En tensa calma: cuadernos y cuerpos para obrar, vincular y enternecer. Propuestas de investigación y de creación agencial, desde los Estudios Artísticos.

Abstract

In Tense Calm: Notebooks and Bodies to Act, Bind and Soften is an Artistic Studies research and agency-based creation project. In this work, I recognise relationships between artistic practices and practices of violence, especially gender violence. Furthermore, I study agency qualities in three processes of artistic, cultural and self-creation in Mexico and Colombia that confront violence with the sensible. The project suggests a displacement of the notions of artwork and artist, towards those of acting and agent. Acting, binding and softening are living concepts that carry within them the proposals of sensible acting, binding body and decolonial tenderness. These concepts vindicate the creative power of human bodies and other agents. At the same time, they name the three notebooks that constitute this research.