Onde está você Carnaval? Materialidades de um corpo folião

Abstract

This work starts from the notions of body-party as an aesthetic, political and epistemological force in the context of Brazilian festive arts, focusing on Carnival. Based on a transdisciplinary and performative methodology - which interweaves memory, autobiography, artistic practice and theoretical reflection - the research seeks to understand how the body in celebration produces traces, senses and knowledge expressed through materialities. In these festive materials and remnants of celebrations, transit vehicles are found that act as sensory and affective testimonies of the passage of these bodies. Such elements, far from being merely decorative, constitute living archives that activate memories and re-enchant everyday life. The research articulates experiences in territories - ephemeral or not - together with sensitive files and creation processes. The body-parlour is presented as an expanded field of existence that, through brightness and collectivity, tenses norms and establishes other forms of life.