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Um Estudo Sobre o Nojo, o Pudor e a Desobediência
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O presente estudo tem como objetivos analisar discursos culturais dominantes, perceber os seus primórdios e motivações profundas, constatando a sua escalada para narrativas e práticas controladoras dos sujeitos, e questionando possibilidades de resistência e desconstrução dessa violência. Percebe-se o corpo como central a esta investigação, por ser possível, através dele e das suas relações habituais, pensar dinâmicas culturais e políticas coletivas. É a partir da observação da sua representação em imagem ao longo da História que se procura assinalar conexões entre o domínio da estética, concretamente a arte, e os domínios cultural e político. Argumenta-se que os corpos imagéticos e os corpos concretos interligamse de maneiras profundas, sendo, portanto, viável recorrer à imagem considerada artística como um microcosmo, situado no âmago da cultura, a partir do qual abordar e explorar conteúdos que a transcendem, isto é, que não remetem diretamente para a arte mas que esta, inversamente, pode evocar diretamente e operar como veículo de reflexão. Desta forma, pensa-se criticamente sobre as delimitações das ideias dominantes de nojo e pudor, tentando destrinçar que características dos corpos geram associações ao que causa repulsa e ao que se quer manter fora do campo de visão e de contacto, usando representações imagéticas para expor atitudes coletivas de repressão de corpos não-hegemónicos. Interpelam-se corpos femininos, corpos feios, corpos gordos, corpos não-binários, entre outros, para tentar entender porque causam tanta repulsa há tanto tempo – o que há na existência destas criaturas que gera tumulto e de que formas são as narrativas normativas violentas para si? Sugiro remexer a estrutura que valida essas violências, permanecer com os corpos impactados que a subvertem, para negociar outras estruturas possíveis, mais flexíveis e que permitam vivências livres. Nesse sentido, coloca-se também a hipótese de a arte, e a estética enquanto conceito alargado, funcionar como dispositivo de catalisação de mudanças no tecido social e político. Incentiva-se a ideia de que práticas artísticas, mas também vidas, desobedientes da norma são necessárias para a criação de estruturas de resistência ao poder normativo, estabelecendo-se interseções íntimas entre o individual e o coletivo. Com foco sobretudo em questões de género e sexualidade, defende-se a ressignificação radical do desejo como possível caminho de construção de narrativas inclusivas e empáticas. Nota-se a relevância do desejo, tal como é culturalmente fabricado, para temáticas artísticas e estéticas, para as vivências e identidades dos corpos e, portanto, para dinâmicas políticas. Tenta-se, então, identificar jogos de relações existentes entre distintas camadas do corpo social, aproximando-as e pensando umas através das outras, numa simbiose exploratória e aberta a diálogos, com o objetivo simultâneo de sondar as feridas históricas do corpo e as suas possibilidades de cura. Faz ainda parte deste projeto a curta-metragem Sangro Sangro, um exercício prático de exploração da temática da menstruação. Pensado como objeto autónomo, mas profundamente relacionado com este trabalho teórico, no vídeo convergem as questões do nojo, do pudor e da desobediência a partir do corpo e do género. O filme pode ser acedido aqui: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQk7KL6yPx32EIl-r77eDroCrrsA6acx/view?usp=sharing
The present study aims to analyze dominant cultural discourses, to understand its beginnings and deep motivations, remarking its escalation to narratives and practices that are controlling of the subjects, and questioning possibilities of resistance and deconstruction of that violence. The body is perceived as central to this investigation because it is possible, through it and its common relationships, to think about cultural and political collective dynamics. It is from the observation of the body’s representation in image through History that connections between the domain of aesthetics, particularly art, and the political and cultural domains are seeked. It is claimed that there are deep connections between imagetic bodies and concrete bodies. It is therefore viable to employ the image deemed artistic as a microcosm, at the core of culture, through which address and explore contents that transcend it, this is, that don´t refer directly to art but that art, inversely, can directly evoke and operate as a vehicle of reflection. In this way, the boundaries of the dominant ideas of disgust and shame are critically though, trying to unravel what body characteristics generate associations to what causes repulsion and to what is desired outside of the field of sight and contact. Visual representations are employed to expose collective attitudes of repression towards non-hegemonic bodies. Feminine bodies, ugly bodies, fat bodies, non-binary bodies, among others, are approached to try and understand why do they have caused such loathing for so long – what is it about these beings’ existence that creates turmoil and in which ways are the normative narratives violent to them? I suggest uncovering the structure that validates and justifies that violence and remaining with the impacted bodies that