A (des)construção estética de jardim zoológico, de Wilson Bueno: uma poética de sintomas e tensões

Abstract

This reseach seeks to examine the manner in which Jardim Zoológico (1999), by Wilson Bueno, critically rearticulates the tradition of Medieval and Renaissance bestiaries, with the objective of apprehending the extent to which such cultural production is informed by what Georges DidiHuberman (2013) conceptualizes as symptom, by constituting itself through a complex of tensions and dialogues, convergences and disparities; in short, a network of relationships that connects it to the Western zoopoetic and zooliterary tradition, while simultaneously situating it in a territory of philosophical, ontological, and aesthetic reconfigurations, which reflect discussions on the representation of non-human beings in contemporary times. This research is grounded in hypotheses formulated through the dialogical reflection between the selected corpus, the aesthetic-philosophical concepts examined, among which we emphasize the deviranimal (Deleuze and Guattari, 1995), the devir-escrita (Deleuze and Guattari, 2002) and the Bataille’s notion of informe (2018), and the bibliographic body associated with the Western zooliterary tradition, adopting a qualitative, bibliographic, and exploratory approach. Based on the analyzed aspects, it is possible to observe that Bueno’s work unfolds through a paradoxical dynamic, insofar as it establishes disjunctive relations across distinct levels and instances, while nonetheless materializing an aesthetic project that enables alternative modes of representing non-human beings and animality, as well as other ways of producing meanings and knowledge about both.