The artistic, interdisciplinary and feminist 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” (The Rapist Is You) and “Un Violador en tu Camino” (A Rapist on Your Path) (2020) has led to this performance gaining international repercussions, having been reproduced in more than 50 countries. They are now traveling to Portugal for the first time to develop and present their latest project: “Resistencia o la Reivindicación de un Derecho Colectivo” (Resistance or the Claiming of a Collective Right), a collaborative performance in public space created during an artistic residency in Valparaíso, using interdisciplinary scenic strategies.
The workshop, which will result in a public performance at Praça da Liberdade (Almada), seeks to translate some of the ideas of Judith Butler, Paul B. Preciado and María Lugones. 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 claim to the right to a life free of violence in a context of colonization and active extractivism.
