Art as a form of activism in society
Art, it can also be a means of transformation, a very important tool, and I believe it, because from my subjectivity, from my concept of what is art, I believe that art must transform people, art must generate a change (…) In the case of the military clown, we use it as a pedagogical strategy, to show what we wanted (complaint of the recruitment of lower disappearances by the State in the middle of the armed conflict);Then it generates a lot of laugh but in the background is the message. I have always been like a little given to the political part and what happens today, and from there this project was born, as to claim that death of those people, and things that continue to happen today."
It is important to seek how these historical precedents, other and new scenarios within the academic field, from research and professional practice, that viable the development of work, not only in the construction of meanings through language, but also deepenon the social construction of the body as canvas on which those meanings that are agreed and socially rebuilt are printed;All this through interactive techniques with the subjects, where the effects of experience can be seen in advance, on identity production processes in a modern-capitalist society..
Apparently we do not content ourselves with seeing the body as a complete work, but we actively intervene in it, to change its shape and constantly regulate your messages in dispute. The body becomes, part of a project in which we have to work indefinitely, which links the identity of ‘I’, and the one that is intended to project.
An example of this is the performances one of the most important techniques that frames claiming actions, through the body as a canvas for the enunciation, in this political case, (technique that uses in the assembly of a work memory e) being disappearedby the State. “People spend and observe, and so doing some political activism and artistic action, direct and non -violent action (…) everything says the body, the body speaks to you.We see here the sense of social projection that transversizes the performative action, which is born from a need for denunciation and contribution to change from the body, which generates an impression, a restlessness, a high on the road;This becomes a strategy for the peaceful revolution, as he reiterates under the term of ‘non -violent transgression’, on the contrary dialogic and artistic. We talked with our body, this becomes a nonverbal communication instrument, where meanings and messages are disputed in the middle of the interaction;In this way, posture, gestures, movements, the nonverbal, I understand art as accents, depths, tones, and individual reflections, which connect with the experiences of others in staging.
“Performance has a great physical and emotional load, of being a transgressive agent. When you say something not common, it is something that is not everyday, then one says, is something happening there? What is happening?"That is, nonverbal language challenges us all from the memory of our body and the awareness of our actions, in addition to placing ourselves in a social space/time, which implies the importance of being ‘touched’ without the need for violence, a little get the bandage and take emancipatory actions from art as a mediator between body and language, and in this case the clown or ‘clown technique’ becomes the right vehicle. “There is one thing that is to assault and another that is transgressing, so when you transgress you are more thoroughly, you are not assaulting, but you are touching something very inside them that conflicts, then as I from the body I can get another personAlso feel many things in your body ".
Performance, corporality and art combine as a counter-hegemonic element, to impact those daily spaces in which it is transitted without greater shock, as in the case of the performing action "Memory E: the memory of the disappeared", butThat one day they have meaning through ‘artistic activism’ as it describes it, that they get a smile, a restlessness, or an emotion when evoking a common experience with what is being communicated, but without using violence, which isThe purpose of any staging. We can identify with the body of the other, a body that speaks through the representations of everyday acts and is the object of a language game, becoming a means of denunciation and that at the same time allows us to experience the world.
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