Conjuring corpus, sentencing delusions: an ellipse view of scenic contours not seen from whiteness.
Performing arts; Benzimento; Conjuration; Countercolonial; Imaginative cartography; Neuromuscular flow.
Conjuring corpus, sentencing delusions: an ellipse view on scenic contours not seen from whiteness, reflects on the application of contours and axial notions to the performing arts. Starting from the observation that contemporary artists and thinkers of the Arts have been developing scenic-visual works that completely or partially abandon epistemologically Eurocentric references, the research incorporates countercolonial, afromatized and indigenous epistemic perspectives to formulate, based on this critical review, and discuss the terms sentence, conjure and benzimento (blessing). To build such hypotheses, a critical revisitation of the work of writer Renato Cohen (2013) was developed, based on productions by contemporary artists and authors/the non-whites who contributed/contribute to the performing arts, but centrally support these first I gesture the works “Esfriamento” (cool down) and “Refluxo” (reflux), both of which I wrote, created in 2023, in transit between Natal/RN and Recife/PE. The methodological attitudes that will be used in this dissertation are “Cartografia-imaginativa” (Imaginative- cartography) and “Fluxo Neuromuscular” (Neuromuscular Flow), which postulate the non-binarity and non-separation between theoretical and practical or ethics, aesthetics and poetics in the activities of life.