Conversations with the invisible: performing arts and spiritualities

Abstract

We live in a moment in which the necropolitics supported by the public machine puts our survival at risk. In Brazil, we are concerned about the growth of mental illness and suicide, especially among younger people and those belonging to minority groups; the Amazon has suffered, in these past four years, the highest rate of devastation in recent decades and governments are still far from promoting policies that recover the environment; Conflicts have intensified between different groups that make up our society. The insecurity of a significant portion of society, which sees itself alienated from progressive discussions, feeds what can be considered the greatest crisis of democracy since redemocratization in 1985. The adherence of a portion of the population to a discourse sustained by distorted information in for the construction of a mythological leader shifted the discussion about public policies to the field of morals and religion, making thought one of the main arenas of dispute between different discourses.