The Performance Art That Became Octopus: Floating in the Waters of Arts in Hybrid and Unintelligible Corporalities

Authors

  • Camila Olivia de Melo Universidade Federal do Paraná
  • Regiane Ribeiro Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

The performance in contemporary art has proved a powerful political-artistic tool to make visible corporalities at odds with heterosexual imperative. Ethnographic research was conducted for two years in a house of culture of Curitiba-PR, found body mixtures. The performance in that context was being understood as an octopus, a mixture of performance and octopus. We found a communicative power for the free expression of gender, to destabilize the coherent matrix of gender, or at least an escape from their normative and rigid models. The body tentacles give-and-take by various artistic languages to send messages, to communicate life itself, to make visible your own queer attitude.

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Published

2015-03-09

How to Cite

Melo, C. O. de, & Ribeiro, R. (2015). The Performance Art That Became Octopus: Floating in the Waters of Arts in Hybrid and Unintelligible Corporalities. Revista Estudos Feministas, 23(1), 239–248. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Dossiers

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