Devenir narradora: Prácticas de escritura desde la afectación sensible

Abstract

Writing from affects as a research methodology. In this article, I propose Suely Rolnik's notion of vibrant body and Walter Benjamin's approach to the figure of the storyteller as coordinates to organize an arts research writing practice. The sensitive, corporeal, sensory, imaginative, and reflective impressions that emerge from the exchange with artistic practice have the potential to produce a micropolitical action space. This territory can be traced as a situated and singular knowledge from writing, and more specifically from narration as an approximation to sensible experience. The starting point is my position as a spectator-researcher of contemporary performing art practices. From this position, I focus on the seed of subjective transformation that could appear after the encounter with artistic practices. From this interaction arises a storyteller-researcher becoming. Writing becomes a practice that seeks to resonate with the power of micropolitical transformation that the work of artists is able to produce.