Lijando muros : estrategias antiespecistas y la enseñanza como método de creación artística

Abstract

Sanding is a metaphor used to refer to the process of gradually and steadily narrowing the gap between a speciesist culture—which views animals as objects, products, and resources—and an emerging ideology that recognizes them as sentient beings, with interests and the right to a life free from exploitation. This project is the result of pedagogical work carried out in the San Benito neighborhood of Bogotá: a territory marked by the fur industry and tanneries. Through creative workshops developed with students from the San Benito Abad School, art education was used as a tool to question speciesism and cultivate an animalist, vegan, and anti-speciesist position. Sanding Walls is an exercise in cultural transformation, where art becomes a political and pedagogical act that invites us to rethink our relationship with other species.