This dissertation presents an investigation into two so-called live art works – Ugly girl at the rugby (1998) and Chandelier (2001-2002) – by the contemporary South African artist Steven Cohen (1962-). These works are explored with reference to the manner in which Cohen (as self-declared queer Jewish freak) uses performance art as a form of activism in order to expose practices of marginalisation and suppression (oppression) of non-normative or so-called deviant subject positions in terms of gender, race and ethnicity. The analysis of artworks is guided by the discourse of the carnavalesque and performative conceptualisations of gender with particular emphasis on Cohen’s use of drag as contemporary form of masquerade in order to propose an alternative subject position. The argument is as follows: that Cohen, by setting up an extreme alternative to normative identity constructs, manages to destabilise existing hierarchies that are structured according to binaries as these exist in spaces (such as a rugby stadium and a squatter camp) in the South African context. This destabilising of binary hierarchies gives rise to the argument that the symbolically encoded nature of spaces known for associations of suppression, exclusion and marginalisation are wrought open so that alternative meanings can come into being by activating these spaces as multifaceted and chronotopic constructs. The conclusion is that Cohen contributes profoundly towards the destabilisation of identities and in this way also helps to propose invigorating and fresh views of gender, race and ethnicity in a contemporary South African situation. / Thesis (MA (History of Art))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.

This thesis examines how women perform as leaders within male-dominated professions, including law, business, politics, the military, and the academy. In studying women's performances in terms of the corporeal and spectacular, the investigation seeks to understand how particular women enact leadership through their materiality within specific times and places. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's (1988) theorising of the processes of 'becoming', woman-as-leader is studied as an entity that passes from one incomplete and multiple assemblage to another, rather than as a singular 'developing' identity. The research is located within and between the paradoxes that complicate the performances of leadership for women. One key paradox serving as a rationale for this investigation is that, while 'equity' has become a truism of contemporary leadership, it is clear from formal reports (for example, the 2002 Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) report), that many women continue to be marginalised and under-represented as leaders and senior managers. Moreover, those few women who have achieved success often acknowledge themselves as both legitimately and differently - and sometimes awkwardly, located as leaders in the everyday enactments of their work. The investigation of leadership within and between such paradoxes is problematic for a neo-liberal order of thinking, and even for socially critical theory, because of the assumptions that modernist literature makes about women's struggle for political legitimacy (ie, a narrative of progress, emancipation, and/or linear cumulative historical development). It is for this reason that the conceptual tools used in this study are drawn from post-feminist and post-structuralist theory. Such theorising refuses literal categories in favour of 'ironic categories' (Rorty, 1989) where two apparently oppositional ideas are understood to be both necessary and true. To explore women 'becoming' leaders (Deleuze & Guattari, 1988), 'woman-as-leader' is interrogated using Jean François Lyotard's (1984) notion of 'performativity,' Mary Russo's (1994) theorising of the embodied spectacle of 'the female grotesque', and Richard Rorty (1989) and Donna Haraway's (1991) insistence on partiality, doubt, and the importance of 'undoing' the fixity of modernist categories - in this instance, for women. One ironic category of importance to the study is Haraway's theorising of a 'cyborgian identity', a technological assemblage that is part-human/part-machine. This allows acknowledgement that women leaders inhabit realms beyond the boundaries imposed by the same/difference, human/machine, present/past, and real/virtue binaries. Using these tools, the performances of a number of women leaders is examined in an empirical study that focuses on a few individual women located in male-defined and male dominated settings. The empirical work has two key components. First, it provides a reading of three moments in time where a female individual dys-appears (Leder, 1990) in the public gaze, erupting as a unique spectacle in spaces that are both enabling and constraining. It foregrounds the unique complexities of three public performances in which women made a spectacle of themselves, while the analysis refuses to either celebrate the individuals involved, or to bemoan the conditions under which they did so. The analysis demonstrates the value of re-thinking leadership in terms of its complexity for the female as embodied public 'performer'. It then moves on to focus specifically on the (embodied, spectacular) tactics being deployed by women leaders in contemporary professional work. This analysis is located in the professions of law, business, politics, the military, and the academy. The data-as-evidence emerging from the analysis show women leaders to be both and neither enacting and troubling 'proper' (ie, traditional and/or known) leadership conventions. The analysis provides a reading of how, through certain tactical shifts, women work to 'de-territorialise' both the 'forms of content' and 'forms of expression' (Deleuze & Guattari, 1988) constituting leadership performances. It makes visible the tactical assemblages these women deploy, and the ways in which such tactics separate, combine, and compound the same/difference, equality/inequality, either/or binaries. The specific tactical manoeuvres for achieving legitimacy in the public gaze cluster around four identifiable ironic categories: (i) legitimate cross-dressing (ii) assertive defence (iii) proper blasphemy, and (iv) humanly-machinic. When taken together, the two components of the empirical study compel a re-theorising of 'woman-as-leader' as both insider and outsider, an entity engaging in the on-going work of diss-assembling and re-assembling a leaderly self. Woman is shown 'to be not one, not multiple, but multiplicities', simultaneously (Deleuze & Guattari, 1988). This re-theorising provides a more nuanced account of women leaders working to maintain legitimacy, credibility, and propriety as leaders than mainstream theorising of leadership and management currently allows.

