Body/Images - Foreign/Gazes: (Feminine) Territoriality and CorpoGraphy in Latin American Graphic Narratives

在过去的二十年里，图形叙事已经成为拉丁美洲女性主义抵抗的一个突出的艺术空间。尽管漫画界仍然由男性艺术家和读者主导，但女性越来越多地使用这种媒介来质疑霸权和异性关系的社会结构和压抑的视觉效果。这种对拉丁美洲(新)殖民关系、父权制和生育权的审查发生在一个地区，该地区的历史和地理地貌以寓言式的土地和领土女性化为标志。其中许多过程都是通过压抑的视觉进行的，尤其是在漫画中，这是一种媒介，在这种媒介中，女性的身体历来受到(白人)男性的注视。然而，漫画的图形语言，由于其多模式的性质，允许对霸权视觉和文本传统的批判性但也具有讽刺和戏剧性的颠覆。这些原因表明，为什么漫画已经成为各种政治运动的一种非常有效的艺术工具，比如阿根廷的绿色浪潮抗议活动。该项目有三个方面：(A)探索出版和把关战略以及拉丁美洲妇女用来传播其图形艺术的平台，特别关注社交媒体的作用和跨国集体的形成。(B)通过广泛的档案研究，它审查了与霸权/殖民艺术传统、压制性视觉以及土著和非洲肖像建立的跨媒体对话，特别侧重于女性身体的代表和辞职。最后，(C)该项目询问这些漫画如何促进全球南方的女权主义抗议文化和政治抵抗，指出拉丁美洲在第四波女权主义中发挥的主导作用，并展示了抗议的图形形式如何成为国际上的榜样。

In the last two decades, graphic narratives have become a prominent artistic space of feminist resistance in Latin America. Although the comics scene is still dominated by male artists and readers, women are increasingly using the medium to question hegemonic and heteronormative social structures and repressive visualities. This examination of (neo)colonial relations, patriarchy, and reproductive rights in Latin America is taking place in a region whose history and geographic toponomy is marked by the allegorical 'feminization' of lands and territories. Many of these processes are carried out through repressive visualities, not least in comics, a medium where women's bodies have historically been subjected to the (White) male gaze. Nevertheless, the graphic language of comics, with its multimodal nature, allows for a critical but also ironic and playful subversion of hegemonic visual and textual traditions. These reasons indicate why comics have become a highly effective artistic tool for diverse political movements such as the Argentinean 'green wave' protests. This project has a three-fold dimension: (A) It explores the publishing and gatekeeping strategies as well as platforms Latin American women use to circulate their graphic art, paying special attention to the role of social media and to the formation of transnational collectives. (B) Through an extensive archival research, it examines the transmedial dialogues established with hegemonic/colonial art traditions, repressive visualities, and Indigenous and African iconographies, focussing especially on the representation and resignification of the female body. Finally, (C) the project asks how these comics contribute to feminist protest culture and political resistance in the Global South, pointing to the leading role that Latin America has in fourth-wave feminism and showing how the graphic forms of protest have become a role model internationally.