Reverberating memories in"Corpos Lona": A Circus of a thousand women

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Abstract

Abstract

This research comes from an unplanned passion, as they all are. An affection that permeates me from all sides and brought me this reflection that begins here, in the body, where my concerns as a daughter, woman, mother, artist and researcher arise. A desire arises. Talk about circus women and their stories, narratives and memories. From the look at "history" taken by British anthropologist Tim Ingold in his book "Lines, a brief history" (2022), and the theory of the body without organs in the book "A Thousand Plateaus" by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and his collaborator Félix Guattari (1997), I intend to give voice to a term that I bring in this research, as a great challenge, and as a concept that proposes to justify a body that reverberates stories and memories in movement. A term that I cut out and use here as "Corpos Lona", which tells us about a circus that lives in the body, a body that acts in the world, and, the canvas, the metaphor of this body linked to women who make art. From the establishment of the concept of canvas bodies, I narrate the research process and the momentary cut of the artistic work entitled "A circus of a thousand women", which tells us in movement, everything I try to say in written words.