Sobre elas... sobre mim: Percursos etnográfico-performativos sobre/com o feminino na Colônia Z3.

Abstract

This master's thesis was developed with the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the Arts Center of the Federal University of Pelotas - UFPel, linked to the line of research in the Processes of Creation and Poetics of Everyday Life. The study approaches ethnographic-performative experiences and experiments in relation to the study with, among, through body, gender and territory, fundamentally based on the life and work of women and artisans from Colony Z3. This colony is a coastal and fishing region located in the city of Pelotas, more specifically, the southern region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, border to Uruguay. The investigation process took place during the period between August 2018 and May 2020, resulting in this textual production and the production of an artistic work of performance art, recorded in audiovisual media. The work was developed through a qualitative approach to research in arts, taking as a reference the theoretical and methodological contribution of ethnography, performance and artistic research; records through photos and the process diary were used as the main collection instruments. The main theoretical references adopted are authors such as Butler (2010), Barba (2009), LeBreton (2003; 2012), Cohen (2004) and Beauvoir (1970), among others. In this process, I was in contact with theorists and artists who accompanied me and instigated me to think and carry out academic research in a poetic way. I find myself surrounded by a community that is no longer unconnected to me. Each theory is no longer just from the cognitive field, each experience was magical. I leave, on my part, a tribute to the trajectories, the simple that is complex, the grotesque that is sublime. And this whole flow continues like water, in the scariest and (im)possible walks and dives that I can (or not) imagine. Within the artistic practice related to the feminine and all my possibilities in dialogue with the women whom I lived with. I tried in this artistic production to organize myself as a female body that was neither caricature nor exuberant, because what I most wanted was to put on myself of an open and plural body, a body of women, in a more collective conception and that could be the least prejudiced as possible. Anyway, I, who always wanted a research that would provide me a meeting between the body, the arts, the make-in-process, the artists, the theorists, the research methods. I could come out and lead a research that fully dialogue with what I think and feel, I value every achievement and every stumbling block of this research. I exalt the union of theory with practice, of the experiences imagined with the realities lived, from the reception to the diverse in the form of behaviors, places and people. I assume in this way, everything that constituted me and constitutes me in this thesis recognizing that it, yes, is about them, but, without any doubt, it is about me!