Sociosemiotic considerations for the study of artistic activism The case of ContraArte in the city of Córdoba, Argentina
Abstract
The aim of this work is to provide some socio-semiotic considerations for the study of artistic activism, while analyzing a particular case in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. First, we propose to introduce the reader about the importance of researching activism from a socio-semiotic perspective, recovering some basic notions of previous work on the subject (Leone, 2012; Cuevas-Calderón and Yalan Longo, 2021). Then, in a second instance, we dedicated ourselves to analyzing the interventions of a particular collective called Contraarte located in the Argentine social discourse of 2019, a time of deep crisis and mass protests after four years of economic difficulties, social and political consequences of the government of Mauricio Macri and the Cambiemos alliance. The results of the research show that semiotics is a relevant discipline for the study of activism (in this case the artistic one) and that allows to analyze, among other questions, how they are constructed, in the particular case that we investigate, grammars of political imagination as discursive regularities as contradictory to the prevailing hegemony.
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