Abstract

SINGER, Mariela. The importance of the body in performances and emerging forms of theatricality in the Buenos Aires counterculture of the 1980s. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.2, pp.522-548. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.026.

The years of the Argentine democratic opening are characterized by the deployment of a heterogeneity of experiences of performances and forms of theatricality in various centers of the Buenos Aires counterculture, which share as a distinctive aspect the interest in experimenting with corporeality. The experiences of those years renew the exploratory climate of the 1960s, which both locally and internationally gave importance to performance as a mode of artistic expression and recovered avant-garde concerns of the early twentieth century. The New York neo-avant-garde of that time is a landmark in the performative turn in the arts and the importance given to the body as a support for performances. This text addresses the role of corporeality in the performances and forms of theatricality emerging in the post-dictatorship 80s, connecting the study of this context with that of aspects of the 60s aesthetic-political context.

Keywords : Body; Performance; 80’s; Theatricality.

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