Gender performances and genders in performance: reflections on the art and the bodies of Michel Journiac

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https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v24.62516

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The article appropriates both anthropological discussions and those coming from other disciplinary fields such as art history and philosophy to reflect on politics and poetics related to gender performances, having as analysis material some works by artists Marcel Duchamp and, especially, Michel Journiac. To do so, I first resume a series of theoretical elaborations on costume and clothing in relation to the
body. Subsequently, I discuss issues related to practices of cross-dressing
and to experiences that address gender issues in the artistic field. Finally, I analyze inextricable relations between clothes, body and possibilities of life and transition/transmutation in order to propose politics and poetics
that do not operate by the determinations of the psi sciences, generally triggered to erect concepts about the practice of cross-dressing.

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Vitor Grunvald, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Professor da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Doutor em Antropologia Social pela Universidade de São Paulo e mestre em Antropologia Social pelo Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 

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2021-05-27

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GRUNVALD, V. Gender performances and genders in performance: reflections on the art and the bodies of Michel Journiac. Sociedade e Cultura, Goiânia, v. 24, 2021. DOI: 10.5216/sec.v24.62516. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/fcs/article/view/62516. Acesso em: 16 aug. 2024.

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