Abstract

CASTRILLON BAQUERO, Jolyn Elena et al. Armed Conflict Victims in the City of Medellin: An Aesthetic Interpretation of Political Participation. Ágora U.S.B. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.2, pp.513-533. ISSN 1657-8031.  https://doi.org/10.21500/16578031.3287.

The configuration of performance, linked to the practice of the sit-in, as the scenario for public participation, refers on the one hand, to the tragic theatre function by exposing as a political phenomenon, the enforced disappearances and the questioning of the kind of society and values, which are built around it. It also makes visible a collective aesthetic based on the affective as a cover aimed at generating emotional evocations in the public sphere and thus, expand the participatory echo of the organization, which influences society, setting up the possibility of a political wisdom, since it exposes the tragic vision of revealing the senses of the unique stories of each family, this is what is made evident in the compression of the senses and meanings of “Roads of Hope Organization” - The Mothers of La Candelaria,” which is an organization of mothers of victims of the armed conflict, in the city of Medellín, Colombia.

Keywords : Performance; Victims of the Armed Conflict; Indemnity; Participation; Symbolization..

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