Con-Tact Points

Imaginary with fragile power

Abstract

This article explores touch, contact and its absence as forms and possibilities of sensibility in general and of the construction of a subjectivity and a political ethos of the body, of bodies. This reflection is made through the dialogue established by a set of artistic practices that converge in the exhibition Con Tacto. Políticas y poéticas de la tocabilidad that took place at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche in 2021. The set of works that dialogued in this exhibition operates as a questioning about the personal and social trauma that we have been going through with the covid, and about the way in which the bodies are exposed, in their touchability and in their distancing. The starting questions took shape mainly through the lived and transmitted experience of the subaltern; of the feminist, the queer, the dyke, the sick, the trans*, the black+, the migrant, the queer. Through the imagination displayed by these wild creatures, we wanted to ask ourselves about the possibility of reinventing the human figure in the very space of a broken, wounded and, ultimately, historically traversed by trauma.