Punctum-words: being struck by language as a research method in the arts

Abstract

This paper reflects on the specificities of research in visual poetics in relation to other lines and fields of knowledge, understanding that, in this type of research, the method must be formulated by the very poetics that drives it. I analyze two perspectives of methodological paths in arts research: one formulated by Jean Lancri (2002), and the pragmatics of cartography, approached by Luciano Costa (2014), to propose ways of making them singular in contact with my research poetics. This is crossed by a re-reading of the concept of punctum, by Roland Barthes (1984), linked to verbal language and the gender issues that permeate it. Understanding written work as part of this same poetics and the word being my main working material, I carry out some writing experiments in this text, seeking to convey, in practice, part of what is developed theoretically.