Humano-animal (suspensão): uma poética em performance

Abstract

This dissertation is an extract of empirical (sensitive) processes experienced by the author (artist-performer) during the research in visual poetics carried out between the years 2016 and 2018. This research purpose to realize performances from the crisscross (interpenetration) of the boundaries between human and animal bodies (and actions), derived from a rescue of personal experiences in proximity to the domestic animal - cow - and from the elaboration of these experiences in the concretion of projects / studies for performances. Thus, this research sets out to think how the intertwining of the boundaries between human and animal can construct another horizon for the production of performances. For this, the research trajectory involves the creation of a body-another - constructed with the overlapping of parts of a cow (skull and skin) over the body of the artist (human body) –, through performing projects (studies) for performances until the realization of actions in different spaces. Through this poetic bias, three performances and a project for performance that, in the development of the research, culminated in the idea of suspension, understood as an openness to the indefinition of the boundaries between bodies, space-times, the happening in the midst of everyday reality, the relationship between the performer and the witnesses of performance and, in parallel, a phenomenon of concentration of attention and energy of the witnesses and the performer during the construction of a performative space-time. Some of the performances that made up this research became a local reference in discussions about art, generating an impact not only in the artistic medium but also in the broader context of the regional society, leading to questions about the ethical and aesthetic limits of artistic making.