Plasticity. Towards the construction of subjectivity from the accident. An analysis from Catherine Malabou and Hans-Georg Gadamer to rethink dance.

An analysis from Catherine Malabou and Hans-Georg Gadamer to rethink dance.

Abstract

Today, philosophy and aesthetics, in particular, challenge the reflection on how sensibilities can understand the work of art as a possibility of discovering themselves as subjects who construct their subjectivity. If aesthetics only focuses on art for art's sake, it can ignore its impact on individuals' histories. To address this, the work suggests a re-examination of the plasticity concept, as philosopher Catherine Malabou developed. To approach dance, this will use a methodology and hermeneutic analysis based on Hans-Georg Gadamer's aesthetics. Both proposals look at dance, which, from its artistic and aesthetic conditions, places us in the existential state of how to live is also to dance.  Plasticity is more than just a concept; it's a process by which individuals discover their subjectivity. It allows us to move away from the logical and formal constraints that condition us. Through plasticity, we can form our identities not only by what we are currently but also by what we may become, encompassing even the fractures and interruptions in our lives. Thus, the aesthetic experience of the symbol in dance offers us the possibility of constructing ourselves from our accidents and fractures.