Human skin and artistic experience. Strategies of posibility or how to rethink our subjectivity
Abstract
Actually and with increasing profusion our existence is marked, organized and understood through an large amount of data. However, can we say that our being in the world can be interpreted, analyzed and perceived through these data flows?
Our skin, as a fundamental element in the conformation of our singularity, is understood from the scientific field as information that can be manipulated outside our organism. Impersonal processes where the conditions of personal and individual existence of each individual are not taken into account.
From these parameters, the artistic field tries to evidence and question this type of procedures, in principle foreign to our daily life. Thus, the skin appears as an area that must be rethought through new spaces, disciplines and techno-scientific tools, from which to deny established truth or true knowledge of science, whose mechanisms of reduction, abstraction and exhaustive cataloging of information fragments and their modification are displaced, provoking new ways from which to understand the human, but specially, new ways from which to understand our skin.
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