Objetos de poder y disputa simbólica en "Eva y Victoria" y en "Democracia em Vertigem"

Luciano Flávio De Oliveira

doi:10.69746/liminal.a72

Authors

Luciano Flávio De Oliveira Universidade Federal de Rondônia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3738-1797

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.69746/liminal.a72

Keywords:

objects of power, historical women, Argentina and Brazil, theater and documentary, democracy

Abstract

This article analyzes the symbolisms produced by objects of power in two artistic creations that address political tensions in 20th-century Argentina and contemporary Brazil from a gender perspective: the Buenos Aires stage production Eva and Victoria, written by Mónica Ottino (1990) and directed by Manuel González Gil, premiered in 2021 in Buenos Aires, and the Brazilian documentary The Edge of Democracy, directed and produced by Petra Costa in 2019. By focusing on various stage materials—such as costumes, props, and scenography—we observe how these objects convey ideological messages and representations of class and gender conflicts—even among women—shaped by specific historical and political circumstances. In both works, historical women figures like Eva Perón, Victoria Ocampo, and Dilma Rousseff face machismo and sexism that seek, through discourse or political force, to silence, diminish, erase, or invalidate them. The text aims to offer readers an interpretation of the representation of power, both from a metaphorical perspective and in relation to the concrete world, as well as the ways in which women act and struggle to claim their place in the public sphere. Finally, in methodological terms, we adopt a hybrid research approach that articulates elements of the semiotic (Baudrillard, 1969), qualitative and discursive (Foucault, 1979), as well as historiographical and gender studies (De Melo & Thomé, 2018; Da Cunha Marques, 2020; Villar, in press).

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Author Biography

Luciano Flávio De Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Rondônia

Adjunct Professor in the Undergraduate Theater Program at the Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR). Currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Postdoctoral Program in Human and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degree in Theater from the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). Specialist in the History of Culture and Art from Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Earned a Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts—with a focus on Theater Direction—from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP). At the same university, served as a substitute professor in the Performing Arts Program (Licentiate and Bachelor's degrees). Coordinated the Extension Program "DArtes [Em]Cena: Theater, Politics, Society" from 2018 to 2022. Currently coordinates the extension project "Trupe dos Conspiradores: Research and Practice in Staging and Acting", as well as the extension event "Staging Showcase of DArtes/UNIR". Also coordinates the research project "Contemporary Poetics of Staging: From the Living Encounter to the Technovivial in Theater, Puppet Theater, and the Classroom". External collaborator of the FILOCyT 22-035 project (Historical Women and Their Relationships with Power in Stage Constructions from 2010 to the Present), coordinated by Jimena Cecilia Trombetta at the Institute of Performing Arts (IAE), University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Member of "PAKYOp – Laboratory for Research in Theater and Transculturality: Praxis, Reflections, and Pedagogical Poetics", certified by CNPq. Member of the International Academy of Brazilian Literature (AILB), based in New York. Has experience in the field of Theater and the Arts, with emphasis on Staging, Acting, Improvisation, Puppet Theater, Theater Production, and Cultural Management.