Somatic Polysemy on Body

Abstract

This article is built on the confluence of three thematic axes within the
pluriversality of understandings about the body, based on somatic approaches and
countercolonial principles, shared by three research artists from the Graduate Program
in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. The theme expressions are thus
coined: body on fire, body heap and (dis)continuous body, which are subtitles to the
body of the text, and (multi)verse about pleasure, memory and (in)finitude, among other
notions related to the consensus that the future is ancestral. In this polysemic trilogue
about the body and the soma, the Western version of the use of Somatics is duly
recognized, at the same time that it can also be perceived as an antidote against
colonialism, binarism, mechanism, male chauvinism, racism, capitalism and its variants
of countless forms of violence. Through a deeper listening to the soma as a living body,
it is argued that it is possible to activate states, perceptions and strategies of escape,
survival and healing, both individual and collective, in connection with cosmologies
other than Eurocentric ones.