A Body-experiment in the Education of the Arts for people with visual impairments

Abstract

This writing contributes to the field of art education for people with visual impairments through the mobilization of affects and percepts (DELEUZE; GUATTARI, 2010), triggered in an experimental inclusive theater training. These bodily crossings are put into operation during the meetings of an extension project called the Body Arts Experimentation Group (GEACORP), offered at an institution specialized in the education of people with visual impairments, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In this context, the aim is to provoke thought about the notion of the body-experiment as a surface that embraces the activation of constituted bodily memories and knowledge – transforming them into creative potentials – in the experience with visual impairment. To this end, a combination of approaches and body trainings – the Viewpoints – outlined by Bogart and Landau (2017) is used. Thus, by mapping these bodily mobilizations through discussion circles during the group meetings, the inscription and weaving of crossings caused by the affects and percepts overflowing in the body-experiment are observed. Therefore, the procedures adopted in the project in question have been creating possibilities in the production of meanings in view of a perception of the difference of bodies that break through (in their own way and amid experimentation) some limits imposed by visual impairment.