Ethical and Aesthetic Aquilombamentos

a Poetic-Politics in the Context of Black Theatricalities

Abstract

This article aims to think about and elaborate a conceptual notion of aquilombamento (marooning) in the context of Black theatricalities, inside and outside the scene. Based on the historical meanings of the word quilombo, its movement and resemantizations and the understanding that a Black body is also a body-quilombo, it intends to reflect on the act of aquilombar (to maroon), from which afrographed identities and poetics emerge in and by the relations of contact, contamination, and transcendences. The aquilombamento is thought of as an ethical and aesthetic action grounded on the movement, on the crossing and the (re)creation, and is forged by the radical processes of relationality of Blackness bodies.