Stripping Time

erotic-political rifts in the performance project Strip Tempo - contemporary stripteases

Authors

  • Lia da Rocha Lordelo Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia - UFRB
  • Jorge Alencar Universidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA

Keywords:

Striptease, Nudity, Erotica, Memory, Archive

Abstract

This article instigates relations between an artistic creation and its composition with a political time by examining the artistic project Strip Tempo – contemporary stripteases (2018). The live version of the project premiered the same week Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. Its online configuration, Web-Strips (2021), took place during the pandemic. The text begins with a political and aesthetic contextualization of these performances; then, contributions from psychoanalysis and burlesque arts, along with the notion of performative archive, dialogue with the artistic proposition of stripteases. The conclusion affirms that the stripteases – in their live and remote versions – aesthetically and erotically summarize the trajectories of these contemporary artists. They also mobilize discussions about the naked body – whether as the last frontier of an ultra-conservative morality in Brazil, or as an experience that expresses an erotic drive in the arts.

 

 

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Author Biographies

Lia da Rocha Lordelo, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia - UFRB

Is a professor of Artistic Languages and Psychology. She has a master’s in Education, Philosophy and History of the Sciences from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA/UEFS) (2007), and a doctorate in Social Psychology from the Graduate Program in Pyschology of UFBA. She has experience and training in Performing Arts, mainly through the group Dimenti, and for more than 15 years has been an actress, dancer, and singer in artistic performances.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9854-4879
E-mail: lialordelo@gmail.com

Jorge Alencar, Universidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA

Creates with dance, film, theater, curatorship, writing and education. He has a bachelor’s degree in social communication and in dance, and a master’s in the performing arts. In 1998 he founded the performance company Dimenti – ambiente de criação artística e produtora cultural –, which is based in
Salvador (BA).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7580-6250
E-mail: jorgealencarjorge@gmail.com

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Published

2023-04-20

How to Cite

Lordelo, L. da R., & Alencar, J. (2023). Stripping Time: erotic-political rifts in the performance project Strip Tempo - contemporary stripteases . Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 13(2), 1–21. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/128994

Issue

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

Section

Performance Art and Public Intimacies

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