></p>     <!-- ref --><p>Halberstam, Judith (2005), <i>In a Queer Time and Space – Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives</i>, New York and London, New York University Press.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000040&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200004&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></p>     <!-- ref --><p>Halberstam, Judith (2011), <i>The Art of Queer Failure</i>, Durham & London, Duke University Press.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000042&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200005&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --><!-- ref -->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000043&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200006&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --><!-- ref --></i> <i>Preciado, Beatriz (2002), <i>Manifiesto Contra-Sexual</i>, Madrid, Opera Prima.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000044&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200007&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></i>     <!-- ref --><p>Preciado, Beatriz (2004), &laquo;Multitudes Queer: Notas para una pol&iacute;tica de los &laquo;Anormales&raquo;, <i>Multitudes</i>, 12.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000046&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200008&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></p>     <!-- ref --><p>Reckitt, Helena e Phellan, Peggy (2001), <i>Art and Feminism</i>, London, Phaidon.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000048&pid=S0874-5560201300010000200009&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p><b>Notas:</b></p>     <p><a href="#top*1"><sup>*1</sup></a><a name="*1"></a>&Eacute; investigadora do Centro de Estudos das Migra&ccedil;&otilde;es e das Rela&ccedil;&otilde;es Interculturais – CEMRI, da Universidade Aberta. Mestre em Estudos sobre as Mulheres e em Cultura Visual. Atualmente &eacute; doutoranda na &aacute;rea dos estudos feministas, estudos <i>queer</i> e cultura visual na Goldsmiths, Universidade de Londres.</p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p><a href="#top*2"><sup>*2</sup></a><a name="*2"></a>&Eacute; investigador em p&oacute;s-doutoramento no Centro de Psicologia da Universidade do Porto. Email: <a href="mailto:joao.m.oliveira@gmail.com">joao.m.oliveira@gmail.com</a></p>     <p><a href="#top*3"><sup>*3</sup></a><a name="*3"></a>&Eacute; videoartista. Assistente no Curso de Artes Visuais-Multim&eacute;dia, doutoranda na &aacute;rea da videoarte feminina e investigadora no Centro de Hist&oacute;ria de Arte e Investiga&ccedil;&atilde;o Art&iacute;stica da Universidade de &Eacute;vora.</p>      <p><a href="#top1"><sup>1</sup></a><a name="1"></a>The exhibition was held at the SMS Gallery – a space for contemporary art organised by L&iacute;gia Ara&atilde;o in the Archaeological Museum, Sociedade Martins Sarmento – Guimar&atilde;es, Portugal.</p>     <p><a href="#top2"><sup>2</sup></a><a name="2"></a>All My Independent Women is also the recuperation of a ‘post-feminist’ title of a song by the North American girls-band Destiny’s Child, from the 2001 album <i>Survivor</i>, which inspired the title of my project; and in spite of being titled ‘All My Independent <i>Women</i>’, the project was never an all-women show.</p>     <p><a href="#top3"><sup>3</sup></a><a name="3"></a>AMARAL, Ana Lu&iacute;sa and MACEDO, Ana Gabriela. 2005. <i>Dicion&aacute;rio da Critica Feminista</i>. Edi&ccedil;&otilde;es Afrontamento.</p>     <p><a href="#top4"><sup>4</sup></a><a name="4"></a>BARRENO, Isabel; HORTA, Maria Teresa, VELHO DA COSTA, Maria. 1994. <i>New Portuguese Letters</i>. London, Readers International.</p>     <p><a href="#top5"><sup>5</sup></a><a name="5"></a>The original NPL text, which I converted into ‘what can art do?’ reads: &laquo;My Sisters, But what can Literature do? Or rather: what can words do?&raquo; (Barreno <i>et al</i>., 1994: 210).</p>     <p><a href="#top6"><sup>6</sup></a><a name="6"></a>Amaral and Macedo, 2005: 107.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p><b>Anexos</b></p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;</p> <a href="#topa1">Carla Cruz</a><a name="a1"></a>     <p><a href="http://carlacruz.net" target="_blank">http://carlacruz.net</a></p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p><i>All My Independent Women</i></p>     <p>AMIW is an exhibition project rooted in feminist/gender debates that aspired to bring to light feminist practices under-represented in the Portuguese context. I initiated it in 2005 at the SMS Gallery – Portugal to respond, to a then, growing concern about the representation of women artists in Portuguese institutional exhibitions and collections<a href="#1"><sup>1</sup></a><a name="top1"></a>. My proposition was to organise a collective exhibition that could represent simultaneously all the artists – women and men – that somehow were part of the context of my own art production and who, through their practice, either problematise gender constructions and the hierarchy present in sexual difference, and/or work from a feminist perspective/ methodology<a href="#2"><sup>2</sup></a><a name="top2"></a>.