Expressive Practices of Doing and Daily Life During the Social Uprising in Bogotá in 2021

Abstract

This paper aims to position the practices of doing and daily life as aesthetic-expressive demonstrations, based on which we have been able to think about alternate ways to do resistance and politics during the 2021 National Strike in Bogotá while under restrictions related to COVID-19. The methodology uses the perspective of care and affection to do, from the authors' personal experience, an experiential journey through the atmospheres and intensity felt during the protests and the ways in which the forms of expression appeared in actions such as the potluck suppers, the daily home practices, and class seminars. All of these daily life scenarios of the authors allowed us to think about the very relationships between the public and the private, and the complex relationship between art and politics. In conclusion, we think that the first exercise is necessary to understand the conditions in which a subversive and political art takes shape through care and affection. From there, and returning the community qualities to artistic practices, it is possible to guide the questions based on how art weaves in expressiveness that sustain political action and its subversive force. We also share, for this journey, a few collages inspired by this paper, made by Valentina Arias Rojas, a member and colleague of the research incubator.