Presence – Listen – Presence’ Link of the project: https://balamronan.net/presencia-escucha-presencia/ Today… Due to various factors, such as the overexposure of visual and sound stimuli, such as publicity or transit, we have distanced ourselves from the people around us. The excess of consumerism, of work, of culture as merchandise, among other factors, act as mechanisms that make it difficult to stop along the way, a pause to reflect, look and listen to our surroundings. In a society where competition, exploitation, and the pursuit of the greatest personal benefit, the indifference towards other people has been institutionalized and even normalized in the act / thinking of many people, how can we become indignant, stand up and change things, for the betterment of the common people? Although I do not have conclusive answers, I think it is necessary to stop to talk (us) and listen (us), to give us time to reflect, question, fight and create. I think that listening is a key act for this process of change. Listening is a political and social act, it is a vehicle of communication, dialogue, understanding, and approach to people, an indispensable means of understanding and transforming our realities. Actions I would like to carry out actions that start from the corporal and / or vocal presence in public spaces, to invite people to listen, to listen to each other, and reflect on our ways of inhabiting, experiencing and appropriating public space, to reflect on our contexts, our relationships, our lives. Carry out actions that address the everyday and propose the public space as an area of revival between art, society and politics. Actions that make us think about and with people, in our relationships, in our interdependence. Actions that conceive and propose art as part of the experience of daily life, that help the reappropriation of our lives. I want that through actions we look for ourselves, we distinguish ourselves, we see each other and listen, we reflect in our common contexts and we look for ways to do where we all fit, and we benefit. I think that art is a form of social consciousness, and in that sense, it is an instrument of communication, of knowledge, of exchange of ideas, an instrument of change and transformation. I think that art can affect reality, and even transform it.
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