"Will we be able to assemble a bag of dangerous ideas as a vortex of a storm to come? An interview with val flores

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Published: Jun 30, 2023
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Activism;, militancy;, thought;, writing

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María Angélica Vega
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Laura Gutierrez
Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos
Sandra Elizabeth Mutal
val flores
Facultad de Artes de la UNC

Abstract

The thinking, the writing, and the actions of val flores –an independent researcher, writer, professor, sexual dissidence activist and performer– have served a significant part of the reflections on sex and gender over the last two decades. val flores’ research and ways of dislocating the non-communicating compartments between thinking-action and activism have become a vital contribution to our reflections that lay between words, images, teaching, comprehensive sex education (ESI) and sex-gender activism in and from South America.


Inquiring into theses intersections, Sandra Mutal, María Angélica Vega, and Laura Gutiérrez conducted a remote six-hands interview via e-mail that revolved around an alternative temporality. Against the idea that everything can and should be clairvoyance for our feminist and sex-dissident actions, val explores around a poetics of opacity as a subterranean strategy against the urgent imperatives of doing.

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Vega, M. A., Gutierrez, L., Mutal, S. E., & flores, val. (2023). "Will we be able to assemble a bag of dangerous ideas as a vortex of a storm to come? An interview with val flores. Heterotopías, 6(11), 1–14. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/41599
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Vol. 6 No. 11 (2023): "Poetics of interruption: feminist aesthetic-political practices and sexual disobedience in/from the South".
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Author Biographies

María Angélica Vega, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

She is a PhD in Literature, head of practical work in the subjects Introduction to Literature and Theory of Social Discourses I of the School of Letters of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Cordoba (FFYH.UNC). She worked as assistant professor in charge of Panoramas and contexts of aesthetic trends at the National University of La Pampa (UNLPAM). She published Construcciones discursivas de la revolución: entre formaciones discursivas de pre-dictadura y ficciones de post-dictadura (2022) and No vayas a la escuela porque San Martín te espera (2023). She directs the research team "Materiales estéticos y críticos recientes del sur en revueltas desde perspectivas feministas y descoloniales" based at the Centro de Investigación de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (CIFFYH.UNC). She is a union delegate of Letters in the union of university teachers and researchers of Córdoba (ADIUC).

Laura Gutierrez, Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos

She holds a PhD in social sciences from the UBA and is a lesbian feminist activist. She currently teaches undergraduate (UADER) and graduate (UNSAM-UNCuyo) and is an assistant researcher for CONICET at the National University of Entre Ríos (UNER). Her work addresses the intersections between sexual disobedience movements and feminisms with artistic and cultural practices and contemporary political theory and has been published in national and international journals. She is a member of the Art, Culture and Politics Group directed by Ana Longoni and co-directed by Cora Gamarnik (IIGG-UBA) and the Family, Gender and Subjectivities Studies Group (UNMdP). In 2022 she published the book Imágenes de lo posible. A discontinuous genealogy of lesbian and feminist interventions in Argentina.

Sandra Elizabeth Mutal

She graduated from the Escuela Provincial de Bellas Artes Dr. Figueroa Alcorta and from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba with a degree in Printmaking (UNC). She teaches at the Department of Visual Arts of the Faculty of Arts of the UNC. She develops research and extension projects in that institution. She was Undersecretary of Culture of the UNC; Director of the Department of Visual Arts of the Faculty of Arts of the UNC and Deputy Secretary of the union of university teachers of Córdoba (ADIUC). She has organized events of reflective artistic practice such as Intervention /Installation with the artist Juan Carlos Romero "41 years after the anniversary of the Trelew massacre"; "Art and Politics", Postgraduate Course (Prof. Ana Longoni and Luis García); University teachers' union ADIUC; "The radical political imagination", Seminar workshop given by Marcelo Expósito (Spain); Conference by Dr. Anna María Guasch (Spain) "The memory of the "Other"; in the era of the global". She is a member of artist collectives: from 1997 to 2000 Costuras Urbanas; from 2001 to 2018, the group Urbomaquia; from 2012 to the present the collective Bordamos por la Paz Córdoba; in 2022 Las Bío Diversas. She researches, works and defines her artistic production as "experiences of action and resistance as a response to so much violence", accompanying different moments of struggle in Argentina, where individual and collective disputes that confront the dominant ideology are put into play. He proposes a way of doing where the process of creation, its relationships, and its modes of circulation play a role. He thinks of the artistic experience as a situated practice. His work retakes the Benjaminian concept of montage through which new ties and meanings are built, directing the artistic action to question the social fabric. He has participated in numerous exhibitions/interventions at local, national and international level and his work is reflected in books, media, documentaries and social networks.

val flores, Facultad de Artes de la UNC

val flores (Buenos Aires, 1973). Independent researcher, writer, teacher, sexual dissidence activist and performer. Her theoretical and poetic work is situated at the crossroads between feminist and queer pedagogical practices and artistic practices, questioning writing and bodies in (dis)learning situations. She currently coordinates writing workshops in which the body becomes a seismic experience of questioning. Among her publications are: interruqciones. Essays on activist poetics (2013), El sótano de San Telmo. A proletarian barricade for lesbian desire in the '70s (2015), Tropisms of dissidence (2017), A language sewn of lightning (2019) and Breaking the heart of the world. Fugitive modes of doing theory (2021).

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