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Title: | The Oscillation of Contemporary Bodies Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Tania Bruguera’s Wrestling with Power Structures |
Authors: | Paramana, K |
Keywords: | performance;political economy;necropolitics;biopolitics;Cuba;Tate Modern;Tatlin's Whisper |
Issue Date: | 22-Dec-2023 |
Publisher: | Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
Citation: | Paramana, K. (2023) 'The Oscillation of Contemporary Bodies Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Tania Bruguera’s Wrestling with Power Structures', Filozofski Vestnik, 44 (2), pp. 265 - 285. doi: 10.3986/fv.44.2.12. Available at: https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/13586 (accessed: ). |
Abstract: | The article examines Tania Bruguera’s works 10,148,451 (2019, Tate Modern, UK) and the three versions of Tatlin’s Whisper #6 (2009 and 2014, Havana; 2015, Tate Modern). Thinking with Achille Mbembe’s work on necropolitics, Lauren Berlant’s on “slow death,” and Michel Foucault’s on biopolitics, Paramana suggests that 10,148,451 addresses the collective subject and critiques contemporary necropolitics, while the versions of Tatlin’s Whisper #6 address individuals as political subjects, and comment on the panoptic gaze and contemporary biopolitics. Through her analysis of these works, Paramana shows how Bruguera’s work is created to comment on the specific political economies in which it is presented, how the perception of the work’s politics differs when presented in different political economies, and the insights therefore the work might offer to them. Paramana argues that Bruguera’s work has often achieved more than local and national governments and that her “symbolic work with activist parameters” is surprisingly more efficacious than her activist work. The article concludes with the insights Bruguera’s work offers for the future of bodies in the 21st century. |
Description: | The DOI is not validated. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28137 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.44.2.12 |
ISSN: | 0353-4510 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCID iD: Katerina Paramana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1595-7118 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Arts and Humanities Research Papers |
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