The Artistic Methods as a Way to Look at the Possibilities of Construction of Gender and its Relations

Authors

  • Joana P. Cruz Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto
  • Carla Malafaia Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto
  • José Eduardo Silva Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (CEHUM), Universidade do Minho
  • Isabel Menezes Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto

Keywords:

Photovoice, Dating Violence, Arts-based Research, Collaborative Research, Gender

Abstract

The Artistic Methods as a Way to Look at the Possibilities of Construction of Gender and its Relations – Based on a collaborative action-research project with a high school class, we discuss the possibilities that artistic methodologies bring to collective analysis and reflec-tions in order to promote youth political consciousness. Through moments of aesthetic-political exploration, in which the Theatre of the Oppressed and Photovoice were mobilised, the young people reflected on their everyday experiences and problems, with dating violence emerging as the most significant theme. Local actors were added to the joint reflection between the young people, and visual narratives made by two groups were discussed. This article recognises the potential of the arts to problematise gender relations and constructions, to emotionally and subjectively involve par-ticipants, and as a way of politicising an ‘apparent’ individual problem.

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Author Biographies

Joana P. Cruz, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto

Joana P. Cruz is a PhD Researcher at the Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Uni-versidade do Porto (FPCEUP). She has conducted arts-based research to under-stand youth Civic and Political Participation, social movements, and power rela-tions in institutional settings. She co-coordinates the Porto Theatre and Politics Laboratory, a space for theatre experimentation with a specific focus on the Thea-tre of the Oppressed.

Carla Malafaia, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto

Carla Malafaia is an Assistant Researcher at the Centro de Investigação e Inter-venção Educativas (CIIE), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP). She has developed and coordinated research in the areas of youth political participation, mobilising mixed, participatory and visual methodologies, including the evaluation of community-based artistic pro-jects.

José Eduardo Silva, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (CEHUM), Universidade do Minho

José Eduardo Silva is an actor, theatre director, researcher at the Centro de Es-tudos Humanísticos and assistant professor of Theatre at the Universidade do Minho (CEHUM) in Braga, Portugal. His research interests intersect theatrical artistic creation, psychological development and social transformation. He pos-sesses a degree in Theatre Studies (Universidade Politécnica do Porto) and a PhD in Psychology from FPCEUP. 

Isabel Menezes, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto

Isabel Menezes has a bachelor’s degree in Theatre (ESAP), a degree and a doc-torate in Psychology and an aggregation in Educational Sciences (U.Porto). She is a Full Professor at the Department of Educational Sciences – OEI Chair in Edu-cation for Citizenship/Global and is the director of the CIIE – Centro de Investi-gação e de Intervenção Educativas na Universidade do Porto. She has developed projects on the civic and political participation of children, youth and adults, with a special interest in the relationship between community art and politics.

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Published

2024-04-29

How to Cite

Cruz, J. P., Malafaia, C., Silva, J. E., & Menezes, I. (2024). The Artistic Methods as a Way to Look at the Possibilities of Construction of Gender and its Relations. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 14(2). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/138466

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2024): Abr./Jun. 2024

Section

Performance and Gender I

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