El autorretrato y la autoetnografìa: diseño metodológico de investigación - creación tomando el autorretrato como instrumento autoetnogràfico

Abstract

Since the eighties, my great desire was to enter a Faculty of Fine art and culminate higher studies in it. Today, after being a professional engineer in the Francisco José de Caldas District University, in the Master's Degree in Artistic Studies I managed to establish an integral being as a person, artist, engineer and social being. It is through artistic and cultural practice and the biographical experience of my autoethnographic self-portraits, during four decades, that I have been able to construct autobiographical stories. According to the above, the research - creation, presented here, has as its central axis Self - portrait and Autoethnography, applications that achieve their landing through the question: ¿How the study of uprooting, identity and memory allow to identify the self-portrait as an autoethnographic instrument? The tool of observation and analysis in the context of my sentient reality, the collection of memorial and historical information, analysis and interpretation from documentary sources and visual works, integrating part of my history, daily life and experiential events during three periods called: Grito Mudo, Apología al silencio and Los Indignados, achieve their approach through narratives from four contextual levels or experiential layers, raised as the being I - being a person and being individual, being an artist, being an engineer and being social, although it is the artist being who becomes the core of the stories around which the other layers are expressed: the self, the engineer and the social being (Attachments and Appendix are included as a contextual complement).