Identidades performativas

Abstract

This article studies identities not as modes of identification but as a relationship with the unknown. To investigate this possibility, two projects are analyzed, distant in time but comparable by the strategies to turn the artistic space into a research medium, Lucubrations about the possible whereabouts of the living book of Xocén (2018-2021), from the cultural platform Ojo Theater, and The Ritual of the Serpent (1923), by the German art historian Aby Warburg, which will be studied from a contextual, situated and relational perspective of the performative, applied to the uses of identity images of native communities.

Keywords

• performativity
• theatricality
• arts research
• Ojo theater
• Aby Warburg