</p>     <p>From its conception phase, AMIW had to assert itself against those who claimed the feminist political project as outdated, exaggerated, self-victimising, aggressive, man-hating, etc., and also attempt to drop some clich&eacute;s about art with feminist readings. Clich&eacute;s that demonstrate the contempt held against art with feminist constructions, denigrating its historical importance and influence on contemporary art. Thus, AMIW became a project that aims, simultaneously, to account for practices that were underrepresented and also establish a discussion about feminist practices and methodologies in the Portuguese art discourses, not only challenging the idea of feminine art – and perhaps even feminist art – but also the idea of a universal artistic subject.</p>     <p>I invited artists that had either collaborated with me in art projects or with whom I had previously exhibited, studied, and shared a studio. AMIW's goal was to make their work visible, but concurrently it built its own agenda – it problematised the feminine and masculine subjects. During its preparation I came into contact with the <i>Dicion&aacute;rio da Cr&iacute;tica Feminista</i><a href="#3"><sup>3</sup></a><a name="top3"></a>, which became the red thread of the exhibition. To each artwork one or two entries of the dictionary were assigned. The entries were used, thus, to connect different artworks but also to expand the reading and meanings of each artwork and to create paths for feminist critiques of each one. AMIW was subsequently presented six other times; taking each time a different guise and enlarging the initial group of participants. In 2006 AMIW was at 100&ordf; P&aacute;gina bookstore, Braga; at the invitation of Ana Gabriela Macedo for the launch of the <i>Dicion&aacute;rio da Cr&iacute;tica Feminista</i>. In the bookshop, with the art works closer to packed bookshelves than each other, the exhibition appears more than before as my personal collection. In the same year the show was presented at EIRA 33 Space for contemporary dance, Lisbon, at the invitation of Jo&atilde;o Manuel de Oliveira. The dance studio is based on the assembly room of a fire station, and the exhibition coexisted during a month with different Eira 33’s rehearsals. In 2007, at the invitation of its cultural director Ant&oacute;nia Serra, AMIW travels with a small delegation of eleven artists to Casa da Cultura da Trofa; occupying the exhibition space but also the toilets and the Internet room. Every single time the show was supported by the good will of the participants (and friends), that lent equipment to display the works, transported them to the different venues, and most of the times produced new work without any monetary compensation. AMIW comes back in 2010, reading the New Portuguese Letters<a href="#4"><sup>4</sup></a><a name="top4"></a> and with a stronger awareness of itself and its role by asking, as the NPL authors did, ‘what can art do?’, in so doing raising broader political questions regarding the relationship of artistic practices and feminism<a href="#5"><sup>5</sup></a><a name="top5"></a>. But it was only in its aftermath, through the preparation of the 2011 <i>AMIW – Or Rather, What Can Words Do?</i> at the Austrian Association of Women Artist (VBK&Ouml;) in Vienna, and more aware that the author’s of the NPL had – much ahead of their time – contributed to the dissolution of the ‘eternal’ myth of individual artistic genius, that a key concern of AMIW was challenged: visibility. This year, 2012, it is presented at the Women's Art Library, London focusing on alternative modes of distribution and preservation of art works.</p>     <p>Visibility was a central question when I initiated AMIW in 2005; especially at the time by acknowledging that a latent type of discrimination was in operation in the Portuguese art world: ‘glass ceiling’ – or invisibility. The term concerns the &laquo;barriers women in intermediate command positions are faced with and that obstruct their rise to positions of leadership&raquo;<a href="#6"><sup>6</sup></a><a name="top6"></a>, and for AMIW it meant the muddy waters of the progression of women artists’ careers. I felt I needed to contribute to the inscription of the works I chose for the exhibition in the art world and consequently to name the artists and inscribe them in the visible. I hoped, we would change the unequal gender ratio in the arts. It was only after  AMIW 2010 instantiation that the prospect of our feminist discourses being peacefully absorbed by the mainstream art discourse, without bringing any real change, became manifest. I began to reflect on the following question: Visibility, yes! But in which ‘archive’? Thus, in 2011 I asked, what does it mean to want to inscribe feminist art practices in the ‘visible’ art arena, knowing that the very constructions of what is render visible and what is not, is what we actually need to figure out?