Ensaiando aparições [ou nome em processo de criação – uma travessia]

Abstract

This work investigates appearances based on Lhola Amira’s proposition, aiming to trace the relationship between the researcher’s process of naming and Amira’s. One requires a different name for oneself, and the other calls for a different naming of the work itself; both intersect within the framework of artistic production commonly recognized in the field of performance. Following a memorial-style writing on the first performances, which challenge perceptions of sufficiency and evoke an experience of otherness, the work develops understandings of Performance Art in order to explore the openness for the proposition of appearances as a distinct practice. In a section dedicated to Amira’s production, the text addresses the artist’s statements and works alongside discussions of coloniality and the necessity of adopting terms appropriate to the analysis of non-Western artworks, considering the imperative to confront the geopolitics of knowledge in the face of epistemicide. It then presents the creative process component of the research, analyzing artistic and documentation practices in relation to Artistic Research and Cartography, understanding it as a crossing. Finally, the work emphasizes the need for a borderland comprehension between performance and appearance, highlighting an interest in the creative process as a crossing.