CLEOPATRAS – CLEOPATRAS / HR-40-2 / 12″ VINYL / 2024

Staging may adopt multiple forms. In the second half of the 1980s, CLEOPATRAS chose to present themselves according to the disposition, gestures and collective appeal of a band, although they did not have instruments nor songs. Rather, theirs was theater crossing over into other expressions; especially music (and vice versa). This was a convinced and colorful live dynamic, full of provocation; through which its four members plotted an autonomous feminine manifesto, unprecedented in the country, and whose features are still an influential and valid contribution. At a time when Chilean independent art was adopting the solemn forms imposed on resistance creation, CLEOPATRAS conceived a protest that was wrapped in popular codes and seductive signs. It was an unexpected transgression —and therefore, unforgettable.