Ouvir na pele o terceiro som: ficções experimentadas e transformações sensoriais

Abstract

The research grew out of personal investigations and experiences with the act of listening, the production of sounds, the creation of environments and the conduction of intersensory drifts. The articulation occurs according to a transdisciplinary perspective, and in relation to some especially meaningful artistic and textual works. The construction of the sensory and the subjectivities and its possibilities of transformation and empowerment, through an art linked to life, are the central issues. The concepts of fable, lines, cartography and deterritorializations developed by Deleuze, the ecosophy of Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik s notion of vibrating bodies are fundamental, just like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica s observations about their own experiences. Historical and cultural studies of the senses, such as the ones by Constance Classen and David Howes, and the observations of distinct theorists like Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Michel Serres and Jacques Rancière help to give an initial overview of the sensory construct in the modern and contemporary West. Questions regarding sound, silence and noise led to the use of concepts such as listening and resonance in an extended sense, not restricted to sounding or physical phenomena. The relationship between listening, intersensoriality, imagination and memory contributed to the initial development of the concept of third sound present here. The perception of the text as an activator of feelings and reveries, the connections between concept and concrete and the non-realistic account of events led to the experienced fictions. The act of drift is related to the "derangement of all senses" and implies the experience of margins, deviations and extremes, dissolving boundaries, diasporas in the interstices. Poetics and politics of otherness, of difference and strangeness are present on the experiences of a living environment, a landscape-body-other. Such questions go through my work that are performed in different ways, in cartographies that may include sound, text, drawings, objects, photographs, videos, clothing, actions, situations, etc. The approach to these issues happens through a few passages by writers like Rimbaud, Borges and Italo Calvino; theorists from different fields, like Guy Brett, Douglas Kahn, De Certeau, Michel Onfray, James J. Gibson and Donna Haraway; and works and texts from various key artists like Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas and Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Bill Viola, Cildo Meireles and Lygia Pape, among others