A "janela da expressão"

reflexões sobre corpo, movimento e gesto nas relações entre visão e cegueira

Abstract

The article considers the non-discursive means that mediate the relationship between expression and communication between blind and nonblind people. What are the implications of an interaction that is based on the double condition of seeing and not being seen / not seen and being seen? What is the role of movements and gestures in this communicative experience? The social restriction of touch between people has implications for the apprehension, by blind people, of a communicative body language present in the gestures, either as a form of cultural knowledge or as an expressive resource in the interaction relations. I discuss the consequences of this hiatus on the basis of the creative possibilities that open up for the rescue and construction of this body language through art, with the participation, as part of fieldwork, in theater workshops with blind and nonblind persons.