NOW SUCK THIS MANGO - THE POST COCKTAIL SCENE: AIDS INTERFACES IN THE PERFORMING ARTS
AIDS, Performing Arts, Discursive Epidemic, Metaphor, Post Cocktail
AGAINST INDICATIONS This work reads AIDS as a metaphor and defends the use of metaphor based on the construction by the author Susan Sontag (2007). Here I present some provocations in the shape of a drop, a reactive drop of the research fluids in which we discuss the poetic representations of AIDS in the performing arts and how they interact with elements intrinsic to a culture characterized by the male domain, by the social disparities between the borders of gender, class and race. This dose that I present to you is a compilation of writings in the form of essays, shell, pulp and lump from the research on the notion of “post cocktail” elaborated by Alexandre Nunes (2015). In this writing I make a reflective report and dialogue in first person about the field experiences that were carried out between 2018 and 2020 and its reverberations for this research in the practical and theoretical field. When taking these doses, I see very questionable demarcations of territories about the lack of protagonism of HIV-positive artists talking about the theme of "AID$" and how the notion of post-cocktail can be read as a possible representation for the discursive examination at epidemy in the arts of scene in Brazil. This representation dialogues with the idea of a “discursive epidemic” reflected by Marcelo Secron Bessa (1997) and both appear in the literary field, being contaminated here in a context in which the epidemic occurs within the national scope of the performing arts. I try to take a post-cocktail look at the performing arts, and I exemplify how this notion influences the reading of creative processes and in my case in a dialectic between the erotic and the political. I conclude our rehearsed conversation in the description of Contaminated Practices, a topic that brings together activities still in data analysis, which exposes the artistic, pedagogical and informative practices of the research in progress, which will continue in motion even after his post graduate defense. Finally, I discuss the idea of Side Affection, whose main reverberation is the performance Agora Chupa Essa Manga.