The theme of the research associated with this website is “Manifestations of sexuality in theatrical performance: aesthetic, ethical and political effects and consequences of sensual and erotic stimulation through exhibition and voyeurism”. The object of analysis is a corpus of texts and images, referring to national and international shows, as well as referring to other Arts, which display sexual elements in a more or less patent way, seeking to restore their functioning and function, considering that they certainly fulfill different projects. Information produced through online surveys is also collected to assess concepts, terms and discourses about the presence of sexuality in theatrical performance and other Arts, shared by artists and spectators. At the same time, selected shows and authors will be analyzed, seeking, through crossing with the remaining corpus, points of contact and difference and proceeding to their categorization within the scope of the discussion surrounding the manifestation of sexuality in the performance of the Arts, taking into account the context of the artistic work/invention and the fiction inherent to the invention.
Among the consequences that arise from this, we are particularly interested in the issue of conscious sexual manipulation and stimulation of the spectator through mechanisms of aesthetic and spectacular elaboration and the ethical and political repercussion, whether premeditated or not.
Theater (in its vast and wide-ranging vehicles), as a space for denunciation, questioning and social framing, has always oscillated between repression and permission. Sexuality, as a social concept, was born in the 19th century. XIX, when medicine became independent of the church. But the human being is inseparable from the sexual drive and impulse. In theater (in its vast and wide-ranging vehicles), manifestations and discourses of sexuality have always been, more or less evidently, associated with the stimulation – through fantasy, identification and/or projection – of individual and/or collective freedom. . On this website we intend to create an exchange of studies on the aesthetic, ethical and political effects and consequences of eroticism, voyeurism and exhibitionism in theatrical practices. We start from the premise that sexuality involves all the feelings and sensations that arise when someone says they are masculine or feminine. We also start from the current premise that the gender of each individual is not something natural but rather the result of a culture. Sexuality is not limited to the sexual organs and the sexual act. It is, rather, a way of being in a body as an individual with drives, impulses and sexual desires that are translated into each person’s way of thinking, feeling and acting.
© Bruno Schiappa
