The podcast Vivas y Sonantes premiered a few weeks ago. as part of the Anillo Project “Gender, Biopolitics and Creation”. This is a work carried out by Paulina Bronfman, Kiry Mercado and Laura Jordán, principal researcher at CMUS.

As stated in the program’s introduction: “Over three episodes, this podcast explores the cases of Mujeres de Luto de Arica, Samba da Costa, and Aluna Tambó, cultural groups led by women in contemporary Chile, where musical and dance performance forms part of cultural and political organization. In these groups, community ties are reconfigured, traditional gender roles in music are subverted, and collective actions are generated that promote an affirmative biopolitics in the face of a system that has historically rendered women invisible, not only in the artistic and cultural spheres, but also in the social and political fabric. These performative practices, by articulating body, memory, and affect, operate as spaces of resistance and re-existence, where creation becomes a tool for imagining more just, sustainable, and supportive ways of life.”

As mentioned above, this podcast is part of the outreach activities for the research conducted by the ANID ATE 220035 Anillo Project, “Gender, Biopolitics, and Creation: New Forms of Governance of Life and Gender Relations, for New Practices, Theories, and Epistemologies.” Learn more about it on its website. official website.

All three episodes can be found on this YouTube channel.