Set Fear on Fire
The Feminist Call That Set the Americas Ablaze
Published on 7. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-83976-480-6 (ISBN)
Description
After the feminist art collective LASTESIS created their performance "A Rapist in Your Path" in their native Chile, it went viral across the globe, becoming the anthem of the grassroots feminist movements in South America and around the world. This is their manifesto, an angry, unrepentant tour-de-force that moves through rage, femicide, abortion, homophobia, feminist art, and the oppression of the state to argue for a feminist world based on collective struggle and a visionary political art. Translated by Camila Valle.
Reviews / Votes
LASTESIS, the Chilean feminist performance collective, shows today how popular art can be about changing the world, not entertaining. -- Nadya Tolokonnikova * Time Magazine * This book is poetry, manifesto, collective knowledge, rage, and action. LASTESIS demonstrates that the feminist movement is not anti-intellectual, but rather redefines concepts and political theses: theory is a chant, a performance, a language embedded in bodies, and a way of collective existence. -- Veronica Gago, author of <i>Feminist International</i> Introduces LASTESIS'S angry, galvanising and feminist vision to the Global North...Set Fear on Fire transforms the readers' own patriarchal terror into feminist rage. -- Naomi Larsson Pineda * ArtReview * Poignant ... Set Fear On Fire is both its own powerful thing and part of something wider. -- Eilidh Akilade * The List *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 171 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
98 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83976-480-6 (9781839764806)
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03/2023
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LASTESIS is a feminist performance collective from Valparaiso, Chile, whose performance "A Rapist in Your Path" has been performed in over 200 countries around the world and has become an international activist anthem against gender violence and the state.