</p>     <p>Today AMIW continues to revise its aims and tactics. For this it needs to experiment with modes of engaging, not only with those people/venues in partnership with us, but also with broader audiences – crossing our network with others, expanding its reach and focus – experimenting with (re)presentation formats. Needing to be a platform for the artists in its network to express themselves through their practices, AMIW needs to open up its production processes to even more collaborative modes of working, where the renunciation of the isolation of individual practices in favour of a collective endeavour has to be reaffirmed again and again. Simultaneously, the affirmation of the network instead of its individuals, without alienating their singularity, has to be brought to practice.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p> <a href="#topa2">Miguel Bonneville</a><a name="a2"></a>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.miguelbonneville.com/" target="_blank">http://www.miguelbonneville.com/</a></p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>Notas sobre porque &eacute; que eu sou feminista.</p>     <p>Notas sobre porque &eacute; que o meu trabalho &eacute; feminista.</p>     <p>1. Tradi&ccedil;&atilde;o.</p>     <p>Kronos castrou o pai, Urano. Zeus cortou Kronos, seu pai, em mil peda&ccedil;os. &Eacute;dipo matou o pai. Certo. Mas eu n&atilde;o quis matar o pai porque desejava ficar com a m&atilde;e. Nessa idade, se eu quisesse, a m&atilde;e j&aacute; era minha. Mas o que eu desejava era ser a m&atilde;e, para poder acabar com o pai. &Eacute;dipo transforma-se na m&atilde;e. &Eacute;dipo transexual comete o parric&iacute;dio a solo e com testemunhas.</p>     <p>2. Abandono e Viola&ccedil;&atilde;o.</p>     <p>Desde muito cedo fiquei a saber, por experi&ecirc;ncia pr&oacute;pria, que os homens de quem estamos pr&oacute;ximos, ou nos abandonam, ou nos violam. Se regressam &eacute; s&oacute; para nos torturar.</p>     <p>3. Barbie</p>     <p>Ao contr&aacute;rio do que se possa pensar, para mim, a Barbie era o modelo da mulher independente. Ela era a dona da casa, do carro, dos cavalos e das roupas. N&atilde;o tinha que dar satisfa&ccedil;&otilde;es a ningu&eacute;m. Era loira e estava sozinha como a minha m&atilde;e. E se era como a minha m&atilde;e, era uma sobrevivente. Aguentaria tudo.</p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>4. Bissexualidade.</p>     <p>Aos nove anos: depois de me ter apaixonado por todas as raparigas da turma, apaixonei-me pelo James. Tinha um cora&ccedil;&atilde;o de papel com o nome dele. Aos nove anos: tornei-me melhor amigo de dois rapazes que gostavam da mesma rapariga que eu – uma esp&eacute;cie de quadrado amoroso. Aos nove anos: as sess&otilde;es de masturba&ccedil;&atilde;o com o A. Aos nove anos: percebi que podia gostar de quem eu quisesse, independentemente do resto.</p>     <p>5. Androginia.</p>     <p>Aos dez ou onze anos: &agrave; ida para a escola havia um arrumador de carros que me perguntava: &eacute;s menino ou &eacute;s menina? Nunca usei o cabelo comprido, mas sempre tive mamas. Um rapaz na escola perguntou-me porque &eacute; que eu tinha mamas. E nessa altura usava uns botins com um bocado de salto, que eu adorava. Ao sair da escola uma vez ouvi atr&aacute;s de mim: olha para a forma de andar deste mi&uacute;do. O que &eacute; que eles me queriam dizer? Que ser como uma mulher era ser-se fraco?</p>     <p>6. Marguerite Duras</p>     <p>Aos quinze anos partilhei o meu di&aacute;rio e disseram-me: tens que ler Duras. E eu li Duras. E nunca mais parei de ler Duras. A Duras que dizia: n&atilde;o vale a pena. A Duras que dizia que: ‘antes de serem canalizadores ou escritores ou taxistas ou desempregados ou jornalistas, antes de tudo, homens s&atilde;o homens. Quer sejam heterossexuais ou homossexuais. A &uacute;nica diferen&ccedil;a &eacute; que h&aacute; uns que nos recordam disso assim que os conhecemos, enquanto outros esperam um bocadinho.’. E se algu&eacute;m neuroticamente encarnou Duras, durante muito tempo, fui eu.</p>     <p>7. 