Anima Monstro: corpo, alteridade e performance na contemporaneidade.

Abstract

Anima Monster is a research that investigates the limits and contaminations between performance and contemporary theater, exploring the concepts of theatricality and performativity developed by Josette Féral. Resulting from a personal need to claim some autonomy from my own artistic development as a costume designer, the project focuses on the immaterial symbolic layers of clothing, revealing different ways of understanding what dressing is and how it affects the body through poetic action. Anima Monster simultaneously combines theory and practice, reporting on the experience of creating, producing and presenting two artistic performances, whose boundary characteristics rest on the language hybrids of the contemporary scene. The inspirational theme for the performances were the marginalized characters known as monsters. The silhouettes of Minotaur and Frankenstein are reformulated in homonymous performances that propose updates and reflections on archetypes and issues that are imposed on the body in the contemporary context, governed by biopolitics.