@Silicon womb: performatic hybridisms of female bodies
Performativity; Hybridism; Situated cognition; Female bodies; Biocybernetic body.
This research is an analysis of the hybridity of the female body with digital systems in performance works, realizing this hybridity as a place of power to problematize the meanings of “being a woman” within a patriarchal system. It is a non-dualistic approach that rejects the divisions between body/mind, emotion/cognition, nature/culture, natural/artificial, and real/virtual, and is based on the Theory of Enactivism and some authors of Digital Culture whose investigations they lead understandings about a biocybernetic body. For this, intertwining practice and theory, the author discusses the performative works of the author and female bodies that promote resignifications around themselves, in dialogue with theoretical foundations on performativity, gender, digital art, and situated cognition. This female body, which had become a hybrid, finds in the expansion of perceptions and the location of borders, forms that contribute to the subversion of a patriarchal system, giving new meaning to its “being a woman” through a cyborg becoming.