Affective resistance through performative drawing: case study of a feminist art-based methodology
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drawing, language, contemporary art, feminism, art-based researchAbstract
This article presents Líneas de Vida (Life Lines), an original visual art production which, from an ethical and relational perspective, examines how performance drawing can function as a shared practice of affective resistance and critical subjectivation. Aligned with feminist approaches which problematise the limits of conventional language, it employs an Art-Based Research (ABR) methodology to explore drawing as a dialogic space grounded in co-creation. As an artistic outcome, the project has generated a graphic series of ink on paper which, in August 2025, comprises over sixty works by individuals from up to eleven different nationalities.
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