https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/2026 Sat, 16 May 2026 19:48:04 GMT 2026-05-16T19:48:04Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44455 Circo de Estrelas: empoderamento de mulheres sob a lona Cafezeiro Leite, Viviane da Silva Menezes Correia Alcântara, Paulo Henrique This research is aimed at analyzing the development of a cultural public project under the traditional canvas and its contribution to make circus women occupy a prominent place in the traveling circus, it also provided ways to promote the broadening of horizons of artistic performance and its role. The starting point was the investigation of the profile and history of women in the traditional circus and to identify the main strategies of the project Empoderamento das Mulheres de Circo (Empowerment of Women in Circus) through the analysis of the executions and reverberations of the workshops on Women’s Rights Initiation to Female Clowning that are part of the action, besides the understanding of clowning and its role in promoting the protagonism of women in circus. In this sense, this exploratory research develops a case study of the cultural project using bibliographical and documentary research as its methodology. As it is a field study, the data collection was made through interviews, forms and systematic observations. The treatment of the information was made through a qualitative approach in which was possible to identify the importance of strengthening the social artistic of these women and to understand clowning as a propeller of female subjectivity in the process of repositioning the artists in the universe of circus. It was a successful experience even in the face of the structural precariousness resulting from the negligible reception of nomadic families by the public authorities. Finally, by means of all the studies and paths taken it is possible to affirm that developing the project under the tent of Dallas Circus provided the opportunity for the participating circus women to resound their laughter in the arena, a space historically reserved exclusively for men. Keywords: Circus; Empowerment; Female Clowning; Protagonism; Feminism. Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação Fri, 24 Aug 0008 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44455 0008-08-24T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44113 A cena crítica: pensar com obras quebradas Guerra, Daniel Freire Leahy Moura, Gilsamara This thesis proposes the notion of critical scene to account for a dimension of contemporary art that consists of articulating criticism in two simultaneous ways: one directed at society and the other that internally animates the structures of the works. Broken works, as we propose, are analyzed as moments of problematic aesthetic events that contain crisis within themselves. Thinking with these works, as the subtitle articulates, means recognizing that within them the- re is an aesthetic thought that can confront hegemonic logics of the administered world. We insert ourselves into the current debate between politics, aesthetics, art, and criticism mainly through the path opened by the philosopher Jacques Rancière. To get to the heart of the epis- temological problems of art theory and to develop a vision of the structures of works capable of resisting dominant discourses, the historical and intimate relationship between Critical Theory and psychoanalysis is explored, respectively from Theodor W. Adorno and Jacques Lacan. Here we find the concepts of fetish and fantasy, as well as the register of the real, as theorized by Lacan. In the development of the thesis, the aim is to think with four contempo- rary works through an immanent and event-based analysis. From each one, its main critical procedures are isolated and theorized, glimpsed in the constitution of the language articulated by each aesthetic event. These works are: Matadouro, by Demolition Incorporada; Iluminai os Terreiros, by Nuno Ramos; La Bête, by Wagner Schwartz; and Quaseilhas, by Diego Araúja and Plataforma Araká. In conclusion, these procedures are compared, questioning the critical relevance and effectiveness of each, as well as their functioning together within the specific historicity of these first decades of the 21st century. Universidade Federal da Bahia Tese Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44113 2025-12-17T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43941 ECOPERFORMANCE AUDIOVISUAL ENTRE RIOS: CORPOREIDADE MAIS-QUE-HUMANA DE CORPO-RIO A CORPO-JUCU Cooper Neto, Weber Miranda Santana, Ivani Lúcia Oliveira de This dissertation investigates the interrelations among corporeality, ecoperformance, and the audiovisual, seeking to understand how ecoperformative practices can contribute to the creation of post-anthropocentric imaginaries amid the contemporary environmental crisis. It starts from the urgency of rethinking relations between humans and more-than-humans within the horizon of the Anthropocene, mobilizing art as a sensitive and political activation of other modes of existence. The path articulates performative and audiovisual practices that emerge from the body–environment relation, focusing on two rivers of Espírito Santo —Itapemirim and Jucu — and concentrates on the analysis of two works conceived within this research: CORPO-RIO and CORPO-JUCU. The methodological approach integrates Autoethnography, Somatic-Performative Research, and a view of the audiovisual as a somatic mediator and co-agent of dramaturgy, close to video-ecoperformance. The works are examined as aesthetic-political experimentations that activate haptic visuality, cinema of flow, kinaesthetic perception in screendance, and a cosmopolitics of the image, dissolving boundaries between body, nature, and technique and redistributing agency in the sensible field. Conceptually, the research updates the notion of ecoperformance and situates it vis-à-vis the disputes of the Anthropocene and proposals of making-with and response-ability, alongside a historical-critical reading of the event. The results point to the power of the audiovisual as an ethical-aesthetic mediator in ecoperformance, capable of activating modes of ecological perception and imagination that expand the performative experience beyond the space-time of live action. By making relations between bodies, rivers, and landscapes exist this dissertation proposes audiovisual ecoperformance as a practice that not only represents but also fosters sensitive alliances between human and more-than-human, contributing to the strengthening of critical imaginaries in the face of Anthropocene challenges. We take as our reflective horizon the set of theoretical contributions by the following authors: Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek (2007, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023); Ciane Fernandes (2013, 2014, 2018); Marta Bezerra (2011); Leonardo Paulino (2020); Gabriela Holanda (2019); Elizabeth Doud (2018, 2022); Éden Peretta (2005, 2007); André Lepecki (2012, 2013, 2017); Erin Manning and Brian Massumi (2014); Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (2024); Stenio Marras and Renzo Taddei (2022); Jason W. Moore (2022); Bruno Latour (2020); Donna Haraway (2022, 2023); Anna Tsing (2019, 2020); Débora Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2014); Isabelle Stengers (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022); Ailton Krenak (2020a, 2020b, 2022); Inara Macedo (2015); Maria Cecilia Barbieri Gorski (2008); César Baio (2020); Sebastian Wiedemann (2020); Laura U. Marks (2000); Lilian Graça (2019); Erly Vieira Junior (2020, 2021). Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43941 2025-12-19T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43730 Memórias do CPC baiano: cultura e resistência na Bahia dos anos 60 Couto, Carluce Couto Tavares, Gil Vicente de Marques This research investigates the trajectory of the Popular Culture Center (CPC) of Bahia, active from 1962 to 1964, focusing on its cultural activities and social impact. The study primarily uses oral testimonies from its members, due to the destruction of documents during the military coup of 1964, which abruptly ended the movement and resulted in the loss of records, including those that were discarded for fear of reprisals. Emerging during a period of cultural and political effervescence in Salvador, the Bahian CPC brought together artists, intellectuals, and students committed to a political pedagogy oriented towards popular culture. The research covers initiatives in theater, music, cinema, visual arts, and popular education, highlighting impactful theatrical productions and the application of Paulo Freire's literacy method. The study aims to recover and understand the historical and cultural significance of the CPC in Bahia, contributing to filling gaps in the historiography of the movement. Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43730 2024-08-20T00:00:00Z