Corpo, memória, criação e pertencimento: relatos afetivos de uma acariense que inventou de ser artista

Abstract

This essay is a memorial. It is a critical and affective report of the multiple formative processes that I had experienced during my academic, artistic and human trajectory. Those experiences are beyond the walls of the university. They are presented through the colors, cuts, landscapes, mountain ranges, dams, and also, potentialities, living and powerful presences in the city of Acari, in Seridó - geographic and cultural region situated at the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It reflects on memory, identity and belonging. Also, it evokes the perception of autobiographical facts and feelings. It is based on the educational and artistic processes that I had experienced during the undergraduate course in Theater, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) (2016-2022). It is important to note that it points out aspects of representation and visibility of the artistic productions made in the countryside of the state. It is from the political, cultural and artistic demands from my body that I want to tell the stories I have learned and experienced. Such stories are part of me as a human being, a creature and a creator. Thus, I propose a reading guided by the craftsmanship of crossroads, knots, seams, patches, threads that weave the creative processes. All of those things are carefully and artistically inspired by a land marked by heat and beauty, a ground that reverberates life and turns it into art.