Abstract
Reading Ana Mendieta’s Untitled: Glass on Body Imprints (1972), Cassils’s Becoming an Image (2012–present), and Cassils’s Pressed (2018) through Marxian “value theory” makes the gendered body visible as an “artifact”: a result rather than a precondition of the capitalist mode of production. In this reading, Mendieta and Cassils convey a “felt sense” of the relationship between the particularities of sensory embodied experience and the capitalist totality, where gender is produced and maintained through indirect compulsions and direct forms of violence.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 25-41 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | TDR: The Drama Review |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2023 |
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