Blanca Arias
UNA AMAZONA ÉS UNA AMANT QUE CAVALCA
Una amazona és una amant que cavalca stems from a desire to remystify/remythify the world, to re-enchant the everyday, to return speculative fabulation to the centre of revolutionary discourse. Western critical literature has considered myths as stories linked to the exercise of power due to their capacity to symbolically organise the world. We have thus allowed them to be lost in the cisheteropatriarchal and colonial machinery, nullifying polysemy and the possibility of self-representation by bodies branded as subhuman.
But what would change if we paid attention to the hidden feminist undercurrents in Eurydice’s story? Could we understand how the conflict with Medusa continues? Could we learn to look again with Cassandra? What happens when monsters explain themselves? Mythographic narratives lend a myriad tools for articulating reality-fantasy to those of us who have historically been robbed of the possibility of an imaginary of their own: the deviant, the disoriented, the queer. Faced with the imperative of becoming explicit as a forfeit for our disobedience, mythology presents itself as a space from which to articulate an archaic and collective song to life, which does not answer to the mandate of clarity and conciseness but rather to the realm of poetry and non-literality. Driven by the desire to find imaginaries that speak of us from us, to tell the stories censored by history, on this occasion I wish to follow the trail of the Amazons in the history of lesbofeminism in Catalonia and, specifically, in Barcelona.
The project has been supported by Julieta Dentone.
Blanca Arias
UNA AMAZONA ÉS UNA AMANT QUE CAVALCA
Una amazona és una amant que cavalca stems from a desire to remystify/remythify the world, to re-enchant the everyday, to return speculative fabulation to the centre of revolutionary discourse. Western critical literature has considered myths as stories linked to the exercise of power due to their capacity to symbolically organise the world. We have thus allowed them to be lost in the cisheteropatriarchal and colonial machinery, nullifying polysemy and the possibility of self-representation by bodies branded as subhuman.
But what would change if we paid attention to the hidden feminist undercurrents in Eurydice’s story? Could we understand how the conflict with Medusa continues? Could we learn to look again with Cassandra? What happens when monsters explain themselves? Mythographic narratives lend a myriad tools for articulating reality-fantasy to those of us who have historically been robbed of the possibility of an imaginary of their own: the deviant, the disoriented, the queer. Faced with the imperative of becoming explicit as a forfeit for our disobedience, mythology presents itself as a space from which to articulate an archaic and collective song to life, which does not answer to the mandate of clarity and conciseness but rather to the realm of poetry and non-literality. Driven by the desire to find imaginaries that speak of us from us, to tell the stories censored by history, on this occasion I wish to follow the trail of the Amazons in the history of lesbofeminism in Catalonia and, specifically, in Barcelona.
The project has been supported by Julieta Dentone.
