A Piece of White(ness): the Color of Peace

Authors

  • Felipe Ribeiro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
  • Camila Simonin Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v9i2.28899

Keywords:

Black-Off, Transfiguration Act, Banho de Descarrego, whiteness, performance

Abstract

The paper analyzes the action of covering a body with the color white during the performances Black-Off, by Ntando Cele; Transfiguration Acts: disappearance or recipe for making a saint, by Antonio Obá, and Banho de descarrego: an urban anti-fascist performance, by Marcelo Denny and Marcos Bulhões. Such action is observed as a resource to understand in what ways whiteness can be revealed as a norm in the artistic field and its repercussions in the means of production, colonization processes, and governance.

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Author Biographies

Felipe Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Felipe Ribeiro pursued his Master in Cinema Studies at TISCH/NYU, and his PhD in Arts at the State University of Rio, partially completed abroad in the Performance Studies Department at NYU. Since 2011, Ribeiro runs Atos de Fala, a curatorial platform devoted to the production, research and dissemination of Lecture-performances. Ribeiro is professor and chair of the Dance Studies graduate program, teaching also in the undergrad. In the university, he also founded Traço – a lab of image and its performativities. Ribeiro researches impasse in its political and poetical dimensions. Currently, he is devoted to the series of performances and installations called Revolving Actions – partially developed at Roehampton University, in London, where Ribeiro was a visiting scholar throughout 2020. In 2022, Ribeiro launched, in Portuguese, the book Ruminações: a arte de performance entre o prazer e a resistência (Ruminations: performance art in between pleasure and resistance) and opened an exhibition at Cabaret Voltaire, in Zurich, together with Sarah Burger.

Camila Simonin, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Camila Simonin acts in the entanglements between dance, theater direction, movement studies, performance art and theory. In her research, she is currently looking into the question "What happens to the idea of progress when we start moving backwards?" by proposing public actions in New York City, where she lives, and also investigating authoritarian and far-right political movements in Brazil, her home country. She is currently an MA candidate at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Besides that, she holds an MA degree in Dance Studies – Performance and Performativities of Dance from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), she is a Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis Specialist and holds a BA in Performing Arts – Theater Direction at UFRJ. For more information, access https://www.camilasimonin.com/work.

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Published

12-12-2022

How to Cite

RIBEIRO, F.; SIMONIN, C. A Piece of White(ness): the Color of Peace. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 2, 2022. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v9i2.28899. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/28899. Acesso em: 24 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): Dossier “Insurgent Dramaturgies and Epistemologies in Dance”; Articles; Reviews

Section

Dossier: Insurgent Dramaturgies and Epistemologies in Dance

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