Abstract

DIAZ, Yunuen. Terraforming. The seminal proposals of the Centro Rural de Arte. Humanidades (Montevideo. En línea) [online]. 2023, n.14, pp.233-254.  Epub Dec 01, 2023. ISSN 1510-5024.  https://doi.org/10.25185/14.10.

This article analyzes some of the proposals by the Centro Rural de Arte, a Buenos Aires platform for artistic projects that has been working since 2008 on the creation of poetics of the earth. To understand this practice, I present what I have named terraforming: aesthetic experiences that bring together concerns for the territory and the environment. These are seminal proposals where nature, rather than being a subject, is an experience of the world that is lived from the body. Returning to the concept of body-territory of Latin American feminisms, I present how the work of the Centro Rural de Arte has delved into a diversity of experiences that include walks, residences, meetings, interviews, compilation of cookbooks, interventions in markets and publications. If the concept of a body without organs proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari served as a metaphor to explain the disorders of post-modernity, through the work of the Centro Rural de Arte we will see how in the 21st century the body becomes organic, interdependent and territorialized, filling itself with affections and sensibilities.

Keywords : Contemporary art; nature; environment; earthly aesthetics.

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