The Performance Art That Became Octopus: Floating in the Waters of Arts in Hybrid and Unintelligible Corporalities

The performance in contemporary art has proved a powerful political-artistic tool to make visible corporalities at odds with heterosexual imperative. Ethnographic research was conducted for two years in a house of culture of Curitiba-PR, found body mixtures. The performance in that context was being understood as an octopus, a mixture of performance and octopus. We found a communicative power for the free expression of gender, to destabilize the coherent matrix of gender, or at least an escape from their normative and rigid models. The body tentacles give-and-take by various artistic languages ​​to send messages, to communicate life itself, to make visible your own queer attitude.

Performance Art; Communication; Queer