ESSAY, IGNORANCE, UNWORKING: a practice in the interval between the class and the scene

• Grant number: 12/24438-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: February 16, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Theatre
• Principal Investigator: Julio Roberto Groppa Aquino
• Grantee: Juliana Jardim Barboza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/25300-7 - Errant landscapes between the class and the scene: Incendies (Scorched) and Fernand Deligny, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

This post doctoral project aims to investigate what the meeting points and detours among essay, ignorance and unworking, are when it comes to the relation between the body-in-class and the body-on-stage, in actions towards approaching a text. The investigation searches for structuring principles originated in the study of these three themes - essay, ignorance (according to Joseph Jacotot/Jacques Rancière) and unworking - with a view to analyzing the composition of a body, a gesture and an ethics which we name essayistic. The sources for the analysis shall be, at first, a bibliography that moves in the landscape in-between its major issues; next, a selection from the essayistic filmography by filmmaker Agnès Varda (linked to the theme essay); thirdly, the filmography of educator Fernand Deligny, as well as his written production (which we link to the theme unworking); and, finally, some of our Ensaios ignorantes (Ignorant essays), to be carried out between 2013 and 2014 (the linked themes yet to be considered).