At the temperature of the moment: field recording as a performative action and creative device in the performing arts

• Grant number: 25/25407-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: April 01, 2026
• End date: July 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Theatre
• Principal Investigator: Raquel Scotti Hirson
• Grantee: Moacir Romanini Junior
• Supervisor: Paulo Jorge Pinto Raposo
• Host Institution: Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Teatrais (LUME). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 24/21987-2 - Relations between Performativity and Field Research, BP.PD

Abstract

This internship project abroad focuses on investigating modes of recording in field research in the performing arts, understanding them as performative actions and devices of creation. In this vein, it proposes to analyze the field diary as a space for aesthetic invention, in which body, writing, and environment intersect in the production of sensitive knowledge. The project is part of the convergence between performance anthropology, art, and ethnography, in dialogue with Prof. Dr. Paulo Raposo (ISCTE-Lisbon), whose research investigates the intersections between ritual, aesthetics, and ethnographic practice. The aim is to contribute to the expansion of creation methodologies in the performing arts from a transdisciplinary and performative approach. This research, which covers the relationships between performativity and field research, is directly linked to the current research developed by Lume Teatro/Unicamp, whose focus, "The Invisibilities of Death," is part of the thematic project Pedagogies, Processes, and Archives of Presence (Chamada LinCar - FAPESP). In this context, death is taken as poetry that calls for presence, listening, and transformation. In Lisbon, a city of overlapping temporalities and memories that linger in ruins, cemeteries, and churches, the countryside becomes a territory for investigating how death manifests itself in spaces and how performers can sensitively inscribe themselves in these landscapes. To this end, the project draws on studies in Humanistic Geography, Geopoetics, and Ethnography to find ways to expand and record procedures that enable creative processes attentive to the environmental logic of the spaces investigated. In this sense, the internship proposes not only a study of research methodologies, but also an ethical-aesthetic exercise in attention, in which the performer-researcher has a corporeal implication in relation to the world. By proposing an expansion of the idea of field research in the Performing Arts, this investigation also seeks to establish relationships with the performative fieldwork developed by Lume Teatro, which has explored other methodologies of poetic apprehension in which the locus is the initial matrix of creation. (AU)