Almas/memórias familiares e lembranças: processos e elaborações de fabulação crítica na performance negra

Abstract

In this work, I propose to discuss processes and elaborations of familial memory enunciation in black performance, drawing on the perspectives of critical fabulation and the poetics of relation. Taking as its object the search for a “lost image” tied to the story of my maternal grandmother, Ana Francisca – whose trajectory was marked by the non-return to her homeland and by the erasure of records and memories typical of colonial dynamics – the research aims to understand how processes and elaborations within black performance can rework memories and absences, while also challenging colonial subjectivations, articulating theory and artistic practice as interdependent dimensions. The methodology combines autobiographical artistic practice, critical analysis of authorial performances, and philosophical theoretical Afro-diasporic frameworks. Through aesthetic, artistic, and cultural articulations and discussions, I sought to reflect on the potentialities of a relational poetics within black performance, and to foster an expanded discussion of notions and concepts that converge in the field of the performing arts. Thus, in this research, processes and elaborations of critical fabulation in black performance are analyzed and discussed toward the construction of modes of presentification and enunciation of memory, through a relational poetic construction that challenges notions of subjectivity and identity – a process I invoke as the re-ontologization of subjectivity. It is concluded that, in this context, performance constitutes an ontoepistemological space for the symbolic and political elaboration of memory, establishing an aesthetic language committed to the invention of other ways of being and existing, and building strategies, aesthetic and ethical relations of memory enunciation that may bring forth fabulating and imaginative ways of reworking memories and self/world images.