La creación artística y la institucionalización de imaginarios sociales

Abstract

The research named “Artistic creation and institutionalization of social imaginaries” in Taller Sur Art School in Bogotá city, was motivated to recognize the potential of a social, community and youth process, around the formation in artistic modalities, which made viable the artistic creation, political empowerment of young participants, and institutionalization of social imaginaries, around the resistant and emancipating role of art and culture. In such a sense, we inquired about the relational dynamics between the artistic creation, the politics-esthetics relation, and social imaginaries. The data recollection instruments were the interviews carried out with some participants and the artistic works of collective creation. The methodological strategy consisted in the use of semiotics in order to analyze and interpret the signification environment created in this School. Between the most significant results, we highlight the following: the artistic formation and creation, which opened a space for the integrality of the human being, including its integrality as an artist; the resignification of the imaginary about being an artist; the political formation and qualification, that allowed the political empowerment of the participants; the creation of artistic works, as a mode of conscientious behavior; the territorial as a conscious presence in the habitat, which made viable a sense of belonging with the territorial environment. All of this, constitutes to this process, as an artistic and formation one for the resignification of life.