Territory (ies) and multicultural identities. The agoras as spaces of identity in the communities of the Cauca corridor.

Sebero Emilio Ugarte Calleja,Eduardo Jose Castro,Julián Grijalba

doi:10.4013/sdrj.2019.122.13

Abstract

The Cauca corridor, comprised between Santander de Quilichao and Piendamó populations, is one of the many territorial realities that enrich both cultural and ethnographic diversity of Colombia. Many “new” dynamics are occurred in this region about this diversity, and the project that we present is focused on – from the creation-researching- and by means of a direct interpretation that territorial diversity. Based on the photography and the sound landscape, we pretend to show a possible idea of cultural territory (ies), and it is surrounding the exhibiting sketch that this idea of “habitat” has been forming. The difficulties that the project tackles put the focal point to demonstrate that “other” visions are possible thanks to the reflective spaces suggested by visual design and art; and especially define the problem around the new identitarian narratives arose from post-conflict. Supported by qualitative methodology, ethnographically, the project goes deep into the exploration of the multicultural territoriality. First, developing inspection dynamics and documentation of visual and sound perspectives around the socio-cultural speech and then, implementing from visual fields (photographic image) and sound (soundscapes) a contest understanding, of actors and/ or “places”. We wanted to show a territory self-constructed as a defined cultural imaginary.

Highlights

The territory is a non-enclosed space able to disturb and dissolve the limits themselves of something that we understand as a map
Through the agoras the social speech construction standpoints are explored, from the visual and sound, and around the different ideas about the definition of cultural territory might come to develop on the Colombian scene in the last years
From a hybrid methodological practice, from ethnography and visualsound cartography, we believe that the appearance of social speech, nowadays, belongs to an interrelational dialogue in which different “voices”, conflicting emotions and diverse experiences hatch their proposals in a univocal way

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Introduction

The territory is a non-enclosed space able to disturb and dissolve the limits themselves of something that we understand as a map. In this sense, through the agoras the social speech construction standpoints are explored, from the visual and sound, and around the different ideas about the definition of cultural territory might come to develop on the Colombian scene in the last years. The project is articulated around a designed problem as a scene of new interpretations of social imaginary, and it is here, concerning the idea of building social dialogue: agreed, diverse and tolerant, in which the exploration of the cultural territory that we propose, has a place

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