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The women's bodies and feminism new materialism in disability theatre: Kaite O'Reilly's The 9 Fridas

The body has been regarded as passive conception subordinated to social and cultural thought until the 20th century. Particularly, the women’s bodies have been defined as negative counterpart according to dichotomous thinking. Moreover, it has been revealed that the directive biological studies on the female bodies were excluded in contemporary philosophy including social constructivism. Even feminism has not considered each woman’s individuality taking into account of race, sex and gender because philosophy focused on discursive characteristics. However, corporeal feminism which is based on the women’s biological conditions and experiences, seems to conceive the female body as the material. Under the influence of the turn of matter, new materialism has emerged to give priority to vitality and flexibility of matter. Additionally, the newly emerged material is produced by its self-generated course through intra-action. The body is also the material in the process of entangling with an environment by its own capacity. Kaite O’Reilly’s The 9 Fridas portrays that Frida Kahlo’s suffering caused by betrayal, bodily pain and women’s status is splitted into multiple theatrical voices. Frida’s physical and psychological torment is conveyed into the surrealistic works. Consequently, Frida’s art becomes the newly produced material through intra-action involved in her pain and her artistic talent.