Escuta sensível das plantas: germinando uma existência eco-somático-performativa em dança para corporeidades travestis a partir das relações de cuidado-aprendizado

Abstract

This is a work generated from practices, immersions, readings and writings that address issues related to the cultivation of a sensitive relationship between a transvestite corporeality and plant corporeality through the development of a somatic practice entitled Listening to Plants, unfolding from a connective experience that concerns a living network of distributed intelligence, inspired by a decentralized plant model (MANCUSO, 2019). The aim is then to develop strategies for existential continuity and production of life in a hostile environment for dissident corporeality. Therefore, the hegemonic project of the subject that modernity established in its hierarchical relationship with nature at the expense of other beings that inhabit the planet – such as plants – is questioned, as well as the superiority of rational thought over the body. Thus, a resilient experience of self-invention and the world emerges in the face of

transphobic and ecological necropolitical violence, typical of the colonial-neoliberal- conservative logic. This work is anchored in a theoretical-practical framework that addresses

research related to performance creation in the context of Somatic-Performative (FERNANDES, 2014) and cartographic (PASSOS, KASTRUP, ESCOSSIA, 2010) research methodologies, as well as the methodology of Witnessing to the Authentic Movement (JORGE, 2018). Through these methodologies and focusing on the body-art-nature relationship, the research is fundamentally oriented by experience, where subject and object of the research mix and are often confused. In this way, counter-hegemonic ethical-aesthetic-political ecoperformative actions are engendered through a dancing ecosystem corporeality that emerges from Practice-led Research (HASEMAN, 2015). In this context, it was from an experiential point of view, through a broadening of the senses and a moving attention (KASTRUP, 2007) that the artist-researcher was able to explore a creative at Parque Estadual do Cocó to produce a danced video ecoperformance that establishes a mediation between the issues that cross this research in the conceptual and practical spheres.