Musical artivism and feminisms: art and politics in the visual disputes and concerning the right to exist of the sexual and gender dissidence

Abstract

In an interview given to Reciis (Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação & Inovação em Saúde – Electronic Journal of Communication, Information & Innovation in Health), Fiocruz, Brazil, the scientist Rose de Melo Rocha reveals how her studies are based on an embodied knowledge that spreads over her acting as reseacher, professor and citizen. In her intellectual trajectory, she searches for a thinking on communication as a bonding process that has ‘affective’ and subjective implications for themes such as urban and youthful cultures, and audiovisuals. Such thematic approaches intersect as well come together in her recent studies about corporality and sexual and gender dissidence. Rose de Melo Rocha observes the entertainment and particularly what she calls the ‘gender musical artivism’ and she see them as a field of rupture regarding the art and an activist posture that poses under discussion the institutional politics. The singers Pabllo Vittar and Linn da Quebrada are seen as emblematic protagonists and dissidents in audiovisual disputes, building others audiovisuals as projections of attainable utopias. What is important to the researcher and to groups with she has alliances is go beyond the discourse of resistance so that to strengthen the right to exist, the right to the presence. In this sense, she advocates a feminism that is not restricted to an identity essentialism. Rose de Melo Rocha is a professor and reseacher in the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Práticas de Consumo at Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing de São Paulo (ESPM/SP), Brazil.