OVERFLOWING CORPORALITIES: THE POWER OF THE MONSTEROUS IN ARTISTIC PRACTICES

Abstract

As Haraway (1991) states, “[m]onsters have always defined the limits of the community in Western imaginations” (p.308), that is, they have established the border that defines (always dichotomously) the inside from the outside, the normal from the abnormal, the us from the others. In line with this, García Cortéz (1997) states that every society generates its own construction of the world, which is communicated and internalized through the configuration of a representation system considered unique and absolute. Consequently, everything that opposes this is conceived as a threat to the social order and judged as something against nature, for which it is monstrified, turned into the absolute other, and thus its exclusion is justified, and even its elimination.