Revista Académica Estesis

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Authors: Ayelén Zaretti Emiliano Sacchi

Recent socio-technical transformations have transformed our experience of culture. In this context, the body as a functional organism that produces and reproduces modernity has given rise to other experiences of corporality. The computerization, molecularization, genetization of life have blurred the lim-its of the body-organism, the current knowledge and powers draw new lines of visibility and the body's enunciability. This decomposed in a post-organic plane becomes the object of de-sign and improvement according to the transformations of an increasingly semiotic and informational capitalism that clogs other bodies that are virtually possible. However, this same experience is capable of working critically against mod-ern logics, eating away from the norms and behaviors for the material reproduction of the contemporary world. In this sense, bioart and transgenic art allow to highlight some fea-tures of this transformation and the techno-political tensions that inhabit it

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Authors: Celina Van Dembroucke

Violence is a central theme in Latin American art. From consecrated artists like Brazilian Rosângela Rennó, the Co-lombian Doris Salcedo or the Argentine Leon Ferrari, until newer generations, violence continues to be an inescapable subject. This article deals with how certain artistic practices evoke it away from the pursue of shock and explicitness by working with metaphors or subterfuges to denounce a vio-lent past or present. The paper explores two new artists and two with a long career. Among those who belong to a new-er generation, the article reviews the work of the Mexican photographer Clauzzia Gómez, and that of Adriana Corral, artist from El Paso, Texas. Among the internationally recog-nized artists, the paper focuses on the work Auras anón-imas (2007-2009) by Colombian Beatriz González, and reflects, as a counter-example of the figurative treatment of the violent, in the work of Mexican Teresa Margolles

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Authors: Juan Felipe Pérez Taborda

This article aims to demonstrate some research-creation pro-cesses that inquire into the concerns and dynamics related to the terms art and ethnography, which are an integral part of the methodological creation strategy for contemporary ar-tistic practices addressed in a Master’s project, starting from of which I seek to raise awareness about the social problems that affect marginal society and the inhabitants of the city of Medellín. From various references and disciplines, such as sociology, ethnography, anthropology and microbiology, I will delve into the identification and collection of taxonomic objects, urban architecture and the space to inhabit, in the search for new aesthetic expressions whose integration al-lows to chart a path towards co-creation in contemporary artistic practices based on social issues and habitability in the street as an object of study.The installation as a work proposal, collects and creatively processes its vestiges, traces and traces of existence in these urban spaces, thus evidencing a research-creation result, is presented as the artistic device that allows dialogue between languages, symbols and dissimilar constructions of how street reality is lived in the city, especially from the perspec-tive of those who inhabit it and dwell under the bridges and viaducts outside the Medellín River, in the downtown area of the city