Tzanelli, R (2014) Embodied art and aesthetic performativity in the London 2012 handover to Rio (2016). Global Studies Journal, 6 (2). 13 - 24 (11). ISSN 1835-4432
Abstract
I discuss the staged performances in the London 2012 handover to Rio de Janeiro as marketable revisions of Brazil’s colonial history that lead to the artistic display of ideal types and ethnic characters for global audiences. Rio 2016’s project was placed in the hands of privileged urban natives (artistic directors) but based upon the aesthetic of socio-cultural marginality (black ‘racial types’, samba dancers, capoeira and Candomblé performers,‘bad men’). Communicating metropolitan Brazil’s attachment to European artistic narratives, the ceremony enmeshed all these types and styles into Rio’s self-presentation as a tourist ‘topos’ that was born out of past global mobilities of humans, customs and labour.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 (individual papers), the author © 2014 (selection and editorial matter) Common Ground. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Readers must seek permission to reproduce. |
Keywords: | Audio-visual performativity; enlightenment; Olympic ceremonies |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2014 12:04 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2018 17:59 |
Published Version: | http://onglobalisation.com/publications/journal |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Common Ground Publishing |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:77899 |