Banca de DEFESA: OLIVIA MARA RODRIGUES DE MELO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : OLIVIA MARA RODRIGUES DE MELO
DATE: 12/05/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

Palhaça Birota: Debates between memory and power relations in clowns and in the female body

KEY WORDS:

Clowns. Historiography. Memory. Feminism. Biopower/Biopotency.

PAGES: 122
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Artes
SUBÁREA: Teatro
SUMMARY:

This dissertation seeks to analyze the work of Mariana Gabriel, as Palhaça Birota. She works as a film producer and clown, and performs during the screenings of the documentary: My grandmother was a clown. The documentary tells the story of his grandmother Maria Eliza Alves, who acted as clown Xamego at Circo-teatro Guarany, in the early 1920s. Brazilian. I seek to draw analyzes and connections between her work and the field of clown and clown historiography. Considering the paradoxical thought of the impossibility of a reliable description of Mariana's work, of her performances, but being possible to think about them from the recognition of the inaccessibility of this totality, observing them as something not static and fixed in history. Deploying in the empirical sense, therefore, the archive is not being considered here as a set of gathered documents, not as mere coincidence, in its materiality. The researches are crossed by philosophical questions, between biopower and biopolitics, passing through the notions of power, of hegemonic systems, which affect the fields of women's history writing, feminist struggles and the debate of clown women.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interno - 1339544 - CLAUDIO ALBERTO DOS SANTOS
Interno - 1005446 - ALBERTO FERREIRA DA ROCHA JUNIOR
Externa à Instituição - DANIELE PIMENTA - UFU