Atame: performing the dismantled mechanical body

Authors

  • Otávio Guimarães Tavares Universidade Federal do Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2018v14n2p37

Abstract

This essay explores Brazilian digital author Wilton Azevedo’s work Atame: a angústia do precário in view of its multiple versions – as live performance, interactive DVD, and video-poem – and the possible implications of these different modes of operating. At the same time, I attempt to read the work as marked by the character’s bodily fragmentation in a post breakup scenario, in which her dilacerated body becomes materially present to us by means of how we navigate through the work. What we have is thus a double articulation in which the multiple versions of the work and the character’s attempt to reconstitute a lost body are presented as invariably frustrated by a tension between human and machine which ties the character’s and the work’s final mode of being.

Author Biography

Otávio Guimarães Tavares, Universidade Federal do Pará

Professor no Instituto de Letras e Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA). Doutor (2015) e Mestre (2010) em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Bacharel em Letras - Língua Inglesa e Literaturas (2008) pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). É líder do grupo de pesquisa NELAA - Núcleo de Estudos em Literaturas e Artes Anglófonas. É membro do Núcleo de Pesquisa em Informática, Literatura e Linguística (NuPILL/UFSC) desde 2005.

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Published

2018-12-21

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Vol. 14 No. 2 (2018)

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