This work is financed by national funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the project «SFRH/BPD/117096/2016»
The essence of eroticism results
from the inextricable association of sexual pleasure with the interdict.
Never, humanly, the interdict appearswithout revelation of the pleasure,
nor the pleasure without the feeling of the interdict.
Georges Bataille, in, L'Erotisme
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| Inner Shadows, Bruno Schiappa, 1981 |
Theater, as a space of denounciation,
questioning and social framing, always oscillated between repression and
permission. Sexuality, as a social concept, was born in the 18th century, when
medicine becomes independent of the church. But the human being is inseparable
from the drive and sexual impulse. In the theater, the manifestations and
discourses of sexuality have always been more or less evident, associated with
the stimulus - through fantasy, identification and/or projection – of
individual and/or collective freedom. In this site we intend to create an
exchange of studies on the effects and consequences of aesthetic, ethical and
political order of the eroticism, voyeurism and exhibitionism, in theatrical
practices. We start from the premise that sexuality involves all the feelings
and sensations that come to mind when someone says, either, “I am male” or “I
am female”. 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 only to the sexual organs and the sexual act. It is rather a
form of being in a body as a person with sexual drives that bear on each
person's way of thinking, feeling and acting.
