Feminist Performance

In this interview, Colectivo LASTESIS reflects on the history of the collective and their understanding of feminist performance as a way of expanding different feminist theories and making them more accessible. Emphasizing the centrality of the body, they speak about the importance of moving ideas through concrete bodies. This requires the capacity to deploy different dimensions of both thought and textuality, such as sound, color, and texture, as well as to connect to an archive that has resisted centuries of colonialism. In this sense, the collective locates their work within a long history of performance, making visible the continuity between multiple archives that problematize different forms of colonialism and oppression, and making legible different creative forms of resistance.