La mirada obscena: representación del "cuerpo vulnerable" en Angélica Liddell y Elena Córdoba

Abstract

his article will show, through the work of two contemporary Spanish theatre makers, the way in which performing arts, within the field of what Lehmann named as ‘postdramatic theatre’, focus on staging diverse corporealities, especially those deemed by us as ‘unproductive bodies’. This ‘unproductive body’ will be framed under the general assumptions of ‘disability’ and ‘dysfunctionality’. Its negative connotation will serve as an umbrella term for several excluded and invisible beings, ranging from ageing bodies to women outside of their reproductive cycle or wheelchair users. By employing Judith Butler’s notion of precarity, its relation to the ideals of autonomy and its consideration as an intrinsic quality of every human being, we will outline the formal and thematical parameters under which these two authors, on the one hand, turn an ‘unproductive body’ into a ‘vulnerable body’ and, on the other hand, establish a point of relationality, of connection, with the audience.