CiberÀtrações: From radical sensualism to animism, becoming an animal

Abstract

  This essay proposes a theoretical reflection on the relationality involved in a process of creating public art performances with the presence of live animals, object of the doctoral thesis in Multimedia Art entitled ciberÀtrações e as veredas multiespécies. Along with the presentation of the trajectory of the creative process, concepts of the aesthetics of immanence, biology and the Amerindian perspectivism that inspire the work are discussed. Instigated by Bergson, Harraway, Nietzsche and Viveiros, I appropriate the notion of Simanimagenia (Harraway, 2016) to elaborate an original concept, Simagenia - as a fabulative path to think ecologically about the material and multi-species relationality in the narratives created, from a multinaturalist paradigm (Viveiros, 2014).