Orizzonti biopolitici nelle azioni performative di Marina Abramović e Regina José Galindo

This essay aims to analyse some of the most relevant performances by Marina Abramović and Regina José Galindo, taking into account the concepts developed by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben about the modern biopolitical condition: e.g., Bare Life, Camp, Sovereign Power. On the one hand, the essay highlights Abramović’s questioning of the status of the artist, in her dialogue with the public, whithin a specifically created ‘state of exception’; on the other hand, it analyses the aesthetic modes with which Galindo witnesses the bloody past and the dramatic present of her country, Guatemala, in which the ‘state of exception’ is the norm.