The name as passage: queering language in performance
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-3999.v16i1p69-86Keywords:
Queering language, Improvisation, Naming, Performativity, Regimes of powerAbstract
This article investigates the practice of queering language as an aesthetic and political operation in contemporary performance. Starting from the notion of naming as a historical technology of separation and hierarchization, it proposes a shift toward the idea of traversal, where signifier and signified no longer coincide in a stable way. Through a theoretical-practical approach that articulates conceptual reflection and artistic experimentation, it analyzes tactics such as improvisation, repetition, and détournement. It argues that performance can operate as a laboratory of semantic instability, in which the body tensions and reinscribes regimes of intelligibility.
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