1970s</p>     <p>Obsess&atilde;o pela d&eacute;cada anterior &agrave; do meu nascimento. Os anos da explos&atilde;o da performance. Performances feministas que trabalhavam a autobiografia, o corpo, o g&eacute;nero, a sexualidade, a intimidade. A performance como destruidora das estruturas conservadoras, do poder. A performance como procura da liberdade. A procura de uma presen&ccedil;a real sem intermedi&aacute;rios.</p>     <p>8. Simone de Beauvoir</p>     <p>Encontro absolutamente fulcral com a obra de Simone de Beauvoir. Encontro que transformou por completo as minhas no&ccedil;&otilde;es de politica e de feminismo. Transformou no sentido de desvendar todos os meus pensamentos e todas as minhas ang&uacute;stias, no sentido de eu poder dizer: tudo isso que escreves &eacute; aquilo que eu penso, mas que nunca tive a clareza de perceber completamente. A sensa&ccedil;&atilde;o de n&atilde;o estar sozinho. A sensa&ccedil;&atilde;o de ter havido algu&eacute;m capaz de descrever detalhadamente, de viver detalhadamente, aquilo que eu vivi. Com todas as suas qualidades e todos os seus defeitos, Simone de Beauvoir, sim, a respons&aacute;vel pela minha consciencializa&ccedil;&atilde;o politica, filos&oacute;fica, social.</p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>9. Feminismo Radical</p>     <p>Durante uma conferencia sobre as feministas durante a ditadura em Portugal, comecei a perceber que essas mulheres s&atilde;o muito diferentes, e est&atilde;o muito longe, do que eu imaginei que elas poderiam ser. Os cabelos armados, os fatos impec&aacute;veis, os discursos modernos e a exalta&ccedil;&atilde;o dos seus casamentos duradouros, fizeram-me notar que talvez eu seja muito mais radical do que elas. Abolir o  patriarcado, sim. Acentuar as diferen&ccedil;as, sim. Exterminar a opress&atilde;o baseada na ra&ccedil;a, no g&eacute;nero, na classe social, na orienta&ccedil;&atilde;o sexual, sim.</p>     <p>O pessoal &eacute; pol&iacute;tico.</p>     <p>Miguel Bonneville</p>     <p>Dezembro 2012</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p> <a href="#topa3">Kathryn Fisher</a><a name="a3"></a>     <p><a href="http://www.alfabus.us" target="_blank">www.alfabus.us</a></p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>ALIVEness</p>     <p><i>Being physically apart is not so very different from what it’s like to be together. –This is how we generations are learning to understand love and sex, community and communication. And yet we are still yearning, still urgently tearing and needing the physical, the visceral, the sex. The blood even.</i></p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>></p>     <p><i>ALIVEness</i>. To what extent are we alive in each other’s lives – physically, emotionally, electronically, living or dead – taking into account our contemporary context of virtual interaction, shape-shifting and poly-physical interpretations of our own identities? What does it mean to be present when the terms of our own existence are relative to how we interact physically and virtually with those most close to us? This is our exploration and praxis.</p>     <p><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>I began to think about how a sense of ALIVEness – the extent to which we envision someone or something to be &laquo;alive in our lives&raquo; – does not always have to do with physical death. In other words, ALIVEness is irrespective of the location of a person’s physical aliveness in time. Nor does ALIVEness have to do with physical distance; it is irrespective of the location of a person in space. Since my father’s death, one thing has changed radically – I think about him almost every day and I have spent a considerable amount of time writing about him and even writing to him. To compare, some other relationships with people who are physically alive nevertheless feel distant, remote, waning. We often speak of how if we lived closer, organized more coffee dates, telephones more, Skyped more, if were online more, our relationship would be different. We have put the onus of our ALIVEness (in each other’s lives) on details of measurement like time and distance. But a relationship of ALIVEness is about envisioning. It is something that cannot quite be touched (and yet also yearns for physical touch).