From project to artwork: the production of knowledge in the field of contemporary esthetic-artistic practices

The ruptures experienced in the field of visual arts and humanities since the last decade of the twentieth century have directly influenced the ways in which artwork is produced in these areas. On the one hand, artists and creators have been encouraged to incorporate into their practices, methodologies from social sciences and other disciplines, to address the realities that determine them. On the other hand, social researchers have found in expressive processes and in symbolic representations, fundamental devices to problematize their objects of study and regard for realities that escape single textuality. In this exchange of experiences, knowledge and methods, the notion of Research-creation has taken shape, from leads that achieve legitimacy, either in training spaces or in properly creative scenarios, in which inter and transdisciplinarity are convened. The reflection that we propose, takes up the contributions and conceptual approaches of authors such as Borgdorf, Ranciere, Sennet, Nancy, among others, in addition to the own experience derived from the Master in Esthetics and Creation from UTP in order to problematize the exchanges that take place in the research-creation processes, From the updating of two notions anchored to the tradition, both formal research and artistic creation: the notions of project and artwork. In the same perspective, it problematizes two areas of experimentation and creation, entrenched in the processes of production of meaning in these fields: the workshop and the laboratory. The approaches developed are derived from the project: "Research-creation: Tensions and appropriations in the projection of contemporary esthetic and artistic practices", developed by professors Aura Margarita Calle y Felipe Martinez from the Department of Humanities of the Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Colombia.