Valeria Moro: I Was Just Looking For Someone Who Could See What I See Feel What I Feel

Thesis Supervisor: Grant Watson

Thesis: I Was Just Looking For Someone Who Could See What I See Feel What I Feel

August 2024

Abstract 

— Narratives that think while speaking (an abstract)

In a time of redefinition and reconstruction of identities, I perceive an urgent need to stay in communication with what remains elusive, unsaid, unknown. Where words seem insufficient and languages need to be rediscovered, I seek ways to engage with what emerges, searching for narrative forms capable of thinking while speaking. By borrowing from languages, thinkers, poetry, fragmented memories, cinematic movements, and shared experiences, I aim to adhere to narratives that stay within the fractures of a landscape of diverse knowledges. I analyse the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once as a pretext and foundation to develop a scattered, diffracted narrative, staying beside unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, and meanings. This approach searches for sense while avoiding making sense of the socially situated processes where identity continually reshapes itself in dynamic, relational poietic processes. I adopt languages that seem to think while speaking, reconfiguring themselves. From this perspective, the concepts of Chthonic being (Haraway), intra-action (Barad), cosmopolitics (Stengers), and pedagogies (M. Jacqui Alexander) emerge, composing and propelling the exploration of questions of presence and interlocution.This aims to uncover what one needs to understand in their ongoing process becoming who one is. Here, languages act as figurative mothers, originating the reinvention of self and creating spaces for dialogue in a liminal process of self-transformation.

Author: Valeria Moro