The Political Dimension of Art Interventions in Casa Azul-Periferia de Arte

Abstract

This paper explores the intersections between art and politics proposed by the cycle of art interventions developed in the cultural
space Casa Azul-Periferia de Arte in San Luis city, between 2020 and 2021. Different actors intervene in the analyzed interventions,
deploying experimental communities to make visible and give a collective response to hate speech and practices. We emphasize
the aesthetic strategies put into play to elaborate and subvert violent discourses, focusing on those poetic mechanisms that destabilize hegemonic representations, in this case, the normative discursive constructions of genres. Through experimentation with
diverse materials, language configurations in different media and unprecedented social links, the aforementioned practices disarm
and reformulate the hierarchical models of masculinity and femininity, their expressions and desires, spread by hegemonic cultural forms of the social field.