Abstract
This chapter explores how an arts-based research project moves from gender to the human question. Cunt Clown Show (Research, creation, performance and production: Melissa Caminha. Co-creation and direction: Jango Edwards. Assistant director: Cristi Garbo. Support: Cunt Clown Show was partially financed by the FUNARTE/Caixa Carequinha Award for Circus Support 2014 (Brazil)) starts from an anatomical symbol, the cunt, which through feminist-queer-crip theory and performance, makes room for others both in it and with it. The piece tells a story of a female clown, Lavandinha, who grows up and marries herself, then takes a science fiction honeymoon trip, experiencing futurist adventures and adopting posthuman bodies. The show is an experiment in worlding practice through sci-fi storytelling that roams across different comic territories: clowning, buffoonery and drag. Lavandinha goes beyond the “clown world” to establish contact with new material entities and inquire into gender construction, sexualities, motherhood, ableism, patriarchy, capitalism, transspecies relationships, adult-centrism and post-anthropocentrism. A critical genealogy of comicality is provided within the frame of a new materialist approach to self-construction. Wandering, the female clown finds wonderful possibilities for being and laughing in the world. Wondering, she critically deconstructs human forms and behaviours crystalized in clowning representations and comic performances. This posthuman show invites us to imagine possible new worlds and relationships that go beyond self and species.
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