What can an ecodrag? “Cuier” creative processes, life potentials and ecobiographical poetics
ecodrag; cuier body; performance; creative process; somatic-performative research.
This thesis aims to explore and analyse the creative process, as well as the construction of an identity as Leona_do Pau. Based on my artistic practice, I intend to establish articulations on the concept of ecodrag as a potential force for life. During the development of this research, I noticed the need to discuss identity construction processes based on the art of performance. It was also important to create deviations and tensions, far from the rigid patterns and configurations of subjectivities and sexualities in contemporary times. I seek the expansion of affections as a conducting force for the creation of an ecodrag. I also propose to give special value to experiences and encounters as a way to nurture the relationships between art and life, movement and writing, body and environment. These implications are stimulated through experimentation of somatic-performative practices, more specifically, somatic-performative research. During this research I carried out an essay writing exercise, a narrative exercise, which I named as ecobiography. A life-writing performance that attempts to potentiate the movements against categorization processes and standardization of bodies. All these actions are echoed from the realization of “cuier” (queer) creative processes. They aimed to highlightpossible areas of deconstruction and subversion through a perspective of “cu” theory. These movements are developed during a rewriting, fragmented and integrated into a whole. The use of aphorisms intends to expand the autonomy of the body, the production of affections, and the creation of ethical / political / aesthetic bodies.
The theoretical organization of the thesis works with the creation of a community involved by Leona_do Pau. It is an exercise of translating the movements of this body into the world. The theoretical perspective is also in line with authors who produce thought experiences as a way of life. Authors such as Nietzsche, Spinoza, Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze. In addition I dialogue with the production of authors who approach the body as flow, experience and immanence, such as Judith Butler, Paul Preciado, Ciane Fernandes, Suely Rolnik, Paco Vidarte, Guacira Lopes Louro, among others.