Corpo-paisagem: elaborações performáticas para um exoesqueleto poético

Abstract

This research in poetics addresses the negotiations of existence - the flows of life and death - between the body and the landscape, human beings and animals, other components of a sertanejo reality. Creative writing, performance - in video and photographic developments - and creative process reports are taken as methodological strategies to produce a double movement of excavation and camouflage: first, rural animals (such as pigs, donkeys, oxens) have their carcasses excavated and exposed to view; later, the body in a state of performance is immersed in the landscape in an attempt to become integrated into the whole ground. Thus, the perspective of death is taken as the starting point for investigating relationships of literal, symbolic, narrative and epidermal entanglement between the individual and the space around them. Euclides da Cunha, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, João Cabral de Melo Neto and Emanuele Coccia are some of the authors who structured a mimetic body-landscape perspective, in which the poetic exoskeleton, which at first would be a deadly protective device, becomes an element of connection/symbiosis/embatement that sparks, through the bodily and performative link in the forest, the desire for a utopia where the hierarchical fallacy of the split between the human and its animal dimension is undone.