Afluir Journal

Olive Grove, Body, Identity, and Territory: A Contemporary Artistic Investigation from a Gender Perspective on Olive Oil Culture in Jaén, Spain.

2025-09-24T08:16:17+00:00

This article presents an artistic research project conducted in the province of Jaén, focusing on olive oil culture and its impact on women's lives from a gender perspective. Thanks to funding from the Institute of Giennese Studies, an audiovisual and graphic work has been produced, documenting the relationship between territorial identity and the female body in the context of the olive grove. The study explores how women have been key players in the olive economy, also addressing changes in family and labor dynamics, and their cultural impact.

Artist's book and a/r/tography: an experience in Cazalilla's retirement home.

2025-09-24T08:16:09+00:00

This article describes an artistic practice through a/r/tography and artist's book, developed in the residence for elderly in Cazalilla (Jaén, Spain). The project involves 10 users of the residence, as well as the centre's staff.

Active participation in artistic practices has a positive impact on the quality of life of the elderly. This participation not only involves residents in the creative process, but also strengthens their social ties and significantly improves their mental health. By providing a space to explore and express their creativity, they are given the opportunity to re-discover skills and talents, contributing significantly to their self-esteem and general well-being.

A/r/tography, with the context of arts-based research, brings together the characteristics in human and social science research, and the distinctive qualities of artistic creation. Artistic projects within the senior center can contribute to improvement self-esteem and connection with their environment and peers. The three methodological and professional dimensions of a/r/tography, art, research and education, and the proposed space for artistic action, create a perfect environment to work on creativity with the elderly at the Cazalilla residence, through the artist's book.

Una mirada hacia los intersticios del espacio cotidiano. La deriva como proceso de producción fotográfica

2025-09-22T07:45:40+00:00

This article explores the interstices that are generated in everyday spaces and is the result of a research-creation process that is articulated with the theory of drift and walking as processes for artistic creation. It is an artistic exploration that offers the opportunity to understand the environment through a meditative and reflective exercise. This process is influenced by everyday space, it is intertwined with the action of walking, it arises as a result of the drift and the link with the interstices, connecting with the experience that enables the creation of a symbolic landscape through a series of photographs.

Virtual environments as a mechanism for learning citizen competencies through the school coexistence manual

2025-09-24T08:16:25+00:00

Coexistence in school environments is essential for the comprehensive development of students, since it fosters an environment of respect and collaboration; The objective of this project is to strengthen the citizenship skills of seventh grade students at the El Porvenir Municipal Council Educational Institution of Rionegro Antioquia, through gamification strategies that integrate the school coexistence manual. The methodology used is qualitative, with an action research approach, using techniques such as observation, interviews and surveys to obtain significant data, the results facilitated the identification of elements that encourage or hinder the appropriation of these standards, highlighting their crucial role as tools. of social transformation and human development in the educational community.

Image-creating looking machines. The artist and the artifact: a synesthesia

2025-09-24T08:16:32+00:00

It’s not possible to trust what the eyes see. This is happening now, and in the same way it happened in the past. If we seek the moment that images converted the world into an indeterminacy between reality and appearance, we can find it in the XVII century. The present work analyzes the existing link in the construction of images produced by the artifact between that era of optical exaltation and the current one. The suspicion of this hidden link is confirmed by a good number of contemporary artists by making use of those formulas used in the past, and applying them in their current work. These artists have revealed that every historical moment promoted a scientific medium, a procedure in the artifice, and that this was increasing new realistic mirages to situate us in that dichotomy between optical illusion and truth.

The bedoom: An Arts-Based Educational Research on the Student's Living Space

2025-09-24T08:16:48+00:00

This article analyzes the use of panoramic photography and planimetric drawing as a pedagogical tool through arts-based educational research. The project is based on the visual results created by the students of the Faculty of Education Sciences. A series of artistic actions were proposed that allow people to reflect on the uses of their own intimate space, focusing on the room as a creative and constructive starting point. These actions are based on artistic references that served as a guide in the construction of an aesthetic discourse. These images created by the students reflect their daily experiences, allowing them to explore and express their vital contexts visually, as well as reflect on the time they spend in that space, how it is configured and what circumstances occur within the privacy of the home. The results allow us to glimpse routine, chromatic, and formal patterns, being presented through a set of visual recreations built by the researchers to create a collective and significant visual approximation of the student's space.

Social organization contemporary dance field in the provincial interior of Argentina. Elitization and democratization of the middle-class art.

2025-09-24T08:16:40+00:00

Within the framework of Social Studies of Art and Dance Studies, in this paper we trace the social organization of contemporary dance in the Paravachasca Valley (province of Córdoba, Argentina), based on a collaborative ethnography carried out in the period 2018-2022. We focus on class ascription as a descriptive category and emerging analytical key. First, we characterize this art in the studied region, identifying that the people who perform it self-ascribe to the middle and upper-middle class. Second, we analyze the native distinction of contemporary dance as an elite and non-popular dance. Thirdly, we construct two hypotheses of interpretation