</p>     <p>Our digital contemporary is theoretically helping us to develop an advanced sense of ALIVEness: It is helping us to break down imagined borders; to challenge our obsession with measurement; to view each other as wildly unique  and yet unified. We see distant lands on television – they become less mysterious and more ALIVE. We see people protesting in streets far away – we perhaps can imagine that they are down the block from us, that they are our neighbors and friends (read: more ALIVE). Our digital age is challenging our terms of measurement – it is making everything seem closer and the world seem smaller; it is bringing to light the illusion of time and space. This is the obvious. But the less obvious is that it is pushing us to think BEYOND measurement – to transgress measurement – and ideally, to develop a new imagination of unity and expand our notion of immediate community. Still it seems that the digital age cannot push us as far as we need to go – to a place where everyone and everything is ALIVE to us, so much so that we cannot help but to think of each other with respect and inclusion in our sense of community. What short of the power of our own mental imagination – a flip of the mental switch – will help us to take what we learn virtually into real life practice?</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>Our contemporary digital context presents to us more tangibly the kind of &laquo;sociological imagination&raquo; that CW Mills envisions; it presents to us new possibilities for ALIVEness that don’t seem so obvious. Can an Afghani farmer be more ALIVE to me because he is, theoretically, my friend on Facebook? Will the virtual relationship help me to care more about the potentiality of his death if I get to know him? Will it motivate me to fight for his life? What about Nationalism? Will a virtual global world help me to broaden my ideas of neighbor and compatriot and put less importance on PLACE and BIRTHRIGHT? How can it help to us to imagine how our bodies as linked to each other when they are not about PLACE but rather about imagined place? Will the CLOUD begin to push us to understand our data, our memories, our histories, our families as more similar than distinct? Will a collective memory that’s created in the &laquo;Tweetosphere&raquo; help me to lose a sense of ego and gather a more collective consciousness of memory (can all memories be &laquo;my memories&raquo;)? Will it help me to mourn the loss of life due to structural and direct violence in a more empathetic way, thereby making us all better activists? Will it strengthen our sense of urgency, not just about keeping our own families safe and healthy, but about keeping our global families safe and healthy? Can virtual sex help me to imagine a body with multiple genitalia – will it help me to reimagine my lover’s body when we’re having sex in the physical and help her feel more complete in the body that she has; will it help me to dissolve the imagined limitations of my own body?</p>     <p>The practice of ALIVEness is directly related to queer identity because queer pioneers and the practice of queer sex itself has already asked some of the essential questions of ALIVEness: Is our hand not so very different from our cock? Is our cock not so very different from our cunt? These associations may seem at first sight to be far-fetched, especially for those who do not think of their bodies or identities as queer. But if queers are willing to imagine bodies as poly-singular, there is no body that cannot or should not be included; we all have queer bodies.</p>     <p>And we can’t stop there. Queer identity is about much more than just sex and/or how we decorate or manipulate our gendered bodies. If we have already asked the question, <i>is our hand not so very different from our cunt?</i>, we can just as easily pose the question, <i>is this place on earth (&laquo;my birth land) not so very different from another place on earth (&laquo;your&raquo; birth land)? Is &laquo;my&raquo; mother tongue not so very different from &laquo;your&raquo; mother tongue? Is &laquo;my&raquo; memory not so very different from &laquo;your&raquo; memory?</i></p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>Moreover, our technological practice is already providing the framework for throwing off the internalized sense of our bodies as bordered (by gender, by physical ability, between self and other), and many of us, even without knowing it, have jumped in with our whole bodies and our minds as we take on our various avatars and pseudonyms. The missing link is how we can carry this &laquo;queer envisioning&raquo; into transformative daily practice in real life.</p>     <p>ALIVEness asks to queer our relationship with the global community. It asks us to discard the binary borders of here or there, illegal or legal, compatriot or foreigner, my language or yours, even alive or dead. ALIVEness is a theoretical bridge, a point of inclusion that imagines all of us as queer bodies and all of our sexualities as queer sexualities. It imagines all of our ethnicities as queer ethnicities; our origins as queer origins; our birth places and our socio-economic classes as queer – because they are built on complicated webs of multiple factors and interwoven stories. We are all singular (unique) – but we are part of one queer body. How can we internalize this?