The Absent Body. Political Performance

"This book-object by Miguel Rubio about the political performances of Yuyachkani is an ACT that grants symbolic presence to the multiple absences, that makes the bodies of the disappeared VISIBLE, that constitutes an act of resistance against forgetting, as a ritual for the healing of its community, as testimony of subliminal practices that bet on art as an action and an offering for life. The artist's participation in the urgent problems of their context, fostering collective rituals, placing their artistic resources at the service of actions that seek to denounce the state of things or simply to alleviate everyday suffering; these constitute situations in which the borders between art and life, between actor, performer, and citizen, between fiction and reality, become blurred, explaining the ethical dimension of every aesthetic process or act and the realization of artistic practices as a form of social activism, beyond theater and beyond fiction." Ileana Dieguez (Back cover text of the book).