Re-existencias: Residencia Artística en Colaboración con Guardianas de Saberes Ancestrales en Azuay

Abstract

This degree project proposes the creation of an artistic residency; based on the analysis of theoretical studies that contribute to the reflection on decoloniality, re-existences and collaborative and intercultural artistic practices, with the intention of promoting the production of visual poetics in co-authorship of women healers and emerging artists. The artistic residency format was developed in a hybrid way; that is, in the territory the resident artists had the opportunity to coexist with the women healers in their communities and workplaces, and through virtual sessions they dialogued and received suggestions from recognized cultural actors with long and medium trajectory in community management processes and collaborative artistic practices. After the residency, the artists continued visiting the women healers to build together, visual poetics that dialogue about their context, based on participatory action methodologies. Finally, an exhibition of the results of the process was organized in conjunction with an intercultural knowledge fair with the Jatari Warmi Association, in the Archaeological and Ethnobotanical Park of the Pumapungo Museum.