Ramita seca, tu corazón

performance, fabulación y experiencia drag latina-americana en Bartolina Xixa

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i23.62231

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the performances of the Argentinian drag queen Bartolina Xixa, an artist who calls herself a diverse drag queen, based on the observation of two of her videos: Ramita Seca: La colonialidad permanent (2019) and BARTOLINA XIXA (2019). We interrogate the ways in which the artist's experience constitutes an important shift in relation to entertainer drag queens, by claiming processes of territorialization and deterritorialization that emerge in her performances and concern her relationship with different aspects of her experience in the world: the geographic origin, on the border between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile; the binarity inscribed in traditional Andean cultures and the updating of colonial logics in Latin America. In dialogue mainly with La Fountain-Stokes (2011; 2021), Hartman (2008), Taylor (2013), Comolli (2008) and Brasil (2011), we seek to identify dimensions of fabulation in Bartolina Xixa's artistic practices, inscribed in her performances and in the mise en scène of the videos, that claim a marica & chola existence, politically questioning the imaginary of white Argentina, the ethnic erasure of the region's black and indigenous populations and the very idea of ​​what a drag queen performance is.

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Pedro Henrique Andrade, School of Advertising and Marketing

PhD student in Communication and Consumer Practices at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (PPGCOM ESPM), scholarship holder of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), member of the research group Sense - Communication, consumption, image and experience (CNPq/ESPM).

Gabriela Machado Ramos de Almeida, School of Advertising and Marketing

PhD in Communication and Information from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Full professor at PPGCOM ESPM. CNPq research productivity grant holder and coordinator of the Sense - Communication, consumption, image and experience research group (CNPq/ESPM).

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2025-12-11

How to Cite

Andrade, P. H., & Almeida, G. M. R. de. (2025). Ramita seca, tu corazón: performance, fabulación y experiencia drag latina-americana en Bartolina Xixa. Revista Periódicus, 1(23), 220–239. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i23.62231

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Vol. 1 No. 23 (2025): Self-narratives in spaces of (re)existence: arts, bodies, languages and "sudakas" dissident practices

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Dossier 23 - Self-narratives in spaces of (re)existence

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