Cuerpos políticos en la zona de conflicto. Hannah Wilke o la teatralización de la feminidad en un espacio agonista

This paper raises the need to review hegemonic interpretations of questions that arise in times of political fracture within dissident groups. The artist Hannah Wilke is brought to exemplify this question and, more specifically, her reasons to produce the poster Marxism and art. Beware of Fascist Feminism are analysed. Wilke’s work is considered here as a clear illustration of how theoretical tools are not always ready to interpret the actions of the artists in their historical context. Removed from an essentialist extra-discursive perspective, proposals such as Wilke’s acquire a different sense and show the impossibility of defending a closed identity in active democratic spaces.