Lana Del Rey, a sweet serial killer: fellowship, sublimation e catharsis at the Lollapalooza Brazil

Authors

  • Cláudio Rodrigues Coração UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
  • William David Vieira UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2019.212.05

Abstract

Back in Brazil after 5 years without performing in the country, singer Lana Del Rey was part of the Lollapalooza Brasil 2018 festival line-up. In this article, we scrutinize at how the singer’s spectacle, viewed by us as an artistic work reconfigured in the contemporary context and displaced from canonical logics of this aesthetic, is configured as a possibility of fruition from three categories – fellowship, sublimation and catharsis –, the experiential prime being in the song Serial Killer. We set up a methodological course that pervades discussions about performance and body, basing ourselves in aspects that approach representativeness and possibility of experience. The concert takes on a sui generis “aesthetic practice”, in order to stress poetic reconfigurations of the individuals and the artist.

Keywords: Performance. Body. Fellowship. Sublimation. Catharsis.

Author Biographies

Cláudio Rodrigues Coração, UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e do curso de Jornalismo da UFOP. Doutor em Comunicação: Meios e Provcessos Audiovisuais pela ECA/USP. Coordenador do Grupo de Pesquisa Quintais: cultura midiática, arte e política (UFOP/CNPq).

William David Vieira, UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Mestrando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto e Bacharel em Jornalismo pela mesma instituição. Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Quintais: cultura midiática, arte e política (UFOP/CNPq).

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Published

2019-07-16

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2019): May/August

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