Tactical Opacities. Countervisual Techniques as an Infrapolitical Strategy

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Published: 2025-02-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21134/20ttzx59
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methodologies, opacity, countervisibility, image, interview

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Andrea Corrales Devesa
Universitat Politècnica de València, SP.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0001-2063 (unauthenticated)

Abstract

This visual essay shares the partial graphic results of the artistic research ‘Critical methodologies in research #1. Dissident epistemologies, counter-visualities and opaque procedures for the practice of inter/interview’ (CAC-PALMA Prize for artistic research, 2021), specifically from the process of data analysis, resulting in the creation of the series Tactical Opacities. The concept is theoretically and methodologically framed in different experimental artistic research projects around the creation of cared and safe forms of representation and registration for marginalised and impoverished groups, both ontopistemically and visually. The proposal, contextualised in the current frame of the exploitation of surveillance devices and statistical uses of the technical image, points towards a problematization of the paradigm of visibility as inherently positive, encouraging the community of artist-researchers to contemplate the use of critical methodologies that prioritise the protection of silences and discontinuities in their research-creation processes.


 

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No. 1 (2025): «—no matter how hard you try to look straight... QUEER GESTURES, INVERTED PRACTICES AND WEIRD METHODOLOGIES. »

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MONOGRÁFICO
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Author Biography

Andrea Corrales Devesa, Universitat Politècnica de València, SP.

(she) She's PhD in Communication and Cultural Industries from the UPV, extraordinary award. Her lines of action focus on research and artistic production in dialogue with the gender perspective and contemporary feminist scenarios. She has specialized in interdisciplinary approaches to images and digital humanities, with special attention to the methodological dimension. She has participated as an artist-researcher in more than 50 exhibitions nationally and internationally, both individually and together with the performance collective Dostopías (2012-2022), in spaces such as MACBA, La Capella Centre d'Art, BEC, Hangar, CCCC, MUA, or the Antonio Saura Foundation, through competitive calls. She has published several articles in indexed journals such as Re-Visiones, Oxímora, or ASRI, and has collaborated with chapters in specialized research books, such as Sociología Feminista (Ed.Comares) or Bellas Artes y Trincheras Creativas (Edumed). She has just signed a contract with Ed.Bellaterra for the publication of a research monograph as a result of her doctoral thesis, which focused on image politics. Since 2023, Corrales has been co-founder of the Indisciplinary Network of New Materialist Feminisms with researchers from UV, CSIC, LCI-UPV, INGENIO-UPV and ICMUV-UV, and the European research network ESWORN - ESWA Research Network. She has led several projects for public administration as lead artist-researcher for Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, and Ajuntament de Palma. From 2017 to 2021 she was coordinator of interdepartmental teams of cultural projects of gender and diversity awareness for the City Council of Benicarló. She is currently developing an artistic research project and international congress in collaboration with Idensitat, La Capella Centre d'Art, and the UB in the European project CARE ECOLOGIES (Creative European Programme 2023-2025). She has university teaching experience in the classroom and online since 2022 in Degree and Master's (UNIZAR and UMH), in compulsory and elective subjects in drawing and sculpture. He has directed TFG (UNIZAR) and currently directs several TFM (UMH and VIU) and co-directs a doctoral thesis (UMH). Teacher in the IAGII training project together with Capitolina Díaz and Teresa Samper, she has taught specialized courses on the inclusion of the gender perspective in research for PI, PDI, and predoctoral and postdoctoral students. She has been involved for years in trans*feminist, LGTBIQ+, and sex worker's rights social movements.    

How to Cite

Corrales Devesa, A. (2025). Tactical Opacities. Countervisual Techniques as an Infrapolitical Strategy. ReCIA - Journal of the Arts Research Centre , 1, 133-152. https://doi.org/10.21134/20ttzx59

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