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FIA SOPHIA: PERFORMANCE and Doi Issn.2525-3123.Gis.2019.156575 ANTHROPOLOGY FIA SOPHIA: PERFORMANCE AND DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.11606/ issn.2525-3123.gis.2019.156575 ANTHROPOLOGY PEDRO OLAIA1 ORCID Universidade Federal do Pará, Bragança, PA, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5518-4837 68600-000 - [email protected] LUIS JUNIOR SARAIVA ORCID Universidade Federal do Pará, Bragança, PA, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-7658 68600-000 - [email protected] ABSTRACT This work aims to reflect on the theoretical and practical production of AUTHOR 1 researcher artist and the performances of Sophia, his drag queen, from the relationship with anthropology theorists, queer theory and arts at a transdisciplinary cross- road where theory dialogues with practice beyond academic walls interactions in search of social in- teraction and daily discussions about dissident bodies and the norms imposed on them. This pa- per proposes to present as performance narrative supplemented by agglutinations of textual nar- ratives with imaginary narratives, which detail three moments of Sophia in performative process- es from the immersive action of name “Fia Sophia”; these narratives detail unique moments in which Sophia interacts with other people - who participate in the performance in the game in which they collec- tively construct a greater state of fluidity and enjoy- ment of artistic manifestations, pulsating of ideas, KEYWORDS creations and diffusions of spontaneous and dialogic Performance; processes - and like the imagery record is much more selfetnography; gender; identity; appropriate as a ethnographic narrative to recording cabocla. ephemeral artistic moments. 1. Article developed during the scholarship granted to Pedro Olaia by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). 205 São Paulo, v. 4, n.1, p. 205-228, Oct. 2019 WITHAL TEXTUALIZATION Sophia2 is an Amazon3 drag queen4 who wants to talk about theories and practices of decolonization of the body through art; and so in this arti- cle we will observe drag performances as a dialogical instrument and methodology based on the coincidence and dissonance of theories about gender performativity in layer seams – of “masculine” and “feminine,” parodies of fantastical normative constructions and stereotyped binary discussions (Butler 2015, 215) – overlapping the amazon-body5 stigma- tized from the European colonial invasion. For this, we will relate So- phia’s performatic deconstruction6 as a whole of overlapping layers and connected to theories that dialogue about identities (Hall 2006, Fanon 2008), genders, sexualities (Butler 2015, Fernandes and Gontijo 2016), de- colonization (Escobar 2005, Rivera Cusicanqui 2010, Anzaldúa 2005) and anthropophagy (Campos 1981, Oiticica 1973), as well as the practices re- lated to the emergence of the immersive action in question and what are the possible consequences of this process (Conceição and Olaia 2017). We will focus more precisely on the immersive action Fia Sophia and its unfolding in three public events: the imaginary recordings of these actions, memories, and reflections on ethnography and public immer- sions as a practice of poetic and political resistance – or as Paulo Raposo (2015, 5) suggests an “artivism” as an act of “resistance and subversion [...] through poetic and performative strategies”. The Fia Sophia process began from improvisation theater games7 that we propose in a round-table discussion on the 4th Regional Meeting of Engi- neering and Social Development of the North Region (EREDS/NORTH) in 2017 at UEPA – Campus V, Center for Natural Sciences and Technology (CCNT) in Belém-PA. The round table meeting was named “oppressions on engi- neering”, and since I, Pedro Olaia, am graduated in Electrical Engineering 2. Pedro Olaia gets ready, trans-forms his own body and assumes the identity of Sophia, a drag queen whose poetic and political performances usually take place in everyday city life environments such as streets, markets and squares. 3. Identification next to the cabano movement that happens between peripheral inhab- itants of the Amazon of different ethnic groups and cultures with common social and economic problems and similar insurgencies (Rodrigues, 2009). 4. This identification of a non-binary gender performativity will be used throughout the text as a reference to Pedro Olaia’s body “assembled” like Sophia. The terms “drag”, “kitty” and “drag cuír” are also used – proposing a translation of the term “queer” (from English) from reflections on the Manifesto Queer Caboclo (Fernandes and Gontijo 2016). 5. We suggest here that amazon-body would be our native bodies of the region called by the colonizers as Amazon. We will discuss this self-identification later. 6. We are referring to the practice of Sophia’s “assemble” as deconstruction, from Juliana Jayme’s suggestion that the drag queen and other non-binary “assembled” body and mind in a “constant process of building and rebuilding their names, genres, identities, bodies” (Jayme 2010, 188). 