The feminist revolt in Chile: Visual culture and performance

Abstract

In this paper, I analyze the visual culture that rises from the performances led by collectives of female college students during Chilean feminist strikes in 2018. From this scenario, I suggest a statement: the performativity of the feminist strikes illuminates a cultural horizon that made possible the social outburst from October 2019. To demonstrate this statement, firstly, I reveal the theoretical basis of feminist performances. And secondly, I examine the creative process that lay under one of the most significant feminist performances: YL, by Cheril Linett. Lastly, I conclude that the feminist collectives straightened during the 2018's strikes were fundamental to install a set of political demands shaped by the (new) waves of feminism in a changing contemporary Chile.