Peace and Art

Peace is an attitude and Art is a process and medium: Art and Peace are, by definition, two different paths. At Gernika Gogoratuz we propose to join these two paths as one. How? Through Collective Works.

Open and collective works mediated through non-verbal languages, preferably the plastic arts, in permanent (re)creation and transit between individual contributions and collective synergy.

At Gernika Gogoratuz we offer two complementary types of Collective Work:

1. The first, abstract, is developed uniquely and exclusively through the language of the plastic arts. Each person activates their own hollow silence, created by their abstract and unedited discourse and without allowing a single word to interfere, in order to relate to all those people with whom they converge in the collective empty silence. The objective is to detect our nearly unconscious pulses and attitudes, which are already impositive or considerate, towards other people.
2. The second, concrete, is also revealed, primarily, through the medium of plastic language, solely as it permits verbal complementation. The methodology consists in making verbal conflicts concrete and representing them artistically and applying this to personal, group and structural conflicts. The plastic arts help to amplify their significance (in meta-language or symbols) and make concrete the significance of stated conflicts. The image reveals this to us, far from the abstract or inaccessible word-sign, as a concrete reality (or a fragment of reality) which is therefore transformable.