Abstract

ARIAS HERRERA, Juan Carlos. Resilience and Otherness: Transformations of Artistic Practices Based on the Work with "the Other". Pensam. palabra obra [online]. 2020, n.23, pp.46-59.  Epub May 09, 2021. ISSN 2011-804X.  https://doi.org/10.17227/ppo.num23-10441.

Working with others is a broadly explored place in contemporary art. In the last three decades, several authors have coined different categories (e.g. relational aesthetics or the ethnographic turn) in order to describe and critically comprehend what to focus on the relationship with others implies. In countries that have experienced the consequences of several decades of internal conflicts, like Colombia, the relationship between art and community has been defined, from different perspectives, in terms of resilience and reconstruction of the social framework. It is a common place to think of the arts from its capacity to enunciate the traumas, and to repair, through symbolic narratives, what violence has broken. Art acquires, thus, an almost therapeutic power that transforms the other and produces a deep impact on the author who develops a specific practice. This article focuses on that issue: ¿what does the experience of working with other imply for the one who takes the role of creator? Through an analysis of the notion of production in the field of arts, I propose to explore how artistic practices are redefined when they face a radical otherness, beyond the stories of personal life lessons, and of possible subjective transformations for the artists.

Keywords : art; resilience; otherness; transformation.

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