Creación artística y movimientos sociales: redefinir la relación entre política y estética

Abstract

The praxis of social movements has been traditionally related to aesthetic creations, either in the visual sphere, in music composition or in oral communication. Painting, singing or talking about the problems of a particular society using aesthetic have been for certain groups a way of denouncing, attracting followers or communicate political projects.
These aesthetic creations, that usually break or redefine official cultural norms, are always polysemic: do they express issues against which social movements act or do they help to build new realities by proposing original, transgressive and performative aesthetic readings? In this article, by analyzing different aesthetic creations by social movements and organizations in Mexico, we argue that these creations are the synthesis of elements from different cultural environments while they go beyond political enunciation in order to redefine what is consider political and the way in which politics is done.