Saskia Calderón: performance as an artivist platform

Abstract

The effervescence of artivisms, in the last years, after their importance back in the decades of the '60s and' 70s of the last century, takes place, within a global context where questioning about the efficiency of art in the face of themes such as social sustainability and the pressing problems of gender, race, territory, populism and pandemics. In this framework, the work of the Ecuadorian performer Saskia Calderón constitutes a unique case of what a proposal that stands as a “Trojan horse” can be. The text underlines the atypical nature of her work within a setting that has been reluctant to make performance visible. Her practice is articulated as a situated work, due to the pertinence of her methods and the subtlety of her approach as civic artivism.