Devir planta em uma poética do processo: alongando o olhar para o corpo vegetal na cidade

Abstract

The work addresses the development of methods that lead artistic practice from encounters with plant beings in the urban environment. The research traverses the environmental crisis resulting from the modern model of civilization and aims to direct attention towards an interspecific perspective that seeks to access other modes of existence. Through the sensitive (Coccia, 2010), it seeks to identify physiological characteristics of species within the Plant Kingdom that inhabit the urban environment. Triggered by this approach, artistic practice is developed in line with the thought of lines and correspondence (Ingold, 2015), which deals with materials in a set of operations, highlighting the process, akin to the vital flows of things. Three artistic experiments stem from the quest to understand the body of three different species, each practice unfolding in a chapter that exposes the train of thought guiding the practice, encompassing concepts and examples of works by other artists that resemble the logic of poetic construction. Drawing near to the bodies of species capable of regulating the atmosphere is not only a mode of alterity but also a matter that challenges our anthropocentric view of the world. Crafting an experiment stemming from this perspective is to contemplate a poetics that seeks to sensitize our bodies to other modes of existence.