A performance artística a partir das relações com as coisas-memória: ancestralidade, afectos e corpo.

Abstract

This dissertation presents a creation process in performance which considers ancestry, affects, and the body as a mode of dismissing the sedimentability of the memory. The research project, developed in the Master Graduate Program in Visual Arts at UFPel, aims at the creation of meetings which were placed in the researcher’s artistic-visualbody production. Hence, the research develops the concept of things-memory, which starts from gestures, affects and ancestry. The project is framed around the works Mandiocal, O que é Daqui? Processos e Trajetos, Percursos Rurais e Urbanos, Voz e Matéria, Avó, Perfor(mar), Escalda Pés, and Tramóia. From them, the thesis develops the concepts of unearthing, disassembling, and unraveling as poetic vectors which aim to discuss the deletion and silencing of the voices of generations of women. The questions of how memories engender processes and are made in poetic creation, and of what memories surface when creating a performance, were highlights of the research. The work draws from operational concepts and weaves approximations with artworks and thoughts of Marina Abramovic, Lygia Clark, Kazuo Ohno, Sophie Calle, Jose Gil, Suely Rolnik, Virginia Kastrup, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault and Henri Bergson. Adopting cartography as a method, procedurality is the way of thinking and researching the visual arts and poetics.