A BET ON THE POWER OF AUTOBIOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICAL ATTENTION IN MENTAL HEALTH PRODUCTION
mental health, de-institutionalization, performance, aesthetic attention.
This research aimed to analyze a process of experimentation in the field of mental health in composition with the performing arts in its clinical, aesthetic and political dimension that became singular with the creation of the Cenopoetic Collective Wind of the Avoados. Since the fields of arts, clinic and madness have known interfaces, and in the process of Brazilian psychiatric reform, the tendency to recognize the autonomy of the artistic-cultural field in relation to the psychiatric field stands out today (Torre, 2018 ), we seek in research to give visibility to an artistic language and its relationship with the clinic. In the connection of the fields of mental health, autobiographical performance and the production of a clinic we intend to develop the tool concept: “aesthetic attention”. This is an intervention research of cartographic inspiration, based on the philosophy of difference, authors of deinstitutionalization in mental health and the theoretical-methodological contributions of the performing arts with emphasis on documentary theater and performance. The field of research consisted of workshops and scenic experiments that were attended by people from the National Movement of Street Population of Rio Grande do Norte (MNPR / RN); psychosocial care network (RAPS) users; members of the Potiguar Plural Association; students and a scenic director. As field records we present the narratives of the autobiographical scenic performances created by the collective, two cartographic field diaries and sixteen narratives transcribed from a scenic exercise. The partial results show us that by performatizing their autobiographies, participants were able to find forgotten happy stories that, remembered in their bodies, brought them a subjective dislocation by establishing themselves and affirming themselves as people in their stories, they found another place in the city and the relationship with their bodies. The
experience generated another way of doing and thinking the clinic of the sensitive field, producing care
in search of freedom and increased autonomy of the participants.