7. Pedro Olaia is trained in theater and uses the theater games (scenic games) to interact with the public during the process of unfolding their performance actions. The improvi- sation techniques suggested by Augusto Boal (1982) are usually used in unique instants of friction of Sophia’s body with other bodies; the technical exercises of the theaterolo- gist facilitate the operationalization of the performance and the ease of Sophia’s scenic insights at the moment in which the situation is created and improvises from what happens after the created situation. 206 São Paulo, v. 4, n.1, Oct. 2019 and Sophia is my political resistance identity about dissident bodies, I was invited to talk about my experiences in engineering, that is my sto- ries and experiences as a gay person in the electrical engineering course and our performance processes with Sophia. In that round table there were the presence of Pedro Olaia and a mestizo woman (as she identified herself) who is of the feminist movement and Enviromental Engineering undergraduate student; to complete the round table, there was a media- tor to young gay undergraduate students of engineering who is from this course’s LGBTQI + movement. The conversation with the environmental engineering student begins with her asserting that the presence of women in engineering’s training courses and labor market is still subalternized by a heteropatriarchal discourse in which women are not able to study in areas that involve many calculations and so are not able to perform managing or command duties; continuing her dialogue, the student still talks about the occupation of these “masculine environment” spaces and reflects if we really are able to deconstruct the performativity of gender instituted hegemonically on our bodies from a male-female binary pat- tern, because the pattern’s characteristics and behaviors are attributed to a gender in detriment of another; the student also emphasized the diver- sity of genders, showing the colonization that influences directly our daily life, and the specificities of different feminist groups of different women (lesbians, blacks, trans, among others), as well as the recognition of de- colonizing practices to favor the dialogue about equal rights and the many possibilities of bodies outside the normativity. The picture below depicts a moment during the event, in which the mestizo engineering student shares a video with the audience confirm- ing what she had talked about previously: FIGURE 1 Video shared about heteropatriarcal perceptions on feminine body. Source: EREDS/North. 207 São Paulo, v. 4, n.1, Oct. 2019 Then, after the feminist-themed video presented (detail in the image above), I, as Pedro Olaia, shared some experiences as an electrical engi- neering student who lived a double life where I did not assume either a gay identification, either Sophia’s identification, like if I was living be- tween two very distinct worlds with two performative identifications: an identification close to the engineering student and man gender per- formative; and the other identification as a queer gender performative that is assembled8, a body that goes to the nightclub to show off9, and aquend10 the “boys”11 in the banheirão12 of UFPA. And to finish the dia- logue about gender and sexuality on engineering courses, the organiz- ers of the event invited us to present a performance, and so I proposed for us to display the video projection about the performance Primeira égua, trava carve: o enforcamento [First égua13, meat lock: the hanging]14 (Suelen, Olaia and Romário 2012); and while the scenes recorded – So- phia and Byxa do Mato hanging with the Brazilian Flag at the corner of GEMPAC – were shared, Sophia and me assembled the drag queen live between the projector and the screen, making a shadow that bothered and caught the present public’s attention. The symbolic representation of self-hanging with Brazil’s flag on the video projection refers to the muffled cries, the dissident bodies’ pains silenced, and also the resistance force of hanging, even though they are suffocated; the fags, the drag queens continue to sing the nation- al anthem for the “beloved” and “idolized” homeland which the hopes and progress’ golden verses become an ambivalence of freedom and im- prisonment. “Hail, hail!” Hail15 or save the flag, or the homeland, or the hangman, or the hanged? “Brazil, an intense dream” of this soil’s invis- ible sons that is not gentle at all. 8. Which is assembled, from the verb to assemble; getting ready; compose a drag queen from the technological resources available that transform the body into another body that distorts the male-female binary pattern. 9. Give a close close refers to show oneself, to see and be seen at the nightclub, cut a dash, getting dressed to kill. 10. From the verb “kuenda” from origin bantu. To aquend (“aquendar”, “akuendar”), in argot queer from Brazil, that means to hit on or get someone; aquend the boy, get the boy, to date someone else. 11. The word in English “boy” is a term in Brazil used to designate straight or homosexual men who perform the masculine identity.
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