“Transit between closets: encounters between activism, HIV and art in Brazil (2023)” by Salvador Pereira Campos Corrêa Junior | PhD Dissertation

Abstract: “This thesis results from an investigation with the general objective of understanding the transits between art, activism, and health in the life narratives of artists living with HIV who bring the theme of HIV and AIDS to their artistic works. To achieve this purpose, I resort to life narratives, starting with my own in search of (mis)encounters from the transit between different social closets, diving into concepts such as closet epistemology (Sedgwick, 2007) and artivism (Chaia, 2007; Machado, 2019; Baldissera, 2019). In the search for methodological paths, I bring reflections on qualitative research, with the awareness that I am involved in what is familiar to me (Velho, 1978). I find in ethnosociology the life narratives proposed by Bertaux (2010) a light to guide the interviews and the analysis of information, producing data through narrative conversations. The interviews occurred remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022. This research reaches the following considerations art, as a social antiretroviral, has a force in deconstructing ideological viruses (Daniel, 2018) and in the revival of social deaths (Daniel, 2018) with the production of displacements and transformations. In the process of living artists that I call participating artist-authors here, ancestry is an artistic source in an artistic continuum. Finally, the field of health has the challenge of incorporating even more art into its research processes and production of knowledge to explore the infinite possibilities that the field health and art can bring to response stigmatized diseases.”

 

This PhD dissertation, authored by Salvador Pereira Campos Corrêa Junior and supervised by Prof. Dr. Marcos Antônio Ferreira do Nascimento, was defended in 2023 as part of theGraduate Program in Child and Women’s Health and the Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. A copy of the dissertation is available in Portuguese at Brazil’s Health Virtual Library.

ANO

2023

AUTORES

Salvador Pereira Campos Corrêa Junior

EDITORES

Prof. Dr. Marcos Antônio Ferreira do Nascimento