Antígonas: Sentidos de una práctica artística de mujeres a propósito de crímenes de estado y militarización en Colombia

Abstract

¿How are woven the relationships between Antígonas Tribunal de Mujeres and its contexts? Does it depend solely on the content of the staging? This research begins with the compilation of some of the discourses that are currently in interaction regarding this and other artistic practices that happen at the intersection between arts and violence. From a place of political enunciation and some personal questions about the uses of the arts, I propose an analysis around the militarization processes that develop in Colombia even in the rise of discourses about peace, reconciliation, memory and reparation. There is domination and subordination in this network of meanings and practices of discursive production that affect the ways in which Antígonas Tribunal de Mujeres is understood, also, the ways in which the state violence resonate through it. The representation of women takes on a leading role here. The definition of the creators, their violence experience and their political activity in each discourse is an axis in the configuration of social realities. This is a confrontational panorama in which the goal is not necessarily to reveal what Antígonas really means. What I am looking for with this research is to see the web more clearly, to better understand the frameworks, to give rise to a conflict of meanings in which impunity is questioned and we don’t freeze in a homogenous and great story.