Resumo: Os elementos estruturais da narrativa do escritor português António Lobo Antunes tornam-se peças de um quebra-cabeça manipulado pelo autor, que, ao sinalizar para os escombros do contexto histórico reafirma os destroços da forma narrativa. Nesse processo se misturam os discursos jornalístico, político e religioso às vozes dos narradores e das personagens, dando origem a um instigante jogo polifônico. Com os romances Os Cus de Judas (1979), Fado Alexandrino (1983) e Exortação aos Crocodilos (1999), representativos de uma escrita que burla o discurso do autoritarismo, desautorizando-o e desautomatizando-o, enveredamos pelos meandros do grotesco e da ironia para expor os fragmentos de espaços marcados pelos acontecimentos de antes, durante e depois da Revolução dos Cravos e os fragmentos das guerras travadas, também, no interior das personagens. / Abstract: Structural elements of the Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes' narratives are pieces of a puzzle manipulated by an author who tends to turn relative the ruins of historical context and reassert the wrecks of the narrative form. In this process, historical, political and religious speeches mix to the voices of narrators and characters, raising an enticing polyphonic game in which we intend to interact. With the South of Nowhere (1979), Fado Alexandrino (1983) and Exhortation to the Crocodiles (1999), we will go through meanders of irony, parody and grotesque to expose fragments of signed spaces through past events, throughout and after the Carnation Revolution and the wars engaged, also within characters - a space of writing that fools the authoritarianism speech, discrediting it and ending the automatic speech. / Orientador: Sônia Helena de Oliveira Raymundo Piteri / Coorientador: Ana Paula dos Duarte Arnaut / Banca: Lilian Jacoto / Banca: Márcia Valéria Zamboni Gobbi / Banca: Maria Heloísa Martins Dias / Doutor

A presente dissertação se dedica a refletir sobre o corpo e o grotesco na arte e na comunicação contemporâneas. O objetivo do estudo foi investigar o grotesco na cena da dança contemporânea com o intuito de compreender como se dá a relação entre o modo de apreensão do grotesco na atualidade e o modo como ele se apresenta cenicamente. Assim, procurou-se investigar que representações da cultura contemporânea podem estar associadas às manifestações do fenômeno grotesco; como a mídia e o consumo de massa participam na disseminação desta estética; e como o corpo cênico na dança se aproxima/reflete estas representações presentes no cotidiano. O fenômeno grotesco, objeto de estudo desta pesquisa, foi investigado em duas companhias de dança: a Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças (RJ) e o Grupo Cena 11 de Dança (SC), onde foram observados o tratamento artístico e os dispositivos utilizados para construção do efeito corpo-grotesco nos espetáculos e o posicionamento dos artistas com o uso da estética grotesca nas obras. O embasamento teórico do estudo investiu na compreensão do fenômeno grotesco nos âmbitos histórico, estético/artístico e social e sua contextualização na contemporaneidade. Partiu-se do entendimento de que o corpo é mídia primária, "espaço" de comunicação e de linguagem e a dança cênica é um fenômeno urbano, que espelha as transformações representacionais do início deste século XXI. As abordagens teóricas de Mikhail Bakhtin sobre o realismo grotesco; de Wolfgang Kayser, sobre o grotesco romântico e os estudos de Muniz Sodré e Raquel Paiva, sobre o grotesco na comunicação contemporânea fundamentaram as discussões. Foi relevante refletir sobre as mudanças de paradigmas sociais que vêm se desenhando na atualidade, sobretudo com a influência do desenvolvimento tecnológico e midiático sobre as corporeidades e os processos de subjetivação. As qualidades fluidas e polifônicas associadas à contemporaneidade nortearam o entendimento desses novos paradigmas estéticos do corpo - atribuídos como corporeidades móveis contemporâneas - e, serviram para denominar/compreender como "grotesco líquido" a presença múltipla e volátil dos fenômenos grotescos na atualidade. / This dissertation is dedicated to reflecting on the body and the grotesque in the contemporary art and communication. The aim of this study was to investigate the grotesque in contemporary dance scene in order to understand the relationship between the way of apprehension of the grotesque nowadays and how it is presented scenically. This way, we sought to investigate representations of contemporary culture that may be associated with manifestations of the grotesque phenomenon; how the media and mass consumption take part in the dissemination of this aesthetic; and how, in the dance, the scenic body approaches/reflects these representations present in everyday life. The grotesque phenomenon, object of this research, was investigated in two dance companies: Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças (RJ) and Grupo Cena11 de Dança (SC), where we observed the artistic treatment and equipment used for the construction effect on body-grotesque during the performances and the point of view of the artists using the grotesque aesthetic in their works. The theoretical grounds of this study invested in understanding the grotesque phenomenon in historical fields, aesthetic/artistic and social and its contextualization in contemporaneity. This started from the understanding that the body is primary media, "space" of