De adelante hacia atrás: El arte del conocimiento

Abstract

This article addresses the question of convention, and its multiple fractures, in the broad process of civilizational crisis, which Western culture has been going through for some decades.
In this way, the regimes of production of meaning that have organized the form of scenic – theatrical – representation are put into consideration, and how this has been questioned from the art itself (of performance), first, and from scientific inquiry, later. And although the implicances of these successive movements of criticism and openness are still invaluable, the profound transformation they announce seems indisputable; since what at some point was a subversion of representational convention in the framework of artistic production has now given rise to movements of epistemic subversion, which therefore promise an unprecedented turnaround.
Likewise, and in this purpose of tracing the process of cracking of the forms of sense production and their contracts of convention, the article addresses the question of the frameworks of origin of alternate ethical and aesthetic contributions, trying to revalue the presence of non western worldviews, particularly indigenous ones, in the refoundation process that is outlined, taking up presumably “past” elements towards a future cultural project.

Convention

Western civilization

Theater

Knowledge

Indigenous

Worldviews