Por uma tradução performática

Abstract

This article seeks to consolidate initial bases for the establishment of a fourth type of translation beyond the triad established by Roman Jakobson (1969). Through the notions of writing, happening and the untimely, we intend to propose that performance is a mechanism of translation that re-signifies the historical conjuncture in which it is inserted. Thus, what we call performatic translation here implies the conception of the performance scene as a translation mechanism. That is, we point out that, through the scene, performance creates erasures in official discourses and in structures of chronological order – adhering and at the same time taking distance from its time –marking, therefore, the untimely (Nietzsche, 2003) character of the performatic translation. We also propose that the active subject of the performatic translation is the translator-performer who, through performances, constructs devices to become what he is – in the absence of an active subject of the world, performances function as aesthetic and political devices of recreation of existence.