Aquilo que projetamos: uma análise discursiva de intervenções artísticas LGBTQIAP+

Abstract

This research has the objective of analyzing three LGBTQIAP+ videos mapping by the group Projetemos as a form of artistic intervention and activism in urban spaces, based on Materialist Discourse Analysis. Our corpus is thus composed of projections that articulate art, image, and language in the (re)production of meanings. Our analysis seeks to reveal, when addressing issues of gender and sexuality, the way how artistic discourse reproduces relations of domination and resistance, functioning as a space for contesting the social and ideological norms imposed by the Ideological State Apparatus (Althusser, 2009). Our study highlights how art and the body, in relation to the role of ideology in our social formation during the COVID-19 pandemic, become forms of resistance in the struggle for visibility and recognition of non-normative identities. The circulation of these projections, both physically and on social media, amplifies their political power, reaffirming art in its discursive practice capable of intervening in reality, producing memory, and reinforcing the struggle for recognition and dignity for LGBTQIAP+ people. In the analytical process, we mobilize concepts from Materialist Discourse Analysis to understand the set of possible meanings that, in their historicity, regulate what can and cannot be said (Pêcheux, 2014). We also highlight the notion of interdiscourse, which refers to what has already been said that sustains and permeates all speech, constituting discursive memory. The analysis also seeks to highlight the functioning of language in its constitutive heterogeneity as a place occupied by the subject within discursive formations, which determine the possibilities of meaning. In addition, we observe the functioning of ideology in projections by interpellating individuals as subjects sustaining relations of domination and allowing the emergence of processes of resistance.