Atisbe: women-folklore-creation, the patchwork skirt: epistemological, political, methodological and ontological approaches of a research creation

Abstract

This research-creation aims to glimpse (atisbar) the creative process that is taking place between women-folklore-creation based on the experience of Laboratorio Mujeres y Folclor in the city of Bogotá. It is a patchwork skirt that reveals four perspectives in each of its ruffles that allow the research-creation approach, whilst, in each of its washers that permit an approach to research-creation, while at the same time, evidencing and mobilizing representation policies towards women in folk dance practices. The four ruffles of the skirt are: The falda (skirt) as a place of enunciation from which an epistemological bet is presented. The con-estares (co-being), where the flocklorisims are being enrolled as political evidence regarding women or folklorisms of feminization. The Conversas bailadas and the Gozaditos as constant creative-research feedback methods and methodological perspectives towards the creative process (Atisbe). Finally, the ritual-vital ontological transformation exhibited in the crucial dash made by the moving creative-research. Sewing, dressing and dancing this patchwork skirt shows how research-creation, as a methodology, is the sewing of these four perspectives. It reveals that what is relevant in research-creation and in folkloric dance practice is to generate and maintain the vitality of creative processes, both artistic research practices and life itself. The research is proof of the encounter of women-folklore-creation