Pollinators of the common. The arts of the living and the non-living.

Abstract

A collection of materialities takes the form of seven drawings that make up this creative project, called Polinizadores de lo común (Pollinators of the common), which takes into account the ambiguous idea of the living and the non-living in the arts. A text-sketch that starts from this series of drawings. The nature of this drawn text is to mobilise and sustain a series of questions, of our own and of the common, born from the environment we inhabit and from previous reflections on the conservation or memory of the performing arts in an expanded sense. 

In the task of ruminating -from these assumptions- we are accompanied by the conceptual framework proposed by Silvia L. Gil (on a feminist horizon and where to place hope) and Vinciane Despret (with the ways and manners of spiders and octopuses). Other non-human beings such as monarch butterflies lead us to transit through the cosmological dimensions of culture. The tracing of these migratory routes in the arts and their connections between the living and the dead, beyond binary logic, are part of the interwoven and scrambled reality we inhabit. 

Starting with the fragment, the variation, the mutation or the enigma, this text embraces stories that create worlds, has its traces in writing with the help and in the manner of artistic practice-based research.