The work proposes an extension of the imaginary for the approach to conflicts and describes the concept and methodology that consist of the activation of aesthetic spaces of confluence and their management, through two variables: the relational plastic and the BatzArt or the CREActiva assembly. It is framed within the artivism and, specifically, in the laboratory-workshop format, as an intersection between the public art Site Specific, the happening and direct action.
INDEX
Foreword. Painting Peace
William Kelly
Preface
Acknowledgements
I. Introduction to Dia-Tekhne- : Relational Plastics and CreActiva Assembly
Relational Plastics
BatzArt or CreActive Assembly
II. Characteristics of Dia-Tekhne-
Relational Plastics
BatzArt or CreActive Assembly
III. “Artification” of reality and relational art.
Art-historical background I
The banyan tree or rhizome-tree of modern art
Branch 1: from assemblage to ‘Site Specific’.
Branch 2: From Painting to Environment, from Environment to Happening
The crossover between the painting branch and the performance branch
Branch 4: from surrealism to the Situationist International
Strand 5: from conceptualism to artivism
Artivist Media
Relational Art
IV. From the Denouncement of War to the Announcement of Peace.
Art-historical background II
Periodical denunciation of the ‘disasters of war’.
The bombing of Guernica
Unveiling the causes of war
The Vietnam War
Chronological and historical continuation
Clandestine chronicle of the ‘disasters of war’.
From the affective announcement of peace to its effective construction
V. From socialist realism to social realisation.
Art-historical background III
Marxism and the Arts: Socialist Realism
Marxism’s first transformation: the new Left
Second transformation: from East-West blocs to North-South blocs
Third transformation: the rotation of the fault lines
Upperground and fifth columnism
Towards social realisation
VI. Broadening the Imaginary for Conflict Management
From the dichotomous and linear black-and-white imaginary
to the reticular and spherical imaginary in colour
Relational mythology
Linear-bipolar and circular-multipolar scenarios: conflict = ‘conflux’
VII. Activation of aesthetic spaces of confluence and relationship between people
The physical place
The cultural place
Generic activation of aesthetic areas of confluence and relationship between different people
VIII. Management of aesthetic spaces of confluence of people:
Relational Plastic
Rule n.º 1: abstract and/or figurative non-referential language
Rule n.º 2: colour cycle of the chromatic circle
Performative exercises of Relational Plastic Arts: Mandala-Circus on empty space and Intercultural Wiphala on prefigured space.
IX. Relational Plastics on empty space: Mandala-Circus
Introduction to Mandala-Circus
Development of the Mandala-Circus: from the house to the street, from the street to the square
Dia-Tekhne- or dialogue through art resources
Systematisation of impressions and comments of actors
Texts of women actors as performers
X. Relational Plastic Art on prefigured space: Intercultural Wiphala
From the original Wiphala to its intercultural and mestizo version
Development of the Intercultural Wiphala
From conceptual to performance and public art
XI. BatzArt or Creative Assembly and activation of aesthetic spaces of direct democracy
Origin of BatzArt
Evolution of BatzArt or CreativeAssembly
Conclusion and ajar closure
Epilogue. The path of artivism
Iñaki Arzoz
Bibliography
Catalogue of colour images
Carrascosa, Alex, 2009. Red Gernika 11, Bakeaz & Gernika Gogoratuz.
ISBN: 978-84-92804-03-0
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