BETTER A CABRONA THAN PRETTY

Listening as an intersubjective practice in the project "Las 7 cabronas e invisibles de Tepito" by Mireia Sallarès

Abstract

In this article, I analyse how Mireia Sallarès’s project “Las 7 cabronas e invisibles de Tepito” breaks with ocular-centrism and brings about the appearance of perception and listening, thus proposing that a form of looking be exchanged for a form of feeling. Following a journey along other routes for the learning and building of knowledge, I propose the imagining of epistemic alternatives, based on intersubjectivity and the affects. The act of listening becomes an attempt at loving the other, as well as their language and its untranslatability, and it urges us to imagine spaces of knowledge intersected with feminist and decolonial practices.