(Não) escrever uma tese: processos de criação em travessias

Abstract

This thesis aimed to articulate the concept and the sensitive, theory and practice, reason and dream, in order to discuss and experiment with the practice of not writing, a notion explored by Paloma Vidal in her artistic-literary project Não Escrever, developed between 2015 and 2023. This project included academic research, performance lectures, a cartonero book, and another in the form of an open essay. Our interest in this project revolved around the ways of writing life as it is interrupted and crossed by it, in processes that can be seen in these mentioned works, but also in the composition of everything that is written while not writing. This is also present in the books Durante, Dois (2015), and Wyoming e Menini (2018), with which we also engage in this thesis. From our observation of Paloma Vidal's production within the selected scope, we identified the stitching of the contemporary – fragmentation and personal experimentation – which, in turn, points to an expansion of the boundaries of the literary towards other artistic practices, activating in the reader [and in this reader-author] a workshop mode that invites experimentation with the investigated practice and produces knowledge. The process of building this thesis involved appropriating process criticism to understand Paloma Vidal's creative methods and the relationship of autofiction aspects as strategies employed by the author to (not) write. It is concluded that such a practice is a continuous, unfinished gesture, of a body that writes in the drift of its own crossings, just like this thesis.