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Maria Galindo is a prominent cult figure of feminism in Latin America. Her anarcho-feminist performative art events have caused high-profile scandals in Bolivia. She hosts an extremely popular radio show in La Paz and has founded Mujeres Creando – a collective and a women’s shelter, that, along with providing solidarity-based care work, also organises resistance to anti-abortionists, extractivists, liberal feminists and poverty.

Galindo will present a wake-up performance for us to come out of the state of capitalist, colonial and patriarchal hypnosis at Volksbühne’s Roter Salon.

Hypnosis aims to overcome a traumatic experience that cannot be endured in a conscious state. By means of hypnosis we can travel within a safe capsule to an inner place of regression, and return. But don’t we all rather need a dehypnosis session instead?

María Galindo is a Bolivian journalist, anarcho-feminist, graffiti artist, poet, essayist, film producer and communicator. She is currently co-director of Radio Deseo in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia. Her books include Feminismo bastardo (2021), No hay libertad política sin libertad sexual (2017), Espejito Mágico (2016) and No se puede descolonizar sin despatriarcalizar (2013). Her film productions include Amazonas, Mujer indomable (2009), Exiliados del Neoliberalismo (2004) and Mamá no me lo dijo (2004). Her filmic works have been shown at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and the Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz. Some of them have been chosen for the collection of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.

With kind support of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.