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Nadia Granados
Nadia Granados (*May 3, 1978 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a colombian performance artist who uses her body in combination with multi media technologies to explore relationships between the gore representation of state violence in mainstream media, institutionalized machismo, heterosexual pornography and violence against women.

Work
Nadia Granados performances are interlacing grass roots activist strategies (for example public intervention in real life and virtual public places) with visual media technology (such as mixing closed circuit video with mash up video art projections), with often leads to controversial audience reactions. In her live performance show El Cabaret La Fulminante she employs an alter ego, La Fulminante : this sardonic parody of an over-sexualized Latina character, who speaks in an unknown, possibly indigenous but actually fictional language, which is then dubbed with hyper-political subtitles. In this way, Granados invites the viewer to reconsider questions of post-colonialism, gender stereotypes, auto-representation and pornographic imagery, while simultaneously exposing manipulative, pop-cultural media strategies and promoting the rejection of neo-liberal, imperialist values.

In 2013, the Granados was awarded the 28th Franklin Furnace Fund, NYC, for her performance Carro Limpio, consciencia sucia.

Nadia Granados has presented her work in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and Canada , as well as in France, Italy, Spain and Germany.

Controversy
In January 2014, one of her video works, entitled Maternidad Obligatoria, created a media controvery in Spain, when internet hackers inserted one of her videos against abortion on the web page of the catholic archbishop of Granada, Spain.