“Gesture: Memory of a Body in Darkness”

Abstract

Gesture: Memory of a Body in Darkness is a performance art that is born from that constant exploration between the inside and the outside, between the identity and the N. N., between the fears and liberations, but always pondering on the incessant question about existence (I am), at the same time that the here and now are being experienced. This is an artistic exhibition related to the study of the personal emotional, affective and creative-discursive process (self-research), through the corporeal scenic, philosophical and plastic languages that are typical of butoh dance. As a researcher, I start from the constant discomfort that promotes the unknown before our body/psyche in relation to life, developing them through laboratories of investigation, experimentation and experiences of body epistemology and technical training typical of butohka aesthetics, to offer a performance art as a sample and final result. During the process, by keeping a field journal of self-study and by presenting the performance art to the audience, feedback is given to multiple visions of the I am, projected and reflected in the others, common conceptions of identity and own findings around early childhood are deployed. Within the processes of human development, it is important to become aware of one’s own existence through the body and the emotions, to create spaces that give feedback to collective memory, and to investigate those collective healing processes that allow the transformation of one’s own experiences around community art in culture and territories