︎
︎ HOMEPAGE    NEXT WORK ︎
(MY) PALIMPSEST BODY
Francisca Elizabeth Pimentel

Santiago’s porn cinemas, Chile





(My) Palimpsest Body - PDF




‘The blooming of Santiago's porn cinemas jumbled two female figures superimposed in time: the catholic and the pornographic (for Irigaray, the prostitute); both expression of the Chilean society restraint and its quick release from the '90s, after the overthrow of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The construction of these two women converges in the definition of my own complex identity, prisoner of a hurricane of contradictory messages. My body, hidden and exposed, treasured and raped, is doubly colonised through the imposition of the Catholic religion and the patriarchal and heterosexual monopoly of the United States porn of the '70s in Chilean society.

Based on the memories of three women —the catholic, the pornographic and myself, as their intersection—, a play-script will explore the overlapping of subjectivities embodied on the porn cinema screen and my own body.’

Francisca Elizabeth Pimentel

 

 

Echoes and Intersections is a collection of site-writings produced as part of the module Critical Spatial Practice: Site-Writing across the MA Architectural History, MA Situated Practice, and MA Historic Urban Environments dgree and PhD programmes at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

The featured works take the reader through fixed spatial locations and buildings, and on temporal journeys across ambiguous lands and waters. Written simultaneously across the globe, our situated writing offers diverse perspectives and narratives on plural geographies, landscapes and cities, through pieces interwoven with multiple, intersecting threads.

Many of the works occupy edgelands, peripheries or crossing points, writing the boundaries of buildings, states or bodies. They explore homelands, homes and selves that have been deconstructed, revealed and returned to. Echoing with memories, histories and absent others, the sites written carry the voices of place and voices displaced or fragmented, which resonate through the materials of the land - mud, sand, sky and rock.

These writings can be read in any order, allowing connections to emerge differently upon each reading.

Curatorial committee: Toby Blackman, Chia-Ying Chao, Kanza Leghari, Charlotte Morgan & Rasha Saffarini. 

With thanks to Polly Gould, Jane Rendell and David Roberts.


Bloomsbury Festival 2021

In October 2021, participants from the class read from their work on Bloomsbury Radio as part of Bloomsbury Festival 2021, alongside Polly Gould, Jane Rendell, David Roberts and participants from the class of 2020.

Find the recordings on Soundcloud here.