Beijo de línguas: quando o poeta surdo e o poeta ouvinte se encontram

Abstract

The present work investigates the poetic, ethic and (self-) educational experience accomplished by the group Corposinalizante, formed by deaf and hearing people, now responsible for Slam do Corpo, a rhyme battle that happens with an entanglement between the Portuguese language and the Brazilian Sign Language, two forms of language. Such effort to produce a neighborhood between these two worlds takes us through a path which escapes from the ideas of “deficiency” or “difference” offered by a normative and hegemonic point of view and it creates the possibility to think of the occurrence of distinct processes of differentiation. Likewise, it allows us to occupy and vacate certain words lurking around this experience, such as “accessibility” and “inclusion”, making us create different words, in connection with the vibrations of life. When the deaf poet and the hearing poet meet in the mixed poetic performances that take place in such Slam, the problem of translation operates in an autonomous and creative form, allowing tongues to kiss, to tension and to stretch one another. This is how Tongue Kiss drags us outside the prevalent logic that categorizes the bodies and exterminates its different knowledges and potencies, affirming the insubordinate and dangerous strength of alliances