¿Qué relatos, desde el arte audiovisual, para los tiempos de descenso civilizatorio?

Abstract

Faced with the worsening of the ecosocial crisis and the beginning of sociometabolic degrowth, art is called upon to participate in the design and communication of a culture of sustainability that facilitates ecosocial transitions appropriate to the new scenarios. The idea of proposing ‘transition narratives’, from a multiplicity of languages, is reinforced by promoting the media with the greatest social impact, such as the audiovisual in all its typologies. The idea of ‘an aesthetics of degrowth’ or humble aesthetics, is concretized by creating vectors for the transformation of imaginaries from the assumptions of the Ecological Humanities, seeking to build empathetic discourses for an aesthetics of the necessary austerity. In the first place, we will point out that we need discourses that speak to us of the achievable, not only of the desirable: the commitment is in the feasibility, in that necessary middle ground between realism and utopia. Words and images that seduce, but from the attractiveness of what is possible with effort.