communication and language, and the scenic dance is an urban phenomenon that mirrors the representational transformations from the beginning of the 21st century. The theoretical approaches of Mikhail Bakhtin on the grotesque realism; Wolfgang Kayser, on the romantic grotesque and the studies of Muniz Sodré and Raquel Paiva, on the grotesque in contemporary communication grounded the discussions. It was important to reflect on the changing of social paradigms that have been molding themselves nowadays, especially with the influence of technological development and media on corporeality and subjectivity processes. The fluid and polyphonic qualities associated with contemporaneity, guided the understanding of these new aesthetic paradigms of the body - assigned as contemporary mobile corporealities - and served to denominate/understand as "liquid grotesque" the multiple and volatile presence of the grotesque phenomena today.

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A presente dissertação se dedica a refletir sobre o corpo e o grotesco na arte e na comunicação contemporâneas. O objetivo do estudo foi investigar o grotesco na cena da dança contemporânea com o intuito de compreender como se dá a relação entre o modo de apreensão do grotesco na atualidade e o modo como ele se apresenta cenicamente. Assim, procurou-se investigar que representações da cultura contemporânea podem estar associadas às manifestações do fenômeno grotesco; como a mídia e o consumo de massa participam na disseminação desta estética; e como o corpo cênico na dança se aproxima/reflete estas representações presentes no cotidiano. O fenômeno grotesco, objeto de estudo desta pesquisa, foi investigado em duas companhias de dança: a Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças (RJ) e o Grupo Cena 11 de Dança (SC), onde foram observados o tratamento artístico e os dispositivos utilizados para construção do efeito corpo-grotesco nos espetáculos e o posicionamento dos artistas com o uso da estética grotesca nas obras. O embasamento teórico do estudo investiu na compreensão do fenômeno grotesco nos âmbitos histórico, estético/artístico e social e sua contextualização na contemporaneidade. Partiu-se do entendimento de que o corpo é mídia primária, "espaço" de comunicação e de linguagem e a dança cênica é um fenômeno urbano, que espelha as transformações representacionais do início deste século XXI. As abordagens teóricas de Mikhail Bakhtin sobre o realismo grotesco; de Wolfgang Kayser, sobre o grotesco romântico e os estudos de Muniz Sodré e Raquel Paiva, sobre o grotesco na comunicação contemporânea fundamentaram as discussões. Foi relevante refletir sobre as mudanças de paradigmas sociais que vêm se desenhando na atualidade, sobretudo com a influência do desenvolvimento tecnológico e midiático sobre as corporeidades e os processos de subjetivação. As qualidades fluidas e polifônicas associadas à contemporaneidade nortearam o entendimento desses novos paradigmas estéticos do corpo - atribuídos como corporeidades móveis contemporâneas - e, serviram para denominar/compreender como "grotesco líquido" a presença múltipla e volátil dos fenômenos grotescos na atualidade. / This dissertation is dedicated to reflecting on the body and the grotesque in the contemporary art and communication. The aim of this study was to investigate the grotesque in contemporary dance scene in order to understand the relationship between the way of apprehension of the grotesque nowadays and how it is presented scenically. This way, we sought to investigate representations of contemporary culture that may be associated with manifestations of the grotesque phenomenon; how the media and mass consumption take part in the dissemination of this aesthetic; and how, in the dance, the scenic body approaches/reflects these representations present in everyday life. The grotesque phenomenon, object of this research, was investigated in two dance companies: Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças (RJ) and Grupo Cena11 de Dança (SC), where we observed the artistic treatment and equipment used for the construction effect on body-grotesque during the performances and the point of view of the artists using the grotesque aesthetic in their works. The theoretical grounds of this study invested in understanding the grotesque phenomenon in historical fields, aesthetic/artistic and social and its contextualization in contemporaneity. This started from the understanding that the body is primary media, "space" of communication and language, and the scenic dance is an urban phenomenon that mirrors the representational transformations from the beginning of the 21st century. The theoretical approaches of Mikhail Bakhtin on the grotesque realism; Wolfgang Kayser, on the romantic grotesque and the studies of Muniz Sodré and Raquel Paiva, on the grotesque in contemporary communication grounded the discussions. It was important to reflect on the changing of social paradigms that have been molding themselves nowadays, especially with the influence of technological development and media on corporeality and subjectivity processes. The fluid and polyphonic qualities associated with contemporaneity, guided the understanding of these new aesthetic paradigms of the body - assigned as contemporary mobile corporealities - and served to denominate/understand as "liquid grotesque" the multiple and volatile presence of the grotesque phenomena today.

