Artistic mediation in university environments: the corporal, the emotional and the performative

Abstract

Art is capable of creating knowledge and is shown, today, as a very valuable social instrument capable of bringing into play values and criteria that societies need to be fairer and more democratic. The connection between art and education that takes place in Art Mediation is one of the most valuable tools for learning. Through artistic production we build a space where art engages with the global social and technological reality and responds as a source of new meanings, approaches and reflections on reality. It is a tool for criticism and reflection that imagines possible worlds that are more equitable. Its collective nature favours a horizontal transmission of knowledge, where the spectator ceases to be a spectator and becomes an active creative agent. Through a collective experience of creation with students of Primary Education, we have reflected on the importance of artistic mediation in the educational sphere and its benefits in learning and the development of a freer, more equitable and just feminine and masculine identity. The creation has been channelled through a collective performance where the relationships between body, emotions and cognition have been put into play as an indissoluble rhizomatic structure.