Art and academia: Unity to raise awareness of gender-based violence

Abstract

Art can be a valuable tool to make visible and raise awareness regarding the violence that affects the lives of women through the experience of the installation called “Red Shoes” by the artist Elina Chauvet and the process of preparing the project using the methodology . Research – Participatory Action (PAR) by Ander-Egg (2002). The development of the project was carried out by a coordination team of academics and students who, through focus groups and with actions open to the participation of the community of the University Center, proposed, from a horizontal and collaborative. , each of the preparatory activities that were promoted as part of the process involved in developing the installation. The result can be part of what researcher Corona Berkin (2019) calls “horizontal construction of knowledge” in which theory and practice are part of the same process, since the installation of the shoes is the culmination of a collective experience in which the women who are involved in its preparation dialogue, reflect, listen and question the world that has been known since the imposition of a patriarchal logic that validates violence.