Compilation and prologue by Bárbara Hang and Agustina Muñoz

This book compiles texts by different authors and artists of the experimental performative arts. Some were specially written for the publication and others were translated into Spanish for the first time.


"The essays gathered in this book don't pretend to establish a historical canon or set up a critical-interpretative apparatus: their starting point is the contemporary performative practice and they are presented as a whole as a continuum between action and reflection. They were written by artists from a wide geographical arc (from Brazil to Norway, from the United Kingdom to Mexico, from Argentina to Serbia or Spain), who, by assuming the situated character of their interventions, deal with such urgent issues as precariousness, dissident corporealities, post-humanism, speculative imagination or the Anthropocene. These texts corroborate the fact that artists today, more than making works, invent sensitive practices that function as protocols of experimentation aimed at destabilizing the senses and disarming conventions, as an invitation to return to the body, to think from the body and with the body about relations with the world and the encounter with others."

Read the prologue here (Spanish)

Texts by Maaike Bleeker, Augusto Corrieri, Bojana Cvejić, Mette Edvardsen, Tim Etchells, Eleonora Fabião, Karin Harrasser, Adrian Heathfield, Bojana Kunst, Silvio Lang, André Lepecki, Juan Francisco Maldonado, Mariana Obersztern, Victoria Pérez Royo, Diana Szeinblum and Ana Vujanović.

Comps. Bárbara Hang y Agustina Muñoz
Caja Negra Editora, 2019
Buenos Aires

Caja Negra Editora

Compilation and prologue by Bárbara Hang and Agustina Muñoz

This book compiles texts by different authors and artists of the experimental performative arts. Some were specially written for the publication and others were translated into Spanish for the first time.


"The essays gathered in this book don't pretend to establish a historical canon or set up a critical-interpretative apparatus: their starting point is the contemporary performative practice and they are presented as a whole as a continuum between action and reflection. They were written by artists from a wide geographical arc (from Brazil to Norway, from the United Kingdom to Mexico, from Argentina to Serbia or Spain), who, by assuming the situated character of their interventions, deal with such urgent issues as precariousness, dissident corporealities, post-humanism, speculative imagination or the Anthropocene. These texts corroborate the fact that artists today, more than making works, invent sensitive practices that function as protocols of experimentation aimed at destabilizing the senses and disarming conventions, as an invitation to return to the body, to think from the body and with the body about relations with the world and the encounter with others."

Read the prologue here (Spanish)

Texts by Maaike Bleeker, Augusto Corrieri, Bojana Cvejić, Mette Edvardsen, Tim Etchells, Eleonora Fabião, Karin Harrasser, Adrian Heathfield, Bojana Kunst, Silvio Lang, André Lepecki, Juan Francisco Maldonado, Mariana Obersztern, Victoria Pérez Royo, Diana Szeinblum and Ana Vujanović.

Comps. Bárbara Hang y Agustina Muñoz
Caja Negra Editora, 2019
Buenos Aires

Caja Negra Editora