</p>     <p>Our technological context provides us with the possibility to envision and even create new types of bodies – transgendered bodies, multi-sexed bodies, bodies with multiple and mixed genitalia. Some of us are encountering and learning new ways of queering our sexual lives with these new physical and virtual bodies. ALIVEness takes us beyond where technology assists – to a place where we envision multigendered bodies and multisexual bodies without having to &laquo;see them&raquo; or even &laquo;virtually experience them.&raquo; Put another way, we can think in terms of methodologies: medical sciences allow us to &laquo;see in waking life&raquo; our bodies differently by manipulating them physically. Computer sciences allow us to &laquo;virtually see&raquo; our bodies differently by manipulating them virtually. ALIVEness – a mental practice of transformative action – takes us beyond seeing and into the realm of imagination.</p>     <p>In the poly queer world that many of us are in the process of defining and understanding increasingly day by day, we are beginning to understand this realm of imagination: man is not man, woman is not woman, husband is not husband, girlfriend is not girlfriend and boy is not girl is not trans is not homogenous is not homosexual. We queers are dealing with a new idea of &laquo;multiple&raquo; that is beyond poly-gendered or poly-sexual. This multiplicity sublimates the ego and allows for transformative and revolutionary thinking on a personal and political level. It is a queering of our bodies personally and invites the possibility of queering all our bodies globally. That is, me is not me, it is you; American is not  American it is Afghani, birthplace is not birthplace is not foreign space is not unknown. Your violence is my violence is our violence.</p>     <p>Practice of ALIVEness queers our entire identity, including imagined borders between bodies. In this new envisioning – beyond vision – we can imagine global community without having to be everyone’s friend on Facebook. We can imagine a global consciousness without having to identify it as a trend on Twitter. We can imagine stories which are not our &laquo;own.&raquo; We can possess the knowledge of starvation, repression and poverty without experiencing those things directly and use this knowledge as motivation for action. This is a flip of the imagination but it is nothing short of revolutionary.</p>     <p>The fact is, however, we are still living in a transitional time. Even within radical queer communities, we still do not always make the link between revolutionary sex and revolutionary global identities. We are still concerned with questions of semantics – understandably – about whether a person is or is not gay, trans, he, she or them. How closely do we pass or not pass? What are the terms of our bodies, how do we/should we manipulate them? What shall we wear on them? How do we subvert them? We are still looking to the visual to understand how to transgress our own bodies.</p>     <p>We are still not beyond measurement and we still long to see and touch what we believe in: the multiplicity of our lovers’ gender; the nearness of our families, the tangibility of things and people and music of the past. Technology aids us in &laquo;seeing&raquo; and &laquo;touching&raquo; those things and concepts (though we understand them as virtual, virtual feels so REAL). Technology is aiding us in our need to see. What we haven’t moved yet into is beyond seeing. In our transitional time, we are, on the one hand, understanding and seeing the possibilities for a new imagination because of the very tools that we have created. On the other hand, we are still stuck in the human – the need for real world touch. To see in order to believe, to touch in order to feel, to measure in order to feel certain.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>ALIVEness is tantamount to queering our global identities because it unites our bodies as queer and links us as one queer body through time and space. Is a mental future wherein which we trust and feel our wider community, where everyone is ALIVE to us in an urgent sense – not because we see them on TV, not because they are our friends on Facebook, but because we know it to be true, because we mentally have tapped our own power to see ourselves as everyone else. ALIVEness is lived and understood through a &laquo;body of flesh and body of knowledge&raquo; These bodies relate to each other out of limitation and freedom – the intellectual limitation of how we understand and experience our body as contained within its own flesh and yet the yearning for a freedom which will allow us to relate as unbounded BODIES of flesh and one BODY of humanity.</p>     <p>Kathryn Fischer aka Mad Kate</p>      ]]></body>
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