Video documentation of Diamela Eltits keynote address, Pliegues del cuerpo: Los síntomas del poder (Folds in the Body: The Symptoms of Power), presented as a part of the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the title CORPOLÍTICAS en las Ámericas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender. Pliegues del cuerpo: Los síntomas del poder approaches the effects of the body (of certain bodies) in the political arena and in aesthetic spaces. It also posits the body as a symptom and an effect, examining the trail of power it leaves in its wake. Diamela Eltit is a Chilean writer. She studied literature at the Universidad Católica de Chile and at the Universidad de Chile. She is a founding member of the interdisciplinary group CADA.
Diamela Eltit Keynote: Pliegues del cuerpo (2007)
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- Title: Diamela Eltit Keynote: Pliegues del cuerpo
- Alternate Title: Folds in the Body
- Holdings: video (HIDVL)
- Duration: 01:16:19
- Language: Spanish
- Date: 15 June 2007
- Location: Address given in Buenos Aires (auditorium, Buenos Aires Design), Argentina, on June 15, 2007, as part of the Sixth Annual Hemispheric Institute Seminar entitled Corpolíticas en las Ámericas / Body Politics in the Americas : formations of race, class and gender.
- Type-Format: lecture
- Cast: Diamela Eltit, keynote speaker.
- Credits: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer ; Diamela Eltit, creator ; Sylvia Molloy, introducer ; Thomas Duc, videographer.
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