FIDEX, Figures of Excess and Policy of the Body

This is a consolidated research group which includes in its foundational objectives the analysis of the generating structures of social identities, delving into the mechanisms of the body-sex-gender-sexuality as well as their tight-preset correlations to apply not only to theoretical production, but also to its artistic realization. Among its objectives is to analyse the structures that generate social identities.

Areas of research:

• (Auto)Erotic productions and representation of the teenage body in the web 2.0.
• BDSM. Sadomasochism considered as one of the Fine Arts
• Sculpture bodies and sexual practices.
• The customised body. Open and/or closed identities
• The sculptural negative and the positive: body, sex, gender and sexuality
• Mental graphics, artefacts and other forms of expression in beings outside the norm
• The materialization of the drive in artistic creation. Applied creative techniques and procedures
• Performance and activism: action and (re)action
• Dissident representations of masculinity and femininity in photography and illustration. Contaminations between feminism, cultural studies and visual studies
• Territories of desire: Approaches to a body representation as a synonym for possession and / or fetish. Pleasure games without the need for the categories of sex or gender.

Contact:

http://fidex.umh.es