Estrategias del arte participativo: Entre la micro-política y el software social

Abstract

Hybridization of digital technologies with all human activities has triggered an irreversible transformation in many aspects of our daily lives but especially in sociocultural construction processes; ephemeral, hybridity, virtuality, interactivity, heterogenity, disruptiveness, are axes around which we build new social relations. Matter of analysis and reflection in the developing of contemporary art practices. In this sense, participatory strategies promoted by artistic practices develop relationship structures, spaces for encounter, dialogue, common action and collective self-production. We could say that these artistic practices explore the field of social relations (social entanglement and engagement) and their expressive, narrative, politic, poetic or aesthetic, potentials. This article proposes an analysis of participatory artistic strategies as hybrid and interdisciplinary tools that lead through new research methodologies to new ways of producing subjectivity and visuality, social production and cultural emancipation.