Resumo:
This master's dissertation is an autoethnographic research in the field of somaticperformative studies. The main question of this work is: How can stigmatizing symbology be
re-signified scenically in order to highlight the potential and corporeal elements that define a
body as fat, by denouncing, combating, contextualising and analysing social fatphobic
violence? In order to deepen the experiences of the author's own fat body, the work draws from
thoughts and narratives of other dissident corporealities, in the light of artistic, anthropological,
sociological, historical and philosophical theories, to investigate, through artistic practices,
some physical components - weight, fat, and fascia - as devices for creative and bodily
activation for the scene. This practice-led research, based specifically on the SomaticPerformative Practice approach, was developed through creative laboratories and body
techniques such as Authentic Movement, Body-Mind Centering (BMC), besides other
performative programs. By asserting her fat identity and singularity, assuming herself as a
corpa gorda (a fat female body) that challenges and disobeys a social normative system, the
author discusses her creative process, presenting artistic strategies and methodologies that
highlight the political aspects of a corpa gorda, through a scenic-performative experiment
named ContraPeso.
