"Perhaps this question is the residual trace from which we can continue connecting the times and places of bodies, the web of absences and presences that determine us, the fabric of never-realized duels. This is the pressing question that spreads across a vast geography. It was launched from Lima by the visual artist and performer Emilio Santisteban, but it is perhaps THE QUESTION from which we have acted and thought about the place of art and performance, and in particular the place of the body, of life, for more than thirty years, and perhaps today more than ever. (...) It establishes the tension between the world of art and the world of life, between specialized action and ethical action, between indifference and pain. (...) The problem is not the insistence on performance art as art of the body, but on the meaning and impact of performance art whose support is the body in contexts where thousands of bodies have disappeared and violently annihilated and where the possibility of mourning has not existed. (...) The question is not only "It is proposed to problematize performative practice by radicalizing the implications of the body and the subject in the realization of an act that cannot be posed from a formal dimension. Rather, it radically links what I do with my body to the reality of what we do or what happens to the body of the other, how much I care about the fate of the other, ultimately a mirror of the fate that my body can also suffer. (...) The question about the place or the site of bodies pierces any comfortable thought regarding the place of the body in any artistic platform. (...) What prevails in these circumstances are the residual forms of bodies, the allegorical emergence of our remains, because what happens to the body of others is also what can happen to my body, to yours, to everyone's."

Diéguez, Ileana. (2016) Bodies without Mourning. Iconographies and theatricalities of pain. 342–347. Mexico: Autonomous University of Nuevo León.