¿Qué son las prácticas artísticas comunitarias?" Algunas reflexiones prácticas y teóricas en torno a la construcción del concepto

Abstract

Through the question “What are the Artistic Community Practices (ACP)?” this paper aims at doing some reflections, queries and contributions on the subject, discussing as well the very issue of defining these practices. As their theoretical approaches and artistic productions are so diverse, it becomes necessary to try an approximation to the concept by defining first what an ACP is not, enunciating thus some of their characteristics, in order to enrich the debate. As it will be seen, it won’t conclude with a precise definition, exposing instead the author’s several considerations on the topic. Through its development, the paper focuses on three different moments: in the first place, it gives an account of the theoretical perspective taken in order to render a provisional definition of the concept of ACP; then, the experience of an actual ACP -carried out by ten women of Guatavita´s community on the subject of collective memory´s reconstruction- is described and analyzed; finally, the last section provides some reflections aroused from the contrast between theory and practice, contributing thus to the construction of the concept of ACP.