The aim of this workshop is to explore some mechanism for composition and creation by having as a starting point the affect (emotions, actions).
In this frame, the workshop proposes the practice of a series of instructions and exercises of improvisation that examine collectively the body’s autonomy and its capacity to affect and be affected by means of text, objects and motion/rest.
We will research into the affect (emotion) by contemplating them as the oscillation of energy that decreases and increases and, which assisted or restrain the matter and consequently, modifies, transforms or shapes it along space-time. In this sense, it is not limited to human beings.
To canalize this abstraction, the work is contextualized into the historical form of carnival and grotesque language and, its intense relationship with the body’s liberation, physiology and desire. Functioning as device to observe, question, discuss and examine the body within the perspective of art and politics today.
In this context, the workshop stimulates and explores the creative potential of our movement/repose and discursive body – enabling us to experience the body in an unfinished, provisional state of constant ‘becoming’… a constant process of individuation.
Keywords: Rabelais, Mikhail Bakhtin, Immanence, Baruch Spinoza, grotesque, individuation.
Keywords: Rabelais, Mikhail Bakhtin, Immanence, Baruch Spinoza, grotesque, boundaries.