Notebooks of Indigent Writings: Indigence as a Place of Creation
Appearances, Autoethnography, Performance, Institutional Racism.
The present dissertation addresses the overall panorama of poetic construction related to Inddiegente, the emergence of a Non-Holy Sacred Body that occupies the streets as a way to confront hegemonic reality. Emerging from contexts of neglect, violence, and deviations, both within and outside academia, a relationship between the Inddiegente Body and the Indigent Body is established to illustrate the affectation of sociocultural context in artistic practice. Autoethnography is employed as the main methodological resource for creating five notebooks of indigent writings, which are circular and can be read autonomously, constructing a spiral around the complexity of this praxis. The farce of humanity is unveiled and confronted by understanding that the dehumanization of black, fat, LGBT, and non-Christian bodies is a project stemming from compulsory Eurocentrism maintained by institutions and professionals, thus generating indigent bodies, poetics, and practices.