“Son o se hacen”: performance poética y performance de género en Belleza y Felicidad

Abstract

By the end of the nineties, Belleza y Felicidad emerged as a multidisciplinary project whose characteristics –types of edition and distribution, use of the gallery as a kind of crossroads where artists from different disciplines converged, practices of de-generation applied both on the literary genres and the sexual identities, punk style, performances and poems conceived for their public execution- indicate a shift of paradigm in regard to the modern tradition centered in the idea of “oeuvre” (Laddaga 2006). This paper reads the many possible links that take place within the Belleza y Felicidad project between poetic performance and genre performance (Butler 2007), and the way these modify the conception of poetic discourse, which can no longer be considered only in relation to the literary field, but needs to be situated amongst the broader exchanges of a community of artists in which the emphasis is placed in the “making” rather than in the final product.