scholarly journals A ALMA ENCANTADORA DO BECO OU AS CRÔNICAS DE UM VAGABUNDO: ARTE DRAG, PERFORMANCE E URBANIDADES / Alley’s lovely soul or the chronicles of a tramp: art of drag, performance and urbanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (41) ◽  
pp. 167-192
Author(s):  
Fábio de Sousa Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Performative Writing ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
Proposal A ◽  
The City ◽  
A Performance

Este texto é uma escrita-performance, inspirada metodologicamente na escrita rizomática de Deleuze e Guattari e na proposta de escrita performativa de Peggy Phellan, uma pesquisa-narrativa que se debruça sobre um espetáculo artístico-cultural de rua, em Salvador (Beco da OFF, Barra), protagonizado por uma artista drag queen da cidade de Salvador, Valerie O’rarah: performance propositadamente artificial e encenada, em que se lança um olhar sobre a noite soteropolitana e aqueles que circulam por ruas, becos e vielas, uma urbe cheia de contradições, encantos e conflitos. A persona encarnada como narrador é a do flâneur, vagabundo e errante urbano relido pela poética baudelairiana e experimentada por João do Rio, Walter Benjamin, entre outros. Esse errante urbano se perde pela metrópole, entre os fluxos e devires dos encontros e possibilidades de uma noite imprevisível: por um instante e um descuido, ele se depara e se encanta com o espetáculo e o contempla. O encontro do flâneur com Valerie O’rarah e essa noite quente e arriscada é uma experiência de choque e de alteridade radical, identidades que se fragmentam e se complementam na multidão misteriosa e soturna da cidade de Salvador.Palavras-chave: Performance; Escrita; Urbanidades; Gênero; Arte drag. AbstractThis text is a performance writing, methodologically inspired by the rhizomatic writing of Deleuze and Guattari and Peggy Phellan’s performative writing proposal, a narrative research that focuses on a street artistic-cultural spectacle in Salvador (Beco da OFF, Barra), starring a drag queen artist from the city of Salvador, Valerie O’rarah: performance, therefore, purposely  artificial and contrived, it takes a look at the soteropolitan night and those who wander through its streets and alleys, a metropolis full of contradiction, enchantment and conflicts. The persona being incarnated as the narrator is the flâneur, a wandering tramp reread from Baudelairian poetry as experienced by João do Rio, Walter Benjamin, among others. This urban wanderer loses himself in the metropolis amongst flows and becomings of an exciting and unpredictable night: in a moment of carelessness, he stumbles upon the spectacle and becomes mesmerized. The flâneur’s encounter with Valerie O’rarah and that hot and risky night is an experience of shock and radical otherness, identities that fragment and complement each other in the mysterious and gloomy crowd of the city of Salvador.Keywords: Performance; Writing; Urbanities; Gender; Art of drag.

Comedy and the Athenian Ideal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Konstan
Keyword(s):  
American Democracy ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
The World ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
Hellenistic World ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
New Comedy ◽  
A Performance

New Comedy was a Panhellenic phenomenon. It may be that a performance in Athens was still the acme of a comic playwright’s career, but Athens was no longer the exclusive venue of the genre. Yet Athens, or an idealized version of Athens, remained the setting or backdrop for New Comedy, whatever its provenance or intended audience. New Comedy was thus an important vehicle for the dissemination of the Athenian polis model throughout the Hellenistic world, and it was a factor in what has been termed ‘the great convergence’. The role of New Comedy in projecting an idealized image of the city-state may be compared to that of Hollywood movies in conveying a similarly romanticized, but not altogether false, conception of American democracy to populations around the world.

Parkour, Masculinity, and the City

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Kidder
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
The People ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
Spatial Appropriation ◽  
The City ◽  
A Performance

Parkour is a new, and increasingly popular, sport in which individuals athletically and artistically negotiate obstacles found in the urban environment. In this article, I position parkour as a performance of masculinity involving spatial appropriation. Through ethnographic data I show how young men involved in the sport use the city (both the built environment and the people within it) as a structural resource for the construction and maintenance of gender identities. The focus of my research highlights the performance of gender as a spatialized process.

scholarly journals A PERFORMANCE DRAG QUEEN E SUAS REVERBERAÇÕES

Linha Mestra ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 278-282
Author(s):  
Matheus Flauzino Oliari ◽  
Jesio Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Drag Queen ◽  
A Performance

A PERFORMANCE DRAG QUEEN E SUAS REVERBERAÇÕES

scholarly journals Hlið við hlið. Tapað-fundið í framandi borgum

Ritið ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-49
Author(s):  
Ástráður Eysteinsson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
World View ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Getting Lost ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Internal Connections

