FENOMENOLOGIA TEATRAL: Da Crise ao Despertar de um Artista-Pesquisador

Abstract

This thesis investigates the articulation between phenomenological experience and poetic methodology in artistic research, from the perspective of the artist-researcher. Inspired by the narrative structure of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, the work proposes a symbolic journey through affective and conceptual territories that embody the main methodological challenges faced in artistic creation. The central question is how to develop a methodology in the arts that acknowledges and values subjectivity, poetics, and the complexity of lived experience. To this end, the thesis adopts an embodied phenomenological approach that interweaves poetic writing, critical analysis, and performative experiences. Each chapter represents the overcoming of a “sin” — metaphors for the obstacles in the creative process — and proposes conceptual displacements that culminate in the formulation of seven original concepts: Scenic Nourishment, Generous Economy of the Scene, Scenic Disarmament, Floating Dramaturgy, Creative Desire, Acting as a State of Being, and Collective Acting. The results show that integrating theatrical phenomenology with poetic writing not only produces a unique methodology but also enables the emergence of an expanded creative consciousness. It concludes that artistic research can be constituted as both an aesthetic and epistemological practice, and that the method, rather than being a fixed formula, can assume a living, relational, and open form.