Fat body and their exuberant shapes

Fat body and their exuberant shapes: Political performing arts in times of fascism

Abstract

This article aims to present, from concerns, artistic productions and theoretical articulations, discussions that link fat bodies and their experiences in a social fabric that is sewn as aesthetically violent in the face of everything that is considered dissident, deviant and/or outside the standard. Added to other logics of oppression that cross the experience of being a Latin American woman in a Eurocentric discursive world, we seek to tension, with our experiences, experiences and powers, the plastered and rigid place in which we are situated, based on measures, metrics and weights. that sew our bodily experience. The text is articulated with images that are part of a photoperformatic project in development since the 2000s by one of the authors, seeking to articulate other ways of saying that not only the written word. We defend the importance of making fat visible as a form of political action as well. In addition to victimizing or pathologizing logics, exercising the policy of making ourselves present and speaking on behalf of these other experiences of experiencing corporeality. It is a process of constant deconstruction, which allows us to exercise reconciliation and openness to new bodily territories to inhabit.