Tránsito entre saberes: una epifanía artística y epistémica en el territorio Amazónico

Abstract

The following research aims to analyse how the transit between types of knowledge between the eurocentric model, my dance studies and “other” knowledge that have come up out of my experience after living in the Amazon basin while sharing with people from Maguta and Yalcón ethnic groups in Puerto Nariño and Puerto Esperanza (Colombian Amazon) helped reshape my artistic biases and my dance movement. This project was carried out through autoethnography, the approach relies on research while creating or action research. The tools used were: written and choreographic field notes, analysis of experiences from living in the Amazon, corpographies (body graphs) and reflective dialogues. Findings suggest that the transit between types of knowledge influenced the reconfiguration of my artistic prejudice, due to the problematisation of aesthetics, beauty and fine arts (kant, 1876), given that such opening to other forms of producing danced knowledge allowed me to question such notions, likewise reshaped my artistic biases, it also reshaped my moved dance by avoiding the pretense of a technical move, by questioning the rationalisation of movement and by exploring other forms of movement in relation to the territory. The aforementioned allowed me to find a hybrid movement, made of technical codes from western dance and codes that represent the intent to reach to hold and to relate to nature through other sensitive forms and epistemic of movement. It must be clarified that my exploration has not finished and I continue on a dance search torn apart from rationalisation and pretense of movement. My research adds to the problematisation of artistic practices that ranks types of knowledge and keeps other forms of producing knowledge and art as subordinates, likewise this research highlights “other” epistemic, sensitive and dance movement forms that have been overshadowed by western colonialism power.