subvert it, to negotiate other, more flexible structures that allow free experiences of life. In this regard, it is also suggested that art, and aesthetics as a broad concept, function as apparatuses for catalyzing changes within the social and political fabric. The idea that norm disobedient artistic practices, as well as lives, are necessary for the creation of structures of resistance to normative power is advocated, while seeking to forge intimate connections between the individual and the collective. Focusing mostly on gender and sexuality issues, the radical resignification of desire is defended as a possible route of inclusive and empathetic narrative construction. The significance of desire, as it is fabricated culturally, is ackowledged in artistic and aesthetic questions, as well as in the experiences and identities of bodies, and hence in political dynamics. There’s thus an attempt to identify existing interrelationship patterns between multiple layers of the social body, bridging them close and thinking one through the others, in an exploratory symbiosis that is open to dialogues, with the simultaneous goal of probing the bodies’ historical wounds and its healing possibilities. This project also includes the short film Sangro Sangro as a practical exercise in exploring the issue of menstruation. Though as an autonomous object, but also deeply related to this theoretical work, in the video the topics of disgust, shame and disobedience converge via the body and the gender. The film can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQk7KL6yPx32EIl-r77eDroCrrsA6acx/view?usp=sharing
The present study aims to analyze dominant cultural discourses, to understand its beginnings and deep motivations, remarking its escalation to narratives and practices that are controlling of the subjects, and questioning possibilities of resistance and deconstruction of that violence. The body is perceived as central to this investigation because it is possible, through it and its common relationships, to think about cultural and political collective dynamics. It is from the observation of the body’s representation in image through History that connections between the domain of aesthetics, particularly art, and the political and cultural domains are seeked. It is claimed that there are deep connections between imagetic bodies and concrete bodies. It is therefore viable to employ the image deemed artistic as a microcosm, at the core of culture, through which address and explore contents that transcend it, this is, that don´t refer directly to art but that art, inversely, can directly evoke and operate as a vehicle of reflection. In this way, the boundaries of the dominant ideas of disgust and shame are critically though, trying to unravel what body characteristics generate associations to what causes repulsion and to what is desired outside of the field of sight and contact. Visual representations are employed to expose collective attitudes of repression towards non-hegemonic bodies. Feminine bodies, ugly bodies, fat bodies, non-binary bodies, among others, are approached to try and understand why do they have caused such loathing for so long – what is it about these beings’ existence that creates turmoil and in which ways are the normative narratives violent to them? I suggest uncovering the structure that validates and justifies that violence and remaining with the impacted bodies that subvert it, to negotiate other, more flexible structures that allow free experiences of life. In this regard, it is also suggested that art, and aesthetics as a broad concept, function as apparatuses for catalyzing changes within the social and political fabric. The idea that norm disobedient artistic practices, as well as lives, are necessary for the creation of structures of resistance to normative power is advocated, while seeking to forge intimate connections between the individual and the collective. Focusing mostly on gender and sexuality issues, the radical resignification of desire is defended as a possible route of inclusive and empathetic narrative construction. The significance of desire, as it is fabricated culturally, is ackowledged in artistic and aesthetic questions, as well as in the experiences and identities of bodies, and hence in political dynamics. There’s thus an attempt to identify existing interrelationship patterns between multiple layers of the social body, bridging them close and thinking one through the others, in an exploratory symbiosis that is open to dialogues, with the simultaneous goal of probing the bodies’ historical wounds and its healing possibilities. This project also includes the short film Sangro Sangro as a practical exercise in exploring the issue of menstruation. Though as an autonomous object, but also deeply related to this theoretical work, in the video the topics of disgust, shame and disobedience converge via the body and the gender. The film can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQk7KL6yPx32EIl-r77eDroCrrsA6acx/view?usp=sharing
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Corpo Nojo Pudor Normatividade Não-normatividade Desejo Desobediência Género Resistência Poder Imagem Arte Pintura Fotografia Representação Body Disgust Shame Normativity Non-normativity Desire Disobedience Gender Resistance Power Image Art Painting Photography Representation