Banca de DEFESA: AROLDO SANTOS FERNANDES JUNIOR

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STUDENT : AROLDO SANTOS FERNANDES JUNIOR
DATE: 16/10/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Salvador
TITLE:

BRICKS, AFFECT AND QUEER PERFORMATIVITY ON THE INTERNET:

Dissident bodies and their precarious dramaturgy in becoming

KEY WORDS:

Precariousness; Becoming; Dissident Bodies; Dramaturgy; YouTube.

PAGES: 239
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Artes
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos e Crítica das Artes
SPECIALTY: Crítica da Arte
SUMMARY:

The present research has YouTube as a space that allows us to think about the
importance of creating and reformulating values. Thus, the investigation of the effects,
narratives, and discourses that are generated by the production of queer video
performances, based on the culture of fans, and posted in this media environment,
claims a possible “Dramaturgy of precariousness in Becoming”, always updated by
affective and performative references and their consequent articulations in the context
of the internet. The chosen artists for this study are Saullo Berck from the city of
Barbalha (CE) and Royce Cherdan Lee from the city of Cebu (Philippines). In their
video performances, issues related to the Image; to the Body; to the Affections; to the
Topos are observed, and the perception of its connections between representational
visibility and political power. Both artists have a vast production that is constantly being
resized. They work with improvisation to create their video performances and make use
of what they have in their homes, in the do-it-yourself style, already so established as a
practice on YouTube. The videos by Saullo Berck and Royce Cherdan Lee
demonstrate the affective, emotional, and habitual engagement of pop culture
narratives with their target audience. There are two methodologies that guide this
research, namely: virtual ethnography, considering the sharing platform YouTube, as
an environment in which video performances are broadcast. Autoethnography and
Performative Writing as thesis writing procedures, which put the researcher in selfassessment
of their experiences, evoking worlds of memory, pleasure, and sensations
to operate metaphorically and then observe the field studied. In this sense,
Performative Writing makes it possible to understand written text also as a scene, as a
performance. With this methodological thought, this research takes an interpretive and
qualitative approach to the work of youtubers aiming at the production of knowledge in
Performing Arts from four conceptual categories, they are: Body, Affection, Topos, and
Action. It is observed that interpretive research is fundamental to understand these
artistic products and their specificities, as well as the theoretical horizon is organized in
an attempt to contribute and guide so that all the information that is necessary during
the process is articulated from a complex, seductive, fast, attractive reality and be
confronted and presented, adding knowledge to the field of studies of Performing Arts.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1348097 - ANTONIA PEREIRA BEZERRA
Interno - 2091873 - LEONARDO JOSE SEBIANE SERRANO
Externo à Instituição - ALBERTO FERREIRA DA ROCHA JUNIOR - UFSJ
Externa à Instituição - IARA CERQUEIRA LINHARES DE ALBUQUERQUE - UESB
Externo à Instituição - WILTON GARCIA SOBRINHO