Abstract

GARBAYO-MAEZTU, Maite. Body-Camera-Eye: Presence and Intersubjectivity in the Work of the Artist Pola Weiss. Debate fem. [online]. 2020, vol.60, pp.100-126.  Epub Nov 27, 2020. ISSN 2594-066X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cieg.2594066xe.2020.60.05.

Two works by the Mexican artist Pola Weiss (1947-1990) lead us to alternative ways of conceptualizing the aesthetic from the feminine/feminized body and the subversion of subject/object relationships. Weiss’ body-camera-eye expands beyond visuality and interrupts scopic hegemony to attempt to reveal what cannot be seen. Weiss’ aesthetic proposals are linked to other case studies which, from very different places, have made the body, its materiality and its affects, central elements of the epistemic and aesthetic experience. The potential of the hysterical body, the aesthetic theory of Lee and Anstruther-Thomson, and the problem of the cultural translation of the Nahuatl term ixiptlah, show other ways of understanding images, other logics capable of reinventing the ways we look and are looked at.

Keywords : Performance; Empathy; Body; Feminist Theory; Esthetic; Intersubjectivity.

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