To Depart and to Belong: Cartographing a Body in Languages Migration

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i28.656

Keywords:

migration; language; video; poetry; body.

Abstract

This essay brings a proposition of practice as research, as we cartograph a territory from affections to create images in the aesthetic languages of video and poetry. Places can activate embodied images, as we connect to the environment and create landscapes. This dramaturgy of images (from our experiences and imaginations) meets other forms of body presentation when we displace subject and object, as suggested in examples of creative production. I intend to suggest a content that establishes a dynamic interconnection of praxis and theory inspired by Bergson, Didi-Huberman, Leda Martins and Jean-Luc Nancy writings on image, narrative and visuality. The practice of a self-territoriality and performativity invite aesthetic displacements to take place.

Author Biography

Monica Toledo Silva, Postgraduate Program in Communication and Semiotics, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PPGCOM PUC-SP), Brazil

Monica Toledo Silva is a Brazilian independent professor, artist, and researcher of body images in audiovisual arts. Writer and dancer, with a series of videos and installations, and published essays investigating performative image and notions of presence and displacement, territory and landscape.

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Published

17.05.2026

How to Cite

Toledo Silva, M. (2026). To Depart and to Belong: Cartographing a Body in Languages Migration. AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, (39). https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i28.656

Issue

No. 39 (2026): Issue No. 39, April 2026 – Main Topic: Collaborating Across Borders

Section

MAIN TOPIC: Collaborating Across Borders

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