This thesis aims to point out the social and psychological constructions of Antonio Carlos Viana‘s characters in Cine Privê collection of short stories (2009), based on the madness and eroticism. Connected to this issue, we are concerned to investigate how the grotesque body is described by the narrator‘s ironic memory, which builds silent characters set in situations of social exclusion, contextualized in decaying spaces. As theoretical and methodological elements, we start from reflections that endorse the relations of power, madness, the grotesque, eroticism and sexuality according to the perspective of Michel Foucault, Gaston Bachelard, Wolfgang Kayser and George Bataille. This research is divided in three chapters: the first one is about the theoretical part which addresses the issues of authorship, discourse and power; the second chapter, talks about the perspective from a narrator-child, presents the analysis of selected short stories through the view of madness and of the grotesque such as: "Santana Quemo-Quemo", "Quando meu pai voltou", "Minha avó Inocência" and "Nós, a maré e o morto ". Finally, the third one discusses in detail the issue of grotesque, sexuality and eroticism in the following short stories: "Cine Privê, "Angeline", "Esperanza", "Dia de parir cabrito", "Eliazar Eliazar" and "Moonlight Serenade". Thus, we intend to discuss in what ways the sexual saturation of Antonio Carlos Viana‘s characters occurs facing a disciplinative and excluding social context, as discourse is via of exclusion, as body and space are taken by repulsive aspects. / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo abordar as construções sociais e psicológicas dos personagens de Antônio Carlos Viana, na coletânea de contos Cine Privê (2009), tomando como base a problemática da loucura e do erotismo. Aliada a essas temáticas, temos a preocupação de investigar a forma como o corpo grotesco é descrito pela memória irônica do narrador, que constrói personagens silenciosos ambientados em situações de exclusão social, contextualizadas em espaços decadentes. Como subsídios teórico-metodológicos, partimos de reflexões que referendam as relações de poder, da loucura, do grotesco, do erotismo, e da sexualidade, conforme as perspectivas de Michel Foucault, Gaston Bachelard, Wolfgang Kayser e George Bataille. Didaticamente, dividimos esta pesquisa em três capítulos: o primeiro constitui-se na parte teórica que aborda as questões sobre autoria, discurso e poder; o segundo capítulo, sob a ótica do narrador-menino, apresenta as análises dos contos selecionados pelo prisma da loucura e do grotesco: "Santana Quemo-Quemo", "Quando meu pai voltou", "Minha avó Inocência" e "Nós, a maré e o morto"; o terceiro aborda, de forma detalhada, a questão do grotesco, da sexualidade e erotismo nos contos "Cine Privê", "Angeline", "Esperanza", "Dia de parir cabrito", "Eliazar Eliazar" e "Moonlight Serenade". Com isso, pretendemos problematizar de que maneira ocorre a saturação sexual dos personagens de Antônio Carlos Viana diante de um contexto social disciplinador e excludente, quando o discurso é via de exclusão e o corpo, e espaço, são tomados por aspectos repulsivos.

