Miedo y colectivo: utopía y distopía de una experiencia audiovisual de creación colectiva en torno a la inclusión y la exclusión

Abstract

Who are we and what are our circumstances? This is the sociopolitical question that frames all the reflection that has emerged throughout this degree work. Plating and living an audiovisual experience of collective creation with children between 9 and 15 years old, belonging to popular neighborhoods, which revolved around questions such as what is exclusion and inclusion and how we live it daily, implies that all the participants involved are affected in one way or another by these questions. This is where the real plastic exercise resides, in understanding that every individual question is a question about the whole of the world and the relationships that constitute it. Raising a horizontal dynamic of collective creation, where children could put their concerns and tastes on the table, was the prefigurative political horizon that drove this project. Its development was showing that any social relationship that seeks to be transformative, implies a leap into the void that can produce terror, a feeling that also guides the relationships of social exclusion, which produce their own monsters and ghosts that give them meaning. Around this, as a correlate of the very difficulty involved in setting up an audiovisual laboratory, he turned the short film made by the children. In the end, it was only the abstraction of the images, which are projected on a screen, that helped to understand the complexity of an everyday experience as overwhelming, that leaves open a multiplicity of questions, and the indeterminability of the answers. This is the ghost of politics, which constantly tries to survive the daily oblivion of social life.