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anonymous choral collectivities, media technologies and gender in Angélica Freitas and Cindy Sherman

Abstract

Based on the notion of chorality proposed by Flora Süssekind, we seek to investigate how gender issues and media technology configurations are articulated in 3 poemas com auxílio do Google by Angélica Freitas, the fifth section of the book Um útero é do tamanho de um punho (2012), having as a counterpoint the series of stills that Cindy Sherman produced between 1977 and 1980, a key work in the feminist artistic production of that period. The relationship between the works of Freitas and Sherman occurs insofar as they articulate normative representations of gender with the hegemonic media of their respective contexts: the internet (and a fortiori social networks), in the case of the Brazilian, and cinema (and by extension television), in the case of the American. At the same time, they seem to dialogue with historical forms of their respective artistic disciplines, the poetic forms of mote e glosa and the tradition of narrative painting, respectively. Finally, we will attempt to reformulate the historical distance between these works within the broader panorama of contemporary Brazilian culture and society, which we have described based on what we call, in dialogue with the classic concept of Angel Rama (1985), the ruins of the city of letters.