Un porno propio : escena cultural, activismo y sexualidades en la pospornografía en Argentina (2011-2018)

Elizalde, Silvia

Justo, Carolina

2011-2018

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357 p.

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This thesis observes the postporn cultural scenes of Argentina as peculiar forms of articulation between art, politics and sexuality. It analyzes the specificities of cultural productions linked to postpornography in their local context during the period 2011-2018. These have been made posible by the visibility of sexual diversity in Argentina since 2011 and the proliferation of this type of cultural and political experiences in the Latin American region. It proposes a genealogy of postporn practices and productions in Argentina based on the moments of emergency, occurrence and transformation in relation to a particular sociohistorical context; in order to account for the links between these cultural experiences and the activities of sexual dissidency, alternative cultures and artistic and academic institutions. It investigates the postporn cultural scenes that emerged in different cities of the country during the period under analysis and how the DIY work modalities have functioned for the production of events, workshops and artistict productions. Likewise, this thesis analyzes the operations that have been deployed in the production of performance and video to update a queer / dissident discursiveness regarding corporalities and sexuality. Finally, the question about the affective dimension of these cultural experiences is addressed, where cultural production, activism and sex-affective affinity networks are deeply intertwined. It begins considering postpornography as an activist cultural platform in which artistic productions, DIY ways, critical discourses about sexuality and sex-affective experiences are mixed. In that sense, postporn not only produced other discursivities regarding sexuality and gender, but also promoted forms of work, articulations and alliances, modalities of action, aesthetic displacements, creative collectivizations, experiments, intimacies, affections, own spaces and relationships. This thesis seeks to relieve and analyze the deployment of postporn in the Argentine context, being this one of the most visible and belligerent artisticpolitical manifestations linked to queer / dissident activisms. We observe that the transformations that ocurred between its emergency (2011) and 2018 have been extremely fast, in line with the effervescence of the productions and practices reviewed here. Hence, the interrogation around the scope of postporn implies, in this research work, several dimensions. First, the creation of a critical discourse around pornography from the artistic languages of video and performance, as ways of updating certain notions of corporalities and sexualities from a dissenting perspective. Then, the consolidation of cultural scenes sustained from self-management, cooperative work and links with institutions. Finally, the experimentation in forms of sex-affective groupings crossed by affinities and feelings of belonging that interweave the relationships, the forms of labor, the creation of artistic work and the own subjectivity of those who put their bodies in these experiences. Likewise, in order to densely describe these experiences, this thesis investigates the conditions of social production of these cultural practices and works, considering not only the socio-political context of emergency and occurrence but also the linkage of postporn with the academy, alternative cultures, the artistic field and movements of sexual dissent. (...)

Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales

Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales