Body, image and cross-dressing: an analysis of Duchamps and Journiacs masquerade

• Grant number: 13/21735-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
• Grantee: Vitor Pinheiro Grunvald
• Supervisor: Amelia G. Jones
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Abstract

In this research, I aim to discuss some artists who operationalize cross-dressing and a female (alter) ego in their works, such as Marcel Duchamp/Rrose Sélavy and Michel Journiac. What is at stake is how the practice of cross-dressing is marked by a manipulation of some diacritical signs - clothes, ornaments, but also body, gestures and performances - in order to make a different and creative use of the norms and how this differential use subverts the underlying principles of the very norms out of which they arise and that make them possible and significant. (AU)