Cuerpo y Territorio (Body and Territory)

With the goal of reflecting on the violent events to which Colombians have been subjected ¿ particularly in the Caribbean region of the country ¿ and centering in the theme of the human figure ravaged by various violent agents, or in the bodies oppressed by abductions, or by the silence elicited by the fear of dying, The Ministry of Culture and its program Laboratorios de Mediación y Creación, and the Capirote Group, announce the opening of the call Cuerpo y Territorio. The call is open to visual artists ¿ schooled or self-taught ¿ art students, art enthusiasts interested in exploring the human figure as territory and source of creation, and especially to persons subjected, directly or indirectly, to any type of violence, or those who are simply interested in developing an aesthetic discourse based on bio-power conflicts. According to the project's coordinator, Edwin Jimeno, ¿While death is the most brutal event, there are also other forms of assailing the body ¿ such as mutilations resulting from torture, mines, or accidents, or being subjected to any kind of physical and psychological violence that somehow hurts or represses the body ¿ that deserve to be analyzed and reflected upon from a creative discourse. There is also room for reflecting on a form of violence that has increasingly become more pervasive: self-punishment as expiation or as a tool of surrender.¿ The laboratory will be divided into four modules, which will approach themes that are required fall under the following categories: Cuerpos Heridos o Mutilados (Injured or Mutilated Bodies); Arte para la Vida (Art for Life); La Fotografía como Documentación (Photography as Documentation); Anotaciones sobre Body Art (Notes on Body Art); Cuerpos Maltratados (Abused Bodies); Arte para Sanar (Art for Healing); and Nadie Sabe lo que Puede el Cuerpo (No One Knows What the Body Is Capable Of). The execution of the project will conform to a seminar-workshop methodology, and will include practical-theoretical encounters developed in four practical-theoretical modules that will last two days and that will be held during the months of August and November 2010. By the end of the second module, each participant must submit an individual or collective project of creation (action) that is associated with the actions of the remainder of the participants, with the goal of carrying out a great poetic action in the municipality of Santo Tomás.