The Political Body Platform - Reflection and Performance is a training program that consisted of theoretical-practical meetings, workshops with national and international professors, exhibitions and collective actions. It was carried out between August and December 2019, in total 26 activities were carried out during the process.

Our main intention was to generate safe spaces free of discrimination for the experimentation of practices that address the body and free expression from micropolitical perspectives.

The project was funded by the Prince Claus Foundation, through the Next Generation 2019 call. It had the institutional support of Amnesty International Paraguay, the Juan de Salazar Cultural Center, Espacio E, the Arandú Saite Humanist Studies Center and the Red Against All Forms of Discrimination.

The program has been documented in writing and on video for the realization of materials (written and audiovisual) that can leave a precedent for learning and be a reflection of research.

"Consider the collective as a bodily, material and subjective instance to be trained, strengthened and re-learned, a resistance to isolation and anxiety induced through the remnants of dictatorship and colonial history."

Read the Introduction article

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Access article # 1 to learn more about the situation of human rights in Paraguay and how the Political Corps process began until its Opening event.

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Access article # 2 to learn about movement and awareness practices, talks, reflections on performance and put into action at the Art Institution in Asunción.

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Access article # 3 for reflections on the body, limits and the collective. Live between the urgent and the important, propose acts of creation to transform our ways.

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I accessed article # 4 for an approach to the therapeutic approaches of art and community work, in conjunction with UNA psychology students and the Comunidad Divino Niño.

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I accessed article # 5 for a reflection on group membership and its challenges, affective insurrections and practices, and bonding as militancy.

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Access article # 6 on managing diverse and open channels of expression in public space. Bodies, contacts and policies in Pandemic.

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theoretical - practical meetings

Práctica con Viviana Iasparra (AR)

Taller y prácticas con Viviana Iasparra (Ar) venida de Buenos Aires para compartir su técnica y filosofía. Desarrollado en el CCEJS, Asunción Oct 2019. Foto: Miguel Sandoval

Micro-performances en el IMA

Momento de intercambio de micro-performances en las instalaciones del IMA, en Asunción. Sept, 2019. Foto: Marcelo Sandoval

Costanera Conecta - cierre de Cuerpo Político

Actividad realizada en espacio público denominada Costanera Conecta, como cierre del programa Cuerpo Político. Fue co-producido con la Red Contra Toda Forma de Discriminación. Dic. 2019. Foto: Miguel Sandoval

Práctica con Viviana Iasparra (AR)

Taller y prácticas con Viviana Iasparra (Ar) venida de Buenos Aires para compartir su técnica y filosofía. Desarrollado en el CCEJS, Asunción Oct 2019. Foto: Miguel Sandoval

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This platform is developed by the Broken Vena Team (Bruno A. Comas, Sachiko Tanaka).

Project selected in the 2019 Next Generation Call of the Prince Claus Foundation.