BONECA: THE BODY AS MANIFEST IN PERFORMANCE AND SELFPERFORMANCE
Doll; Black feminisms; Performance; Selfperformance.
Weaving a path of performative writing anchored in escrevivência (Conceição Evaristo, 2020) and f(r)iction writing (Luciana Lyra, 2020), this work aims to study the process of the scenic experience entitled ‘Boneca’. The investigation is developed using a performative methodology, which involves the researcher in the first person, based on the author's personal and political trajectory as a black woman artist. The work investigates the black female body as an artistic-political manifesto based on the historical memory of violence, hypersexualization and silencing, seeking to give new meaning to this body as a space of resistance and transformation. Through the language of performance and the authorial concept of selfperformance — which combines creative processes, self-representation and photography — Boneca proposes art as a path of denunciation and empowerment, repositioning the black female body in social and artistic narratives and is articulated based on feminist and, in particular, black-feminist theoretical reflections highlighted by the authors Lélia Gonzalez (2020), Leda Maria Martins (2021), Silvia Federici (2019), Lígia Tourinho and Luciana Mitkieicz (2016), in a transversal dialogue with Audre Lorde (2019), bell hooks (2019), Grada Kilomba (2019) and Patricia Hill Collins (2019).