Complicidades e inconsistencias entre el arte y la política: Hacia una estética de lo invisible
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2015
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Escuela de Bellas Artes
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Al hacer referencia al cruce entre arte y política hay dos posturas
que emergen rápidamente: la negación absoluta de una posible convergencia
entre estos dos ámbitos y la consideración evidente, casi obvia, de que todo
arte es político. Así, nos enfrentamos a una oscilación entre lo imposible y lo
ineludible. Más que analizar qué tan eficaces, contradictorias o contestatarias
son las prácticas de estos nuevos artistas-activistas se trata de cuestionar los
parámetros que se encuentran en el eje de la discusión y explorar los puntos
de cruce entre el arte y la política desde la postura “indisciplinadamente
transdiciplinar” que proponen los Estudios visuales. Así, retomaré parte del
pensamiento de Jacques Rancière para argumentar que la estética entendida
como ámbito de suspensiones y reconfiguraciones de la experiencia sensible
es el elemento clave que permitirá las articulaciones, desembocando en el
esbozo de una “estética de lo invisible”.
Regarding the junction between art and politics there are two rapidly emerging postures: the absolute negation of a possible convergence between the two, and the evident consideration, almost obvious, that all art is political art. Thereby, we face an oscilation between the impossible and the inescapable. More than analyzing how efficient, contradictory or polemic the practices of this new activist-artists are, we need to question the parameters themselves of the categories we find in the focus of the discussion and explore the intersections between art and politics from the “undisciplined transdisciplination” position proposed by Visual Studies. In this direction, I return to Jacques Rancière`s thinking to argue that the aestethic interpreted as realm of suspensions and reconfigurations of the sensible experience is the key that allows articulations to occur, leading to the outline of an “aesthetics of the invisible.”
Regarding the junction between art and politics there are two rapidly emerging postures: the absolute negation of a possible convergence between the two, and the evident consideration, almost obvious, that all art is political art. Thereby, we face an oscilation between the impossible and the inescapable. More than analyzing how efficient, contradictory or polemic the practices of this new activist-artists are, we need to question the parameters themselves of the categories we find in the focus of the discussion and explore the intersections between art and politics from the “undisciplined transdisciplination” position proposed by Visual Studies. In this direction, I return to Jacques Rancière`s thinking to argue that the aestethic interpreted as realm of suspensions and reconfigurations of the sensible experience is the key that allows articulations to occur, leading to the outline of an “aesthetics of the invisible.”
Keywords
Estética, Política, Invisibilidad, Aesthetics, Politics, Invisibility