Interview with María Galindo (Mujeres Creando) [videorecording]

Summary: Interview with María Galindo of Mujeres Creando, conducted by Diana Taylor as a part of the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the title CORPOLÍTICAS en las Américas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender (http://hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/2007/index.html). María Galindo is co-founder of Mujeres Creando (www.mujerescreando.org), an anarchist-feminist group created in 1992 in La Paz, Bolivia, that performs creative actions on the streets, produces videos, has its own newspaper and publishes books of poetry, feminist theory and sexuality, among other things. It is comprised of women of different cultural, social, and ethereal origins, and approaches creativity as an instrument of resistance and social participation.

Credits: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer ; Gray Wetzler, videographer.

Credits: María Galindo, interviewee ; Diana Taylor, interviewer.