THE PROSTHETIC BODY: PERFORMANCE AND DISBELIEF
performance art, gender, disbelief, prosthesis, prosthetic body
Starting from an understanding of performance as action-thought, this dissertation discusses a series of performances of disbelief. In a dynamic that implies the prosthetic body and the mechanisms of gender writing, we seek an understanding of the metalinguistic performance of the prosthesis, its aesthetic, political and pedagogical aspects. Thus, privileging the dialogue between performance studies and concepts of poststructuralist philosophy, each chapter is dedicated to the reading of works that propose, with particular intensity, a critique of gender as a mechanism imposed in a complex network of economic, political and social relations. Social Highlighting the image, gesture and operation as metacritical procedures of the prosthesis on itself, it is argued that the prosthetic body, on the verge of becoming another, not only experiences gender as a machine, but unfolds as an agent of zones of prosthesis. disbelief in relation to a fabric of knowledge that produces identities, significant practices and positions of enunciation from genitality (cisnormativity).