The "revolt of the ferries": on performative silencing and protest immateriality in contemporary (in) visibility of urban outskirts

Authors

  • Paulo Raposo Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2016.116348

Keywords:

performance, “artivism”, urban riots, social movements, digital visual cultures, Niterói

Abstract

In this article I intend to think the intersection between public space, political performances and media transmission from the point of view of the anthropology of performance. Through the reading of an urban riot uprising which took place in 1959 in Niterói, The Revolt of the Ferries, I proposed to the participants in a workshop at the Fluminense Federal University in November 2014, a performative installation to revisit the riot memory and, above all, to reenact it from a political point of view considering the recent conflicts associated with the Free Pass Movement in Brazil. I start by analyzing a set of imagery of recent protests in Portugal, the United States, Spain and Brazil in order to find out similar traits in the performance of those political mobilization and in the answer given by the dominant power. “Artivism” emerges as a concept to be explored in contemporary political protests. Throughout the article I will try to highlight its activist performativity, its “carnavalization” effects and its possible articulations between repertoires and archives.

Translation: Barbara Theoto Lambert

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Author Biography

  • Paulo Raposo, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

    Doutorado em Antropologia e Professor no Departamento de Antropologia do ISCTE-IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) e foi Prof. Visitante na UFSC e na UFF. Foi membro da Direcção da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA) e fundador do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA). Membro da Comissão Editorial da revista Etnográfica (2000-2009).  Realizou várias investigações em Portugal, Espanha e Brasil trabalhando sobre temáticas como o corpo, ritual e performance, património e turismo e, no presente, na área dos movimentos sociais e das performances políticas. Co-autor do livro coletivo A terra do Não-lugar. Diálogos entre performance e antropologia (2013, EdUFSC). Colabora com diversas estruturas artísticas em Portugal, sobretudo no campo das artes performativas.

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Published

2016-06-23

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Raposo, Paulo. 2016. “The ‘revolt of the ferries’: On Performative Silencing and Protest Immateriality in Contemporary (in) Visibility of Urban Outskirts”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2016.116348.