O corpo-casa da loucura: entre memória, pesquisa e ficção

Abstract

In a markedly unequal social system, mental health issues cross human bodies in different ways and the stigma of madness produces its mistakes and illnesses, until the present day. In this context, the artistic proposal: Body-House of Madness was born from the desire to research silenced female narratives and the stigma of madness, facts that historically remain intertwined. The asylum logic involves, to this day, the normalization and docilization of bodies, especially of individuals located on the margins of society. Starting from a scientifically established thought, going crazy can mean losing the bond that unites what is real or not, the thread that remains of some border of sanity, a path of no return or, in some cases, death itself. In this work, the methodology is being developed between some personal memories of everyday life, academic research, the genre of fiction and theatrical dramaturgy, thus seeking to interconnect the different forms of languages and artistic expressions, such as: performance, performing and exhibition arts, with their specific techniques, immersions and visualities. The main objective of this work involves the production of a scenic and exhibition work, where the axes between scenography, costumes and lighting are present. With a creation method inspired by Renato Cohen's work entitled Work in Progress in the Contemporary Scene (1997), the conceptual basis of the research is in the relationship between (auto) fiction, bibliographic/iconographic research and personal accounts. From the conceptual base, the proposal is to try to create a dramaturgy of space and time linked to memory, bringing to the academic sphere a theme not yet overcome, in a sensorial and artistically sensitive way. To try to produce an updated artistic work on madness and mental health, which provokes both the immersion of the artist and the participating observer in the construction of imaginaries and subjectivity in everyday life. Therefore, we seek to establish here a dialogue between these languages with a game of multiplicities, which enhances the tension between the boundaries of the real and the fictitious, of reason and emotion, of memory and the oneiric. Addressing the theme of madness and mental health, fragmented into different forms of artistic expressions, has previously contributed to the process of this work, which greatly instigates the production of meanings, as it is built on the interrelations between academic research, personal memory and the art of fiction.