A master thesis from Aalborg University
The Reinvention of the Empty Pedestal. Creating a Hybrid Artivistic Space Between Colombia and Denmark
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Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2023
Submitted on
2023-12-21
Pages
86 pages
Abstract
The 2019 to 2021 massive social mobilizations period in Colombia was the scenario in which various artistic collectives developed creative processes in social gatherings and demonstrations, among other strategies of active political participation. The Pos-Monumenta Festival was founded in 2020 to directly intervene in plazas públicas by using media artivism practices and methods from the visual arts, media arts, and performance art to foster spaces for open dialogue about topics like memory, justice, social participation, urban space, and co-creation, among others. The Pos-Monumenta Festival has expanded beyond the Colombian physical and virtual borders, and The Reinvention of the Empty Pedestal edition in May 2023 showed the potential of social media platforms usage, by bringing together representatives of the Misak and Muisca communities from Colombia and the Greenlandic community in Denmark, for a conversation about some of the topics mentioned. The “Little Brother & Sister Are Watching You” artistic collective’s approach to community-based and community-oriented collaborative creation relies heavily on contextualization and the willingness of the participants to interact, as well as synchronous a-synchronous communication. This thesis is a case study analysis of that festival edition and aims to include this seemingly local process, in an international scope of contemporary initiatives that emphasize the roles of media artivism, collaborative and community-based artistic practices, as seen in the curatorial approaches of the documenta_fifteen (Kassel, Germany, 2022), and Manifesta 14 (Prishtina, Kosovo, 2022) art festivals.
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