NARRATIVE DIASPORAS: AN ANALYSIS OF MEDIA HYBRIDISM IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERFORMANCE READING IN GRADA KILOMBA

Abstract

Our temporality calls our attention to new formats of colonialism or to the materialization of racism practices which reverberate both in the daily life of social relations and in virtual environments, either through the words and neologisms of natural language, or through more outrageous explanation of prejudicial speeches and discourses, sometimes assured by institutional, political and even police authorities. Having given the problem, how can applied linguistics and the contemporary art, altogether, contribute to solve this issue and provide anti racism education? In an attempt to find possible answers, this article starts with studies, reflections and contributions on new and multi-tools to analyze how different languages are articulated to form the artistic genre “performance”, since other artistic formats convey messages, but do not provide such a dialogue with the centrality of the body, which is, in general, the beginning and the end of racist speeches. In order to do so, we take the performance Narciso and Eco, by Grada Kilomba, as a corpus, seeking to identify the main characteristics of the genre in it, proposing to investigate how the performance articulates different media and languages to build intertextually an explanatory post-colonial and decolonial narrative of the subtle materialization of racism. For such, the reflections presented here consider a current context denouncing episodes of racism at the global level, discuss the introduction of digital languages in this artistic genre and highlight, from the multi-tools perspective, what the demands for reading this hybrid artistic genre are. Along these lines, this article demonstrates how interwoven with performance art the digital language (the target of multi-tools) is, pointing to the need to respond these demands on the educational level.