Mafalda Deville

courage to be vulnerable as a female artist
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Portugal °1976
research interests: contemporary dance, Contemporary performance, choreography and performance, feminism, feminist art, vulnerability, Technology Innovation, audiences
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I define the audience as, 'a way of seeing, thinking and engaging with the performing bodies, as well as articulating and theorizing the experiences through body perspectives positioned in a specific context'.

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  • Revisiting MAMA (last edited: 2020) author(s): Mafalda Deville This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    The journey of women in society. The Journey of being a mother and what does that represent in society. How do we have to behave? What is expected from a women, an artist, a wife, a mother and how separated are them?
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  • DO & DOCUMENT (last edited: 2021) author(s): Mafalda Deville This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Public reception is a prominent research area within the broad spectrum of cultural and media studies. A whole text, performance, media presupposes an audience and even sometimes even builds your own audience. According to Sonia Livingstone, public studies "focus on the interpretative relationship between the public and the environment, where this relationship is understood within a broad ethnographic context". It addresses questions like - where does the meaning of a text lie? Is it within the text or somewhere in the relationship between the text and the audience? Thus, public studies are fundamentally concerned with the process of interpretation and construction of meaning. The search for understanding the social role of mass media and the phenomenon of media consumption. Although it has always been there in research in communication, it became part of cultural studies in the 1980s with the works of Stuart Hall, especially the first essay Encoding / Decoding. That proposes mass communication, highlighting the importance of active interpretation within relevant codes.
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  • Research exposition (last edited: 2021) author(s): Mafalda Deville This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    An Activist work under the topic of domestic violence, a “hidden epidemic” during confinement, questioning between the public space and stage performance and their ability to communicate the activist event.
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