Poéticas da emancipação: a relação corpo-cidade

Abstract

By recognizing the city as a biopolitical agency of extensive brutalising regimes of our bodies, the doctoral research that precedes this text was delve into the registers of the making process of the theater play Ainda Vivas – Três Peças do Nóis de Teatro (a company that has been active for nearly 20 years in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil), to seek to think if, how and when, the theater with the street, can work in the construction of political experiences that emancipate the body-city. Evidencing the unique expressions of the world, implicated in the urban peripheries, which bodies come up when theater meets the street? Which rupture processes of the hegemonic ways of living the relation with the world are proposed by these bodies — mostly belonging to female, blacks and LGBTs and histo-rically segregated, violated and estigmatized communities? Based on the registers of Ainda Vivas staging, and critical-reflective dialogues, mainly with Édouard Glissant and Tim Ingold, the aim was to think about an emancipating poetics as a way of reconstructing the body-city-world rela-tions. Thus, investing in a wisdom-of-the-body inherent in the practices studied at Nóis de Teatro and the poetic soirees movements of Fortaleza, the research culminates in the understanding that the urban peripheries and the bodies that inhabit them are living meshes in constant composition, therefore imbued with contingent processes and always of the order of movement. In order to rei-terate the inseparability of all things, this work challenges the deterministic rhetoric of cities, fo-cusing on a review of the world as we know it to announce that the wisdom that circulates in the urban peripheries describes, above all, an engagement with life.