Resumen de Fearless Art in the Age of Fear: Electronic Disturbance Theater's Parrhesian Gestures

Ricardo Domínguez Llosa

• At the core of the performative matrix of Electronic Disturbance Theater 1.0 and 2.0 has been the parrhesian gesture. While Foucault�s analysis focuses mainly on parrhesia as �fearless speech,� our work has and does explore fearless art. Our parrhesian gestures create an art that is not concerned directly with the �care of the oneself,� but instead focuses on the care of the social, of the public agora, or what is left of it under the signs of neo-liberalism(s)�almost total privatization of life and the spaces of life. While the parrhesiastes� courage places them in danger and even at risk of death for speaking the truth to power, the parrhesian gesture of fearless art creates a space for power to speak the un-truth of its uncaring condition for all social-selves.