Regina José Galindo

Regina José Galindo

ISBN-10: 8836619924 · ISBN-13: 978‑8836619924 · 2011

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Since 1999, the Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo (born 1974) has drawn attention to her native country's oppression of women and the poor by activating her body as a site for collective inscription. Several of her performances are extreme exercises in the deprivation of dignity: she has been publicly stunned with an electroshock gun and cleansedé with a power hose; she once commissioned a plastic surgeon to locate the imperfections on her naked body in public with a marker. In Guatemala, these actions are not so easily assigned to the symbolic realm: in a 2005 interview Galindo said, As Guatemalans, we know how to decipher any image of pain, because we have seen it all up close. This volume surveys all of Regina José Galindo's works in performance and video from 2006 to 2010.

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