O rossio da língua portuguesa: sons, sentidos, ruídos e conexões

Abstract

The Rossio of the Portuguese Language investigates how the concept of creolization, as formulated by Édouard Glissant and expanded by Mário Lúcio de Sousa, can sustain an active, situated, and relational listening among the territories officially speaking the Portuguese language. More than a historical inheritance, creolization is understood as a living practice of coexistence and an ethical-aesthetic foundation for thinking creative media from the Global South. The object of the research is creolization as a process of relation and symbolic coexistence. The product that materializes this gesture is Rossio da Língua Portuguesa, a podcast series that transforms listening into language and sound into a territory of thought. The dissertation thus proposes a methodological and curatorial innovation: to understand the podcast not merely as a format but as a relational technology and a field of symbolic resistance to algorithmic homogenization. Anchored in more than twenty years of curatorial practice, this research-creation rejects academic extractivism and assumes listening as a method, a political gesture, and a form of thought. Its theoretical foundation engages with Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Yuk Hui, Édouard Glissant, Mário Lúcio de Sousa, David Slater, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, enabling an understanding of the Portuguese language as a living medium— technical, historical, and symbolic—where tensions between the Global South and the Global North are continuously negotiated. The Rossio series is not merely a medium but a curatorial device that turns sound into a field of critical coexistence, establishing a Creole cosmo-technic — a way of inhabiting technology through relation, difference, and shared imagination.