Abstract:
This paper proposes a reflection on gender issues involving female clowning practices, based on the coexistence and interviews with a group of female clowns in Brazil. It develops the idea that social discourses forge bodies and gender standards, therefore crossing the creative processes in clowning. Founded on the concept of parodistic practices developed by Judith Butler, this work aims to think on the processes of female clowning in its character of parody of oneself, as well as on its reverberations in the creation of a critic and non-self-derogatory comicality. The concept of parody is proposed based on the works of Judith Butler, Linda Hutcheon and Giorgio Agamben as a way of outlining the notion of parody in the quality of critical detachment, and in the possibility of affecting the female artists’ modes of subjectivation.
Keywords:
Gender; Female clowning; Parody; Subjectivity