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Um corpo para uma vida : estudo para uma teoria do corpo e o trabalho do actor a partir de Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze
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O presente texto procura ser uma expressão, entre as possíveis, de uma problemática do
novo campo de estudos denominado Performance Philosophy. Como tal, pretende colocar-se na
fronteira de dois pensamentos, ou apresentar-se como um híbrido buscando a sua autonomia e
validade quer na Filosofia, quer nos Estudos da Performance. O que determinou a investigação
foram as possibilidades e potências do Corpo, tal como as apreendemos enquanto praticante das
artes teatrais e performáticas, enquanto actor/performer e assistente de encenação.
O Corpo foi o conceito-charneira entre as duas disciplinas. Foi em torno dele que as nossas
preocupações, como praticante, se enovelavam e, enquanto investigador, se denodavam com o
pensamento de alguns filósofos do século XX. A investigação guiou-se por um particular
movimento interno: de pontos problemáticos surgidos da e na prática do corpo procurámos a sua
resolução com a teoria. Do seio de dois pensamentos singulares, Foucault e Deleuze, esboçámos
uma teoria do corpo e do trabalho do actor, que apontasse uma outra via prática, a qual, por seu
turno, igualmente tem seu mote num movimento contínuo da prática artística para a vida quotidiana
e vice-versa, procurando, porém, um maior impacto na segunda.
Foucault ofereceu-nos as directrizes de uma certa leitura do corpo «normalizado» e
«subjectivado» a desconstruir, bem como o fundo pelo qual questionámos a subjectividade e a
criação de um êthos. Deleuze dotou-nos de ferramentas várias para experimentar um pensamento
em torno do Corpo, tendo como base um outro entendimento de experiência, a partir do qual
propomos a construção de um Corpo para uma Vida: uma experimentação enquanto ascética, ou
modo de existência, sustida em várias práticas artísticas do corpo, como forma de «abrir» o corpo
quotidiano a uma dilatação do estado de atenção, propiciando a criação de Espaços de
Acontecimento que apontam para a Anarquia.
This text intends to be an expression, among many others, of a problematic amidst the new field of studies known as Performance Philosophy. As such, pretends to set on the frontier of two thoughts, or present itself as an hybrid searching its autonomy and validity in Philosophy as well as in Performance Studies. The possibilities and potencies of the Body, such as how we apprehended while theatrical and performative art practitioners, may it be as an actor/performer or as assistant director, has determined our research. The Body was the joint-concept between these two disciplines, for it was around it our concerns, as practitioner, entangled and, as researcher, disentangled with the thought of some 20th century philosophers. The research was guided by a particular internal movement: from problematic points sprouted in and from the practice of the body we searched its resolution with theory; amidst Foucault's and Deleuze's singular thoughts we designed a theory of the body and the actor's work that pointed to another practice, one equally bearing a continual movement from artistic practice to quotidian life and vice-versa, although looking for a bigger impact on the later. Foucault has offered us the guidelines of a certain reading of the body, a «normalized» and «subjectified» one to deconstruct, as well as the ground by which we questioned subjectivity and the creation of an êthos. Deleuze endowed us with many tools to experiment a thought around the Body, based on a different notion of experience, from which we proposed the construction of a Body for a Life: an experimentation as an ascetic, or mode of existence, supported by diversified artistic practices of the body as a mean to «open» the quotidian body to an expansion of the state of attention, providing the creation of Spaces of the Event that point to Anarchy.
This text intends to be an expression, among many others, of a problematic amidst the new field of studies known as Performance Philosophy. As such, pretends to set on the frontier of two thoughts, or present itself as an hybrid searching its autonomy and validity in Philosophy as well as in Performance Studies. The possibilities and potencies of the Body, such as how we apprehended while theatrical and performative art practitioners, may it be as an actor/performer or as assistant director, has determined our research. The Body was the joint-concept between these two disciplines, for it was around it our concerns, as practitioner, entangled and, as researcher, disentangled with the thought of some 20th century philosophers. The research was guided by a particular internal movement: from problematic points sprouted in and from the practice of the body we searched its resolution with theory; amidst Foucault's and Deleuze's singular thoughts we designed a theory of the body and the actor's work that pointed to another practice, one equally bearing a continual movement from artistic practice to quotidian life and vice-versa, although looking for a bigger impact on the later. Foucault has offered us the guidelines of a certain reading of the body, a «normalized» and «subjectified» one to deconstruct, as well as the ground by which we questioned subjectivity and the creation of an êthos. Deleuze endowed us with many tools to experiment a thought around the Body, based on a different notion of experience, from which we proposed the construction of a Body for a Life: an experimentation as an ascetic, or mode of existence, supported by diversified artistic practices of the body as a mean to «open» the quotidian body to an expansion of the state of attention, providing the creation of Spaces of the Event that point to Anarchy.
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Corpo (Filosofia) Vida Imitação (Estética) Criação (Estética) Performance (Arte) Teses de doutoramento - 2018