Reimagining Gender: Artistic Interventions in the Field of Masculinities

Abstract

Reimagining Gender: Artistic Interventions in the Field of Masculinities

In this paper we situate the discussion on gender and masculinities in the context of their hierarchical qualifications and disqualifications of our humanness. Taking as a point of departure the structural and structuring violence that marks postcolonies, such as Brazil, we question the dynamics of racial-gendered violence that reproduce the imbricated norms, standards and pacts of hegemonic masculinities. In this way, we propose a dialogue with peripherized artistic-cultural practices that reshape how we incorporate such idealizations of gender. To this end, we focus on the production of the performance Na Manha – developed within the scope of the artistic residency of the GlobalGRACE (Global Gender and Cultures of Equality) research-action project, with the Dance Company Passinho Carioca and under the direction of the dance collective Mulheres ao Vento (Women in the Wind) in Rio de Janeiro.