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2005 Performance
Perra

"I write the word PERRA (Bitch) with a knife on my right leg. Condemnation of the acts committed against women in Guatemala, where tortured bodies have appeared with inscriptions carved on them with knives or blades."
                              Regina Jose Galindo, 81

2000 Performance
No perdemos nada con nacer


Guatemala                              Mexico

"Put in a clear plastic bag, like human rubbish, I am placed in the bin."
                                        Regina Jose Galindo, 141

Poetry Sample -

Si fuera José
-solo José-
no tendría este pene atrofiado
mis tetas se hundirían
me llenaria de pelos. 

No me las cogería a la fuerza
Ni me cuidaria las nalgas 

Si fuera José
Seria igual de vulgar
Y no me enamoraria de Regina.

 Regina Jose Galindo, 162

2004 Performance
El peso de la sangre

"A litre of human blood, falling drop by drop, on to my head and body." 
                           
                            Regina Jose Galindo, 105

2005 Performance
Vértigo

"<<Life hangs on too fine thread, often incapable of supporting the weight of our own chaos>>. My body, like a pendulum, urinates, whilst it remains hanging by a cable, several metres from the ground."
                                           
                                               Regina Jose Galindo, 73

"My head is filled with hallucinated, surreal, tragic and inconceivable images. I have seen many faces, characters, moments and places in my country. It is part of what it means to be Guatemalan. It is, in part, what makes us."                   Goldman Interview

Olivia Gessella Perez
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