Modos de escuta: o corpo como câmera, ou a experiência, o jogo e a coisa

Abstract

This research took place during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, and aimed at reflecting upon the act of wandering, chance and the interaction with the city as starting points for writing. Besides the “shutting down” of the city and the impossibility of wandering and coming across other bodies, in situations mediated by chance, the author’s body, during the period of writing, experienced rare autoimmune diseases that brought her other interdictions and estrangements. Her body started not to recognize itself. Because of this, several questions arose: how to wander about, roam, experience situations that can be narrated and create stories with a body that cannot encounter other bodies and that cannot move? When one’s own body is a strange body, how does one give contour to this experience? To shape these and other questions that arose, while the writing took place and issues regarding personal and collective health intensified, new forms of interaction, other modes of wandering and other possibilities of trajectories were created. The wandering and the games took place with what was at arm’s length: the house, memories, looking out the window, the construction of self-portraits, the images of medical exams and the opening of books by chance as in an oracular game. In this oracular game the main interlocutors were “The Atlas of the Body and the Imagination”, by Gonçalo Tavares and the “I-Ching: The Book of Changes”. However, the most important guiding light in this journey was the body, not only the author’s body in metamorphosis, but a whole lot of other more than human bodies such as ants, trees, minute and invisible beings, as well as human beings such as Stefano Mancuso, Ursula Le Guin, José Gil, Davi Kopenawa, Donna Haraway, Emanuele Coccia, Artavazd Peleshian, Ventura Profana, Regina José Galindo, Eleonora Fabião, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, among others, that accompanied this writing to compose the web or the intertwining of threads that weave this dissertation.