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

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Authors: Santiago Martín de Salterain

In the present text I intend, combining certain conceptions of different thinkers, to propose that the so-called "new media art" can be understood (at least in part) as a special type of "detour". To be more specific, I would like to propose that artists who work with "technical devices" carry out "artistic deviations of information"

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Authors: Rubén Darío Yepes Muñoz

This article examines some of the aesthetic strategies through which the visual arts have approached violence in Colombia over the last two decades. The main argument is that these strategies are post-representational: the artists and works in question do not simply seek to represent or document violence and its victims; rather, they seek to inter-vene in the contexts of violence. The article examines the af-fective mediation of violence through the artworks in ques-tion, suggesting that this mediation is key to their agency

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Authors: Pablo Domínguez Galbraith

This article aims to articulate the conceptual notion of foren-sic aesthetics developed by Eyal Weizman, Thomas Keenan, and the Forensic Architecture Project, as well as by the work and perspective of forensic anthropology and the theoreti-cal, philosophical, and artistic framework and practices re-lated. It traces the evolution of the landscape of politics of disappearance in Latin America, and the recent history of its revival in Mexico. Moreover, the article analyses the case of Ayotzinapa, and how the Forensic Architecture Project intervenes with the development of the Ayotzinapa Plat-form and an exhibition in the Contemporary Universitary Art Museum (MUAC) at UNAM in Mexico City. Lastly, this work is inscribed in the horizon offorensic aesthetics that have been developed in Mexico in recent years