RESUMO Na abertura da icônica exposição China/Avant-Garde (1989, Pequim), a artista Xiao Lu disparou dois tiros contra sua instalação Dialogue e entregou a arma ao artista Tang Song, que mais tarde se tornaria seu namorado. A partir daquele momento, o mundo da arte atribuiu a peça a Tang Song e Xiao Lu. Duas décadas depois, Xiao Lu disputou a autoria exclusiva da obra de arte em um livro de memórias ficcionais, Dialogue (2010). Nesse texto, ela apresentou uma historiografia de sua arte, refletindo sobre a performance e desafiando a apropriação da obra por Tang Song. Este artigo explora a reescrita de Xiao Lu a respeito da história oficial da arte e seus fundamentos patriarcais por intermédio de uma lente feminista. Abarca leituras complementares, contraditórias e contrastantes da arte de Xiao Lu e oferece uma nova abordagem tanto à dimensão terapêutica como política do relato autobiográfico da artista.

At the opening of the iconic exhibition China/Avant-Garde (1989, Beijing), the artist Xiao Lu fired two shots at her installation Dialogue and handed the gun to the artist Tang Song, who would later become her boyfriend. From that moment on, the artworld attributed the piece to Tang Song and Xiao Lu. Two decades after the event, Xiao Lu disputed the unique authorship of the artwork in a fictional memoir, Dialogue (2010). In this text, she presented a historiography of her art, reflecting on the performance and challenging Tang Song’s appropriation of the work. This article explores Xiao Lu’s re-writing of the official history of art and its patriarchal foundations through a feminist lens. It engages with complementary, contradictory, and contrasting readings of Xiao Lu's art and offers a new approach that addresses both the therapeutic and political dimensions of the artist's autobiographical account.

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This paper analyses the concept of relational aesthetics proposed by Nicolas Bourriaud considering the close connections of some performative art practices with the active participation of the spectator in the creation of «constructed situations». I will examine a range on actions of Marina Abramović and Tino Sehgal, in which the audience becomes one of the main agents: stressing the relationship between creator and spectator, between individual and collective experience. Under such premises art shows the will to move, to touch, to affect deeply, connecting the public with the private sphere. Within these parameters, the work of art emerges in the interstices of society as a tool to outline new ways of creating relations, which Bourriaud termed «utopias of proximity» or «micro-utopias». Such situations understand creation as a device to give food for thought and encourage dialogue and critical thinking.

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