Esboço para redobrar a gravidade: performatividades entre dança, escultura e coisa a partir de fragmentos de chãos

Abstract

The present research comes from the perspective of Performance, field, along with the Dance, Visual Arts fields and life itself. Inside these lines, it approaches the body and the landscape. A composition of fragments. Sculpted spaces, folds and spirals.. More specifically, as from my body, the relationship between weight, gravity, and the nature of the ground of my hometown, Itabira (MG, Brazil). A ground that is also present in other territories of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Latin America—a mined, overturned, fragmented, and dissipated around the world. How does my body navigate weight and gravity in relation to these grounds? To answer this driving question, in which weight and gravity are understood both as physical and imagetic elements, I take the creative process as my primary research method—an open field of multiple pathways, engaging in different modes of making and thinking in dialogue with many others. This includes conversations, classes, writings, readings, archival images, and artistic records, considering affects, percepts, and the construction of meaning. As a consequence, dialogues with authors from Dance, Philosophy, Performance Studies and Visual Arts, often crossing disciplinary boundaries. And all of it within a cartographic approach, which beyond an approach from doing, creating and thinking is also poetic and political, a construction of memories. Here, all is this and that, and that other one. But not anyone.