Talk: Research-create in the key of human-non-human symbolic repair

Manuel Zuñiga

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SURATÓMICA NETWORK ENCOUNTERS

13.05.2023

10:00 a.m.

Live streaming on Youtube

Illustration by: Manuel Zuñiga

"To consider that a tree, as a non-human life form, be recognized as a victim of an armed conflict such as the Colombian one, implies, in part, to articulate multiple arguments in a transdisciplinary way, including the process to establish the form of symbolic reparation adjusted to its reality. So, what would be the way in which humans seek to make reparations to a non-human life form? Bearing in mind the attributes of intelligence and sensitivity in plants that Stefano Mancuso (2015) argues from plant neurobiology, and the ability to read signs according to the anthropologist Eduard Kohn (2013) and his proposal of the ontological turn, a complex creation research methodology is configured that assumes art as a bridge discipline between humans and non-humans from the transdisciplinary articulating principle of the "third party included", proposed by the theoretical physicist Basarab Nicolescu (1994). Thus, a methodology of complex research-creation, would allow to establish sensitive forms, or artistic practices, as the artistic form of the truly human according to the artist Fernando Escobar (2010), from the double condition of subjects/objects of study that involves both humans and non-humans".

Manuel Zuñiga. Research artist, curator and university professor, currently linked to the Hypermedia Design program at Los Libertadores. Master in Plastic Arts. Specialist in Environmental Management of Coastal Zones. Master in Development and Culture. Doctoral candidate in Complex Thinking. Academic Peer recognized by MinEducation. Peer evaluator and Junior Researcher recognized by MinCiencias. Director of the Museum of Art and Environment - MuMar, Cartagena de Indias (2012-2017). Coordinator of Research UTADEO Sectional Caribbean (2015-2018). Director of the Casa Museo Rafael Núñez, Cartagena de Indias (2018-2020). Strategic advisor on issues of intangible heritage, culture and social innovation of the Institute of Heritage and Culture of Cartagena - IPCC (2020; January to May 2021; January to May 2022). Recently, her research process articulates issues of art and culture with environmental concerns and historical memory. Her creative process values artistic practices where processes of post-production, collective and relational creation take place. She has multiple international papers and publications on art, culture, development, environment and symbolic reparation processes. He lives and works in Cartagena de Indias.