Corpo em ruínas, uma análise das ações performativas de Paula Garcia

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Amanda Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21203
• topic: Corpomídia; Performance (Arte); Garcia, Paula [1975- ]; Bodymedia; Performance art; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

The main theme in this master’s thesis is the way a body communicates in situation of extreme vulnerability. For that purpose, it departs from the analysis of Paula Garcia’s performance “Corpo Ruindo” – “Noise Body”1 – presented at SESC Pompeia during the period of March 10th to May 10th, 2015. Firstly, aspects of this artist’s creation process are presented, aiming at discussing her changes of concept of body in relation to different environments and objects. We depart from the contact of body versus magnet versus iron – body x magnet x iron – proposed throughout the performance and in the studies of noise these objects provoke. To broaden this discussion, concepts on the works of John Cage and Nam Jun Paik are also studied. Garcia’s own research, which represents a testimony of the concept of the body ready to become and transforming itself into ruins, is presented as part of our theoretical foundation. The historical context elaborated by writers such as Amelia Jones (2012) and Roselee Goldberg (2015) is helpful when we think of issues related to performance as an artistic language, which represents the specific circuit where Garcia is. Theories of performativity, vulnerability, collectivity, as well as gender and feminism issues proposed by Judith Butler (1999; 2003; 2006; 2016; 2017) are used both to question the female body during the performance and out of it. Besides that, the discussions on the human figure by Eliane Moraes (2012) and the cyborg theory by Donna Haraway are cited. The bodymedia theory, by Christine Greiner and Helena Katz (2005, 2015) underpins the research base on the vulnerable body that constitutes itself in relationship with the environment. We expect, with his research, to collaborate with a study field in development in Brazil, with contributions by both researchers and artists, proposing singular considerations about the communication of the body in its various states