BIA FERREIRA’S ARTIVISM IN THE ALBUM IGREJA LESBITERIANA, UM CHAMADO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DISCOURSES AND PERSONS IN THE PRESENT TIME

Abstract

This paper shows how Bia Ferreira developed her understanding of artivism in the album Igreja Lesbiteriana, Um chamado, released in 2019. To do this, some tools of exploratory and bibliographic research are used, as the works of Sá (2006), Aldeman (2009), Lyotard (2009), Santiago (2009), and Costa (2016) to discuss artivism as a new form of discourse belonging to the postmodern category, and also Chaia (2007), Raposo (2014), and Bordin (2015) to define what one could understand as artivism nowadays. The discussion exposes that artivism as an artistic and cultural movement is already being practiced since the sixties, in the wave of the social, political and cultural movements that occurred in those years, however, the proper word used to name it is a case of neologism involving art and activism and has only gained wide acknowledgment in middle of the nineties with the increase of the artistic communication through the internet. Therefore, the paper conclusion points to the understanding that the Bia Ferreira’s artivism is mostly conveyed by the social network what characterizes her work by its digital feature, and by the analyze of the album it is possible to perceive that the Brazilian artist is a social critic interested in collaborating to the identity’s self-affirmation of people by their racial and sexual manifestations.

 Keywords: Postmodernism. Artivism. Bia Ferreira. Black Woman Music.