Ecosophy: intensive movements with the river

Abstract

The article discusses an investigation that articulates an artistic practice with Félix Guattari’s concept of ecosophy based on the following question: what can we learn from the river? A memory, a teaching, the relationship between words and images through the search for knowledge. This is a piece of writing that seeks to see doctoral research in Visual Arts in retrospect, which does not consist of a review, but rather a return to the text to think about it, which escapes academic research and converges with the way of living in society and the environment. Approaching the river from the ethical, aesthetic and political perspective suggested by the philosopher is also a way of producing subjectivity that seeks solutions to the crises of our time. Authors such as Gilles Deleuze, Suely Rolnik, Ailton Krenak and Paola Zordan, collaborate with the risk of proposing a pedagogy of the river.