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This thesis takes practice as research and has as its object relational art as a path of creation for a relational performative event and as a strategy to decolonize creation in the Center South of Brazil. Using tools from theatrical philosophy and the order of affections, this research takes the concept of Anthropophagyas a guiding word and decoloniality as an ethical position for the discussion, in order to oppose the idea of French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud about theater not be a relational art, claiming such a position. To this end, this spiral presents a Cartocopóreographyof Brazilian artists-works that have relational art as their guide in their creations. The thesis follows a non-linear path, passing through artists from the visual arts, theatrical collectives, two case studies of contemporary theater and the development of a creative laboratory, a fundamental part that will make up the body of this thesis. This laboratory understood as a place for the production of knowledge, investigates and proposes a relational and immersive performative theater, making the scenic event a place of encounter, experience and field of affection that invites the public to relate to the entire body involved in the work. through sensitive listening, which, expanded by binaural technology, evokes a re- presence in the scene. What happens to us when we go to the theater? What role does the scenic space, the architecture of the room or the sensory configuration play in establishing the relationship between audience and work? What happens to the show at the time of performance? The thesis brings as a debate the encounter not only as a condition for theater, but as an aesthetic possibility, having as its central point the experience and the relationship based on the politics of affections that the event offers to the performativity of the public's affections.