Minor scene. Artistic-cultural practices in Chile, 1990-2015, by Carolina Benavente (2018)

Abstract

This text is a performative approach to Carolina Benavente’s book Escena menor. Prácticas artístico-culturales en Chile, 1990-2015 [Minor scene. Artistic and cultural practices in Chile, 1990-2015] (2018). In order to do so, the writing of this book is situated in the Chilean posdictatorial context; the “minor” traits of artists and artistic collectives are approached and questioned; and the notion of “scene” occupied by the author is explored. Through the lens of performance art, scene emerges as a mixture of actuation and expectation, as the body that writes hybridizes with the body that lives in what we call an “experiential curatorship”.