Memoria de Conferencia: Nosotros, los huérfanos del yo

We, the Orphans of the Self is an art research
project developed within the Seminar Research
in the Arts ―a fourth year class in the Visual Arts
program at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
in Bogota, Colombia. Guided by the questions:
How does an artist write? And what kind of
writing do images request? and using writing as
it were an art material, students and professors
worked together on what could be understood as
disciplinary writing in the arts. Always taking
into account the epistemological implications
that are at stake between images and words, each
student developed its own writing reflecting on
what is a reader, what is authority, and how to
use words beyond the explanatory mechanism.
This project was developed during the student
protests in 2019-21, a context that was not ignored.
Thus, this project not only works on research
methodologies, but through an intergenerational
dialogue between professors, and students
that tries to understand the subject/bodies
that investigate and their place in the world.
The product of this art research project was a
curatorship of 24 texts developed by students in
which an artistic thought put images and words
in an overflowing and unstable relationship.
This project was awarded a grant for publication
at Javeriana University. This conference takes
disciplinary writing, situated research and
pedagogy as a place of generational dialogue as
the pillars of this project.