“I Speak for my Difference”: Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Memory, and Performance in Chile’s Transition to Democracy

Studies on Chile’s transition to democracy after Pinochet’s regime regarding memory, history, and public space have focused mainly on their massive visual/material expressions, either officially sponsored or created by oppositional activists. Few have studied the battle for memory carried on through alternative means and on a smaller scale by groups excluded both by the retiring dictatorship and the upcoming democracy. This work analyzes how the aesthetic-political actions of the artistic duo Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, as openly homosexual activists with intentionally fluid identities, embodied a radical and militant difference from which they actively aimed to publicly challenge and broaden the discussions and political culture by which a “new” country was being thought of and built.