Performances de gênero e gêneros em performance: reflexões sobre a arte e os corpos de Michel Journiac

Abstract

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 thebody. Subsequently, I discuss issues related to practices of cross-dressingand 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 poeticsthat do not operate by the determinations of the psi sciences, generally triggered to erect concepts about the practice of cross-dressing.