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Abstract
Contemporary artists Más Rudas Collective (MRC) were active in San Antonio, Texas, from 2009 to 2016. This essay looks to primary source documents from preceding decades and keystone exhibitions of Chicana/o art to articulate MRC’s position in a network of art production and curatorial activity that takes Chicana/o identity as a conceptual framework and/or departure point. Specific examples of MRC members’ reappropriations of Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicana/o cultural elements are analyzed and considered as “weaponizations” against cultures of body shaming and misogyny. Their approach is compared to that of other artists and curators in order to highlight the variety of identity-based and post-identity frameworks at play in the broad network of Chicana/o art and exhibition.
Recommended Citation
Franco, Josh T.. 2017. "Más Rudas Collective, 2009-2016 (An Archival Epilogue to an Epic Pachanga)." Journal of Feminist Scholarship 12 (Spring): 38-53. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol12/iss12/4
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