MEDEA: experience in video performance

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2023.201593

Keywords:

Medea, Video performance, Feminisms, Napedra, Motim

Abstract

Written in first person, this text aims to present the video performance MEDEA, performed by Luciana Lyra, directed by Ana Cecília Costa for the text by Newton Moreno. Created in 2021, the videographic action, with duration of 18 minutes, seeks inspiration in images from German and Brazilian woodcuts, with expressionist tones, to account for the dense narrative that unfolds about this iconic character of Greek tragedy, revisited here in a Brazilian context. Since MEDEA, in this video-performed narrative, is a northeastern woman in the diaspora to the Brazilian Southeast, the work ends up denouncing the state of oppression suffered by migrant women, giving feminist contours to the artistic action, a sign of the performances and staging championed by Lyra, a member of Napedra (Nucleus of Anthropology, Performance and Drama – Universidade de São Paulo), since 2004, and founder of the research group Motim – Mito, Rito e Cartografias Feministas nas Artes (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, CNPq – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ), in 2015.

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Author Biography

  • Luciana Lyra, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

    Luciana Lyra is an actress, director, playwright, and writer. She is a coordinator and permanent faculty member of the Postgraduate Program in Arts at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), associate professor of the Department of Art Teaching and Popular Culture, at the Institute of Arts of the same university. Collaborating Professor in the Post-Graduation Programs in Scenic Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). PhD in Anthropology (FFLCH/USP) and PhD in Performing Arts (UFRN). Master and PhD in Scenic Arts (IA/UNICAMP). Researcher leader of the MOTIM – Myth, rite and feminist cartographies in the Arts (UERJ/CNPq), research Group. Founding artist of the studio Unaluna – Research and Creation in Art – SP. Websites: https://amotinadas.wixsite.com/motim http://www.unaluna.art.br/http://www.lucianalyra.com.br/. Email: lucianalyra@gmail.com

References

Motim mito rito cartografias feministas nas artes. 2022. “MEDEA – Luciana Lyra”. YouTube, 15:20. https://bit.ly/3UtuQ3g

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Published

2023-03-31

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023)

Section

Gesture, image and sounds

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How to Cite

Lyra, Luciana. 2023. “MEDEA: Experience in Video Performance”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 8 (1): e201593. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2023.201593.