This essay concerns itself with perceptions of the urban sphere, with its manifestations in literature and life writing, and with the city as a place of strangeness and travel in various senses, including the ways in which it pertains to the individual world view. Cities are places of density and internal connections, but their gates also open out and connect with other places, and increasingly other cities. Following a discussion of the Icelandic links between Copenhagen and Reykjavík, and the slow emergence of the latter as a „literary capital“, the course is set for foreign cities, including Berlin and Paris in the company of Walter Benjamin, and the experience of getting lost with Franz Kafka in places that may be Prague and New York. In attempting to answer the question whether it is possible to become intimate with cities, we have recourse to city guides, life maps, a touring theatre – and the art of losing and finding.

scholarly journals TOOLS IN VIRAL TIMES: QUESTIONING THE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES IN MEXICAN SCHOOLING PRACTICES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alonso Casanueva
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Radio Waves ◽  
Witch Trials ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Critical Theorist ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
The Many ◽  
Schooling Practices ◽  
The City

From 1929 to 1932, the German critical theorist Walter Benjamin broadcast a radio show intended for children, «Enlightenment for Children» (Aufklärung für Kinder). His program consisted of illuminating lessons that bound together culture and history in creative ways, to teach children about the world. Used as a tool for convivial purposes, the radio waves transported German kinder to the sites where witch trials happened, or to learn the secret language built into the city walls of Berlin, or to wonder about the life of the Romani and imagine the features of the many characters that formed part of Benjamin’s radio plays. It was an imaginative pedagogical exercise that has made me wonder about the possibilities of technological tools in the service of learning experiences.

Aloha in Drag

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-112
Author(s):  
Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Kanaka Maoli ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Cultural Belonging ◽  
A Performance ◽  
Performance Strategies

“Aloha in Drag” investigates how Hawaiianness and aloha can be performed and felt in spaces where Hawaiianness is not obviously being performed or “confessed.” Looking at the performance strategies of Cocoa Chandelier, a well-known Hawaiian drag queen and performance artist working in Honolulu. Chandelier’s performances speak to a frequently marginalized Kānaka Maoli LGBT and local/settler LGBT population in Hawaiʻi, cultivating a shared sense of place and cultural belonging. These spaces allow the performance of aloha in drag, a performance of Hawaiianness that is unidentifiable to non-Hawaiian audiences, but can be deployed as a strategy to resist the ongoing subjection and hyper-commodification of Hawaiian indigeneity.

The Flaneur in the Parlor: Poe's “Philosophy of Furniture”

Prospects ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 103-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Arcades Project ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

In one of the brief reflections Walter Benjamin composed as part of his Arcades Project, he personified the mid-19th-century domestic interior and made it and the flaneur onfidantes: “The space winks at the flaneur: What do you think may have gone on here?” (418–19). Benjamin typically filtered much of his thought through the figure of the flaneur, a recognizable urban type that emerged during the middle third of the 19th century, one who deliberately strolled the city streets and arcades and attempted to discern the meanings of what he observed. In the fullest scholarly treatment of the subject, Anke Gleber argued that the act of walking formed an essential part of the flaneur's observational process. Discussing such works as E. T. A. Hoffman's “The Cousin's Corner-Window,” however, Gleber did acknowledge a “paradoxical variant,” the stationary flaneur (13).

scholarly journals Vozes e versos quilombolas:uma poética identitária e de resistência em Helvécia.

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gean Paulo Gonçalves Santana
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
A Performance

Esta tese tem como objeto de estudo os cantos--poemas, uma expressão poética oral do quilombo de Helvécia, no Extremo Sul da Bahia. Registrar, descrever e analisar essa poética no que traz de expressões que lidam com a representação da herança africana, suas identidades, ressignificações e resistência se constituem objetivos norteadores desta tese. Tais cantos-poemas, quando vocalizados pelas cantadoras ao toque do tambor deitado, ganham  corpo, ritmo e significação nas performances do bate-barriga, do embarreiro, nas litanias, ao explicitarem histórias ancestrais, louvores e orações, conflitos, amores e trabalho. Destaca-se nesta tese, o papel que o canto-poema revela, a partir de seus discursos poéticos e vozes sociais, em relação a Helvécia, sua história e sua gente, e a sua devida importância no processo de reconhecimento quilombola. Esta tese, no percurso da escrita, promove um diálogo direto entre os discursos das mulheres cantadoras e o aporte teórico, assim como culminou com a produção de um DVD, para demonstrar a performance tão importante da poética das mulheres cantadoras de Helvécia e a transcrição de todos os cantos-poemas por elas vocalizados, importante destacar, registrados pela primeira vez. Os resultados da pesquisa e as análises que sustentam esta tese dialogam com a concepção de alteridade, proposta por Bakhtin; com as teorias da tradição viva, segundo Hampâté Bâ; a presença da voz e oralidade poética, em Paul Zumthor; literalização da oralidade em Jean Derrive; conceito de narrador e história, em Walter Benjamin; e em Walter Ong, a psicodinâmica sobre a oralidade.

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