Rupturas identitárias nas fronteiras entre a carne e o silício: existências dissidentes de gênero e suas montações experimentais de si

Abstract

This research analyzes the processes of identity (de/re)configuration carried out by gender-dissident existences that, through experimental practices of self-assemblage constituted within flows between the virtual and beyond-the-screen realms, produce ruptures in hegemonic conceptions of gender, body, and subjectivity. Throughout this trajectory, an insurgent stance toward scientific practice is adopted, grounded in a queer-oriented epistemological conglomerate that mobilizes the propositions of Judith Butler and Paul B. Preciado in articulation with Donna Haraway’s cyborg feminism and Antonio da Costa Ciampa’s elaborations on identity-metamorphosis. Also interwoven into this framework are the contributions of constellational thinking and montage-knowledge, as formulated by Walter Benjamin and Georges Didi-Huberman. The theoretical-methodological approach is marked by hybridity and multidimensionality, taking the non-binary multi-artist Guika as its central axis of analysis. The method consists of the creation of a visual atlas inspired by Aby Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne, in which heterogeneous images are juxtaposed on panels that constellate anachronistic relations, thereby tensioning positivist logics of knowledge. Open and processual, the atlas foregrounds “montação/monstração” as an aesthetic-political technology of self-production. Traversed by the figure of the flaneur and David Lapoujade’s notions of the witness and the advocate, the work sustains an ethical, aesthetic, and political stance committed to the affirmation of dissident existences. By reclaiming the metamorphic and hybrid potency of “montação/monstração”, the research projects a horizon of radical identity emancipation and the fabulation of other possible worlds.