Performativity and Expressive Dissent in Portugal in the 1980s and the case of Pop Dell'Arte

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  • Sandra Guerreiro Dias Universidade de Coimbra, Centro de Literatura Portuguesa; Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Escola Superior de Educação https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4414-9029

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/0870-4112_3-7_4

Keywords:

Portuguese Eighties, Performativity, Experimentalism, Post-avangarde, Pop Dell’Arte

Abstract

The analysis of a diverse set of sociability and cultural trends of the 1980s in Portugal allows us to observe the expansion of a dissident type of experimentalism and aesthetic performance which, going back to the vanguards of the early 20th century, is extended, in this decade, to the Portuguese culture. These demonstrations are an artistic expression in which performativity lato sensu plays a major role in the country's cultural and artistic renewal. The present study frames this phenomenon as a specific cultural manifestation of the Portuguese worldview in the 1980s, building up the paradigmatic case of the Pop Dell'Arte band as well as on possible historical reasons for its unfolding.

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Author Biography

Sandra Guerreiro Dias, Universidade de Coimbra, Centro de Literatura Portuguesa; Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Escola Superior de Educação

Sandra Guerreiro Dias (1981) é licenciada em Literaturas Modernas – var. Estudos Portugueses e mestre pré-Bolonha em História da Cultura Contemporânea (século XX) com tese sobre mudança social na literatura portuguesa do pós-25 de Abril. Atualmente é PhD Fellow do programa de doutoramento em Linguagens e Heterodoxias (CES/FLUC), realizando investigação sobre mudança cultural, poesia e artes da performance em Portugal nos anos 80.

 

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2021-07-12

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