Line of Desire. The Work of Omar Matadamas Seen through Corporeality and the Philosophy of Event

Authors

  • Cuitláhuac Moreno Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México Postdoctoral Researcher in the Doctoral Program in Humanities UAM-Xochimilco, Ciudad de México, México Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37130/h11t1t21

Keywords:

Omar Matadamas, performance art, performance art theory, desire, queer art, philosophy of the event, homoerotic performance, Miroslava Salcido

Abstract

This article1 is shaped by a trajectory of back and forth on various topics, starting with a minimal review of the history of performance art theory in Mexico, then analysing the place of the philosophy of the event and corporeality in performance art, and finally exploring the strategies for making desire habitable through the work of the Mexican artist Omar Matadamas. In the first section, I discuss a series of ideas surrounding the implications of performance art in the current Mexican theoretical horizon; in the other pole I recur to the work of the artist Omar Matadamas and his series Sicalíptico (2017), as well as his collaboration with Grupo D3 Chok3 (“Clash Group”), to think in the proximity of politics of intimacy and desire in art created by sexual dissidents.

Author Biography

  • Cuitláhuac Moreno, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México Postdoctoral Researcher in the Doctoral Program in Humanities UAM-Xochimilco, Ciudad de México, México

    Cuitláhuac Moreno holds a PhD in Philosophy (UNAM), he is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and at the Master and PhD Programs in Philosophy, Art History, and Philosophy of Science at UNAM. Moreno has carried out a Doctoral Residency at the Université Paris 8 Saint Denis (2014-2015), and post- doctorate residencies at The Institute of Aesthetic Research/UNAM (2018-2020) and at the Humanities Doctorate of the Autonomous Metropolitan University Unidad Xochimilco. His lines of research include French Philosophy, Artistic Representation of Illness and Melancholy, and Photographic Portraiture and Visual Culture of Sexual Dissidences based in Deconstruction and Latin American Queer Thought (pensamiento marica latinoamericano). Since 2012 he has participated in the research and artistic production collective Arte+Ciencia (www.artemasciencia.org). In twelve years, the group Arte+Ciencia has organised nine international colloquia with artists and academics from all over the world, it has also presented exhibitions in prominent museums in Mexico. Cuitláhuac Moreno is a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico.

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Published

2024-06-15

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024): Theories and Practices of the Contemporary Scene in Latin America / Film and Theatre Pedagogy

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Moreno, C. (2024). Line of Desire. The Work of Omar Matadamas Seen through Corporeality and the Philosophy of Event. CONCEPT, 28(1), 33-52. https://doi.org/10.37130/h11t1t21