Este trabalho se propõe a analisar dez canções do espetáculo musical Ópera do malandro, de Chico Buarque, a partir da investigação das formas da paródia, do grotesco e da alegoria. A análise será feita através do estudo dos fonogramas do álbum duplo homônimo, lançado no ano de 1979, com as canções das montagens carioca (1978) e paulista (1979) da peça; e a partir do livro, lançado em setembro de 1978, com a dramaturgia e partituras da montagem carioca. A partir do recurso da paródia, o primeiro capítulo analisa as canções Tango do covil, O casamento dos pequenos burgueses, Teresinha e Ai se eles me pegam agora, com vistas na vasta rede de intertextualidades da peça. O segundo capítulo, a partir da investigação do grotesco, analisa as canções Geni e o Zepelim e Se eu fosse o teu patrão, apoiado em passagens da dramaturgia e de trechos de outras canções. Por fim, o terceiro capítulo analisa a passagem da caricatura grotesca para a forma alegórica, através do estudo das canções O malandro, O malandro n.2, Homenagem ao malandro e a Ópera do \"epílogo ditoso\". O estudo das formas das dez canções selecionadas neste trabalho, somado ao estudo de trechos da dramaturgia, procura desenhar as linhas de força da Ópera do malandro, sua potencialidade crítica e possíveis fragilidades. A partir de um gran finale farsesco, a narrativa da ópera mostra alegoricamente a trajetória político-econômica brasileira no século XX. / This study aims to analyze ten songs from the musical spectacle Ópera do malandro, Chico Buarque, from the investigation of the parody, the grotesque and allegorical forms. The analysis will be done through the study of the homonym double album phonograms, launched in 1979, with the songs from Rio (1978) and São Paulo (1979) stagings of the play; and from the book, released in September 1978, with the dramaturgy and music from the Rio performance. From parody forms, the first chapter analyzes the songs Tango do covil, O casamento dos pequenos burgueses, Teresinha and Ai, se eles me pegam agora, studing the vast intertextuality network of the play. The second chapter, from a research of the form grotesque, analyzes the songs Geni e o Zepelim and Se eu fosse o teu patrão, supported by passages of dramaturgy and excerpts of other songs. Finally, the third chapter analyzes the passage of grotesque caricature to the allegorical form, through the study of the songs O malandro, O malandro n. 2, Homenagem ao malandro and Ópera do epílogo ditoso. The study of the forms of the ten selected songsin this work, added to the study of the dramaturgy, aims to draw the lines of force of the Ópera do malandro, his critical potential and possibles fragilities. From a farce gran finale, the opera narrative shows allegorically the brazilian political and economic history in the twentieth century.

L'ironie atteint au plus complexe par le plus simple, à la raison par l'irrationnel, à la puissance par la douceur, au sérieux par la raillerie. C'est l'éclosion de l'art de subversion ironique. Dans la tradition rhétorique, nulle mention n'est faite d'une forme d'utilisation littéraire de l'ironie qui permettrait au sein d'une oeuvre romanesque, dramatique ou poétique l'intrusion de la figure de l'auteur. Dans la période d'après-guerre, on voit un nouveau Giono qui renouvelle l'édifice de son oeuvre sur une sorte de vertige : l'ironie, les sous-entendus, l'implicite, les vides narratifs aussi bien dans le style que dans la conception du monde. Les oeuvres qui paraissaient au moment où naît cette ère du soupçon qui a divisé l'oeuvre et a changé l'esthétique de l'écrivain, sont les plus marquées par l'ironie. Giono assigne l'ironie à un foyer de production fictionnelle qui ne saurait bénéficier de quelques immunités philosophiques, esthétiques, techniques. L'ironie c'est aussi l'effet des procédés typographiques. Dans cet univers, toute authenticité risque d'être pervertie dans un roman. Mais l'ironie de Giono est avant tout une vision tragique du monde. Elle est également une interprétation de la condition humaine. Le romancier est donc celui qui nage dans les eaux troubles de la contradiction. Il examine le monde en dévoilant les ambiguïtés. / The irony achieves to the most complex by the simplest, to the reason by the irrational, to the power by the sweetness, to the seriously by the mockery. It is the hatching of the art of the ironic subversion. In the Rhetoric tradition, no mention was made of a shape of a literary use of irony which would allow within a novelistic, dramatic or poetic work, the intrusion of the figure of the author. In the post-war period, we see a new Giono who renews the building of his work on a kind of dizziness: the irony, the allusions, the implicit and the narrative emptiness, in the style and in the conception of the world as well. The works which appeared as is born this era of suspicions which divided the work and changed the esthetics of the writer, are the most marked by the irony. Giono assigns the irony to a home of fictional production which could not benefit philosophical, esthetical, and technical immunity. Irony is also the effect of the typographic processes. In this universe, any authenticity risks to be perverted in a novel. But the irony of Giono is primarily a tragic vision of the world, a form of belonging to this world and a way of participation in its mockeries and its delights. It is also an interpretation of the human condition. The novelist is thus the one who swims in shady waters of the contradiction. He examines the world by revealing the ambiguities.

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