The interdisciplinary feminist art collective of women from Valparaíso, Chile, called LASTESIS (Dafne Valdés Vargas, Paula Cometa Stange, Lea Cáceres Díaz, and Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem), is dedicated to disseminating feminist theory based on performance, specifically through an interdisciplinary language that combines performing arts, sound, graphic and textile design, history, and social sciences.
The local impact of “El Violador Eres Tu” and “Un Violador en tu Camino” (2020) led to this performance gaining international recognition, having been reproduced in more than 50 countries. In 2021, they traveled to Portugal for the first time to develop and present what was their most recent project at the time: “Resistencia o la Reivindicación de un Derecho Colectivo,” a collaborative staging in public space created in artistic residence in Valparaíso, through interdisciplinary scenic strategies.
The workshop, which resulted in a public presentation at Praça da Liberdade (Almada), seeks to translate some of the ideas of Judith Butler, Paul B. Preciado, and María Lugones through a scenic device based on the bodies and experiences of the participants. In the antagonism between repression and pleasure, death and celebration, denunciation and resistance, the performance seeks to address the demand for the right to a life free of violence in a context of colonization and active extractivism.
