A poesia: corpo, performance e oralidade

Abstract

: Poetry is always a productive field to think about art and its relevance to the social praxis. Considering that it derives from everyday life, since it involves the direct and active relationship with the other, the purpose of this paper is to reflect on poetry from the perspective of vocal-body performance. The vocal-boby performance is understood as an social and sound sign that finds its becoming in the body of the poet/performer. Thus, we seek to examine how the notion of beginning, middle and end, predetermined by linguistic taxonomy, gives way to experimentation, leading to a poetic whose enjoyment is built by the nonlinearity and enables the creation of new signic ambiences where creating and abstracting become synonymous. Another important issue for our reflection is the relationship between poetic construction and memory, considering that this latter is characterized by its nonlinearity and its capacity of updating events in the same presentness of performance which, on the other hand, refers to the engagement of the poet through his/her body, either in sound or in silence. In order to examine some of the aspects mentioned above, this paper draws on Henri Bergson and Paul Zumthor to discuss voice and memory. Regarding performance and experimentation concepts, we focused on Renato Cohen and Philadelpho Menezes, among others. Therefore, the intended and always transitory reflection on poetic, as it should be every consideration of this kind, aims to redefine what we mean by poetic performance in its signic expansion.