Abstract:
The research-creation proposed in this dissertation aims to investigate, narrate, and discuss experiences of performative programs conceived by the author and partner individuals between 2019 and 2022, influenced by intersecting relationships between gender, race, and class. The choice to denominate this study as research-creation is intended to avoid hierarchizing theoretical and practical processes, while simultaneously invoking and advocating the notion that these processes occur together and intrinsically. The research problem consists of the following inquiry: how to occupy and disrupt spaces of power through the creation and reflection on performative programs that emerge from a feminist thought aligned with anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic politics? The focus on the gender debate is proposed based on authors who align themselves with an intersectional perspective: Lorde (2019), Figueiredo (2020), Bilge and Collins (2021). In turn, the concept of the investigated performative program arises from the understanding of researcher Eleonora Fabião (2013), who proposes the performative program as the creation of a situation, problem, or political experimentation. Distinct methodologies are combined to navigate this research-creation: coreocartography by Dolores Galindo and Daniele Miliolli (2017); and cartography by Virgínia Kastrup and Eduardo Passos (2013) and by Suely Rolnik (2014). The tests and analysis of the performative programs presented here constitute a cartography of experiences that were traversed both by the author individually and in collaboration with other women.
