Nas bordas da performance: o corpo em ação e a emergência de outras cenas acerca dos femininos.

Abstract

This thesis investigates the inseparability between artistic performances and gender performances. Instead of thinking of performance only as a bodily manifestation of gender and the arts and uniting the field of arts to that of communication, the research proposed to investigate performance as a method, a practice that configures an episteme in the words of Diana Taylor (2013). It was from this relational game that we brought together two crucial moments in recent Brazilian history, the 1960s/1970s, a period in which the country was immersed in a civil-military dictatorship, and the years 2010/2020, when we started a wave of conservative that would lead us to the rise of an extreme right government. It is to these two historical contexts that we look to understand the artistic processes, contexts and contingencies that gave rise to the video performances of the artists Letícia Parente, Sonia Andrade and Regina Vater, in the first part and Renata Felinto, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro and Priscila Rezende in the second part of the work, interspersed with struggles and advances around feminist movements. Therefore, they are artistic processes that invest in a knowledge of the body that, in contact with the video, point to an artistic investigation, which allows one to see the subjective transformations and the opening for the appearance of other corporalities in the visual arts scene, from the 2010s, demanding from our analyzes other criteria different from those that governed the discussions and disputes of femininity on the scene in the 1960s/1970s.