Conexión animal: construcción de otras representaciones sociales de animales-extraños a través de experiencias intersensibles.

Abstract

This research-creation project was developed during the Master in Artistic Studies, Faculty of Arts ASAB and is part of the research line, Critical Studies of corporealities, sensitivities and performativities. It presents a description of the experiences I have lived, in my work as a teacher in the area of biological sciences and sensitive experiences derived from artistic and cultural practices. This allows to show some social representations of nature, animals and bats. Its main objective is to explore possible experiential designs inspired by artistic practices, to generate intersensitive experiences in people. This is intended to transform the perceptive and representations that can be developed towards strange animals such as bats and that can unleash violent acts against them. A methodology based on the holistic research approach was proposed to address from different dimensions, complex environmental issues to the relationships of an individual with the other. Through the different epistemological models proposed, the following findings of the process are described: first, it was proposed that the written document of the degree work would be a sensitive expedition in which the reader would go through the different sensitive experiences to invite a transdisciplinary dialogue and a juxtaposition of what was investigated. Secondly, it was analyzed how sensitive experiences develop social representations and these can generate triggering processes of violence towards others. And finally, an intersensitive experience was designed as an articulating axis, in which it is assumed that participants were able to experience an intersensitive process, thus configuring other representations about bats.