During the 80s, part of the protest actions of the artist and activist Mónica Echeverría (1920) and the group “Mujeres por la Vida” used humor as a rhetorical device to articulate an aesthetic-political discourse against the chilean civic-military dictatorship. This article studies how the criticism and activism of these women constituted a double transgression that transcended their initial motivation as it faced the principles of division and hierarchy of the sexes and introduced a break in the cultural limit between public life and private experience. Considering some of its repertoires, the tactical use of laughter is reflected as an art of the weak that enables the skillful conjugation between knowing, doing and knowing how to say as an against hegemonic and anti-patriarchal form of expression, and as an instrument to think about other languages of action and political resistance nowadays.
Keywords:
Mónica Echeverría, Mujeres por la Vida, humor, political activism.
Muñoz Briones, C. (2019). Mocking power: resistance and transgression to the double civic-military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990). Nomadías, (27), 123–141. Retrieved from https://revistateoriadelarte.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/54378
