Pain versus Pleasure: sexuality in women’s performance

sexuality in women’s performance

Authors

  • Aila Regina da Silva Universidade de São Paulo
  • Arthur Hunold Lara Universidade de São Paulo

Keywords:

Performance, Gender, Museum, Sexuality, Pain

Abstract

This article investigates the opposition of pain versus pleasure in the performances in the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo collection, from 1972 to 2021. The performance works analyzed share, as a major attribute, a relation to extreme physical limit. This study correlates the concepts of pain and pleasure with the advances and setbacks suffered by women socially, politically, and culturally in order to understand who are these women received into the museum. Also, we discuss women’s aesthetic construction in the history of art, considering the various intersections of gender, race, and class to comprehend the complex sexual web in women’s art.

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Author Biographies

Aila Regina da Silva, Universidade de São Paulo

Is a dance artist, holds a Master’s degree and is a doctoral student in Art in the Interunit Program in Aesthetics and Art History (PGEHA) at the University of São Paulo (USP). Her theoretical and artistic work addresses relevant topics such as decolonization and dance, study of cultures and cultural traces through body and performance. She coordinated the Dancing at the Museum project of mediation with dance at the Museum of Contemporary Art-MAC, 2016. She has been part of the board of the International Congress of Art, New Technologies and Communication (CIANTEC) since 2014; and of the FAUUSP research group Nebula, within CNPq. She has been a member of the Corpo Ciênico dance center since 2014.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1889-6813
Email: aila.silva77@gmail.comORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0827-7314
Email: arthurlara@usp.br

Arthur Hunold Lara, Universidade de São Paulo

Is an associate professor (Full Professor) at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU USP). He holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture and Urbanism from FAU USP (1983), a
specialization in Art Education from the School of Communications and Arts (ECA USP) (1990), a Master’s degree (1996) and a doctoral degree (2002) in Communication Sciences from ECA USP. Current vice-coordinator in the Interunit Postgraduate Program in Aesthetics and History of Art at the University of São Paulo (PGEHA USP). Coordinator of the NÉBULA CNPq Research Group and of the Didactic and Research Laboratory of Architectural Materials and Structures (LABMAT) at FAUUSP.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0827-7314
Email: arthurlara@usp.br

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Published

2023-04-20

How to Cite

Silva, A. R. da, & Lara, A. H. (2023). Pain versus Pleasure: sexuality in women’s performance: sexuality in women’s performance. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 13(2), 1–23. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/128788

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2023): Abr./Jun. 2023

Section

Performance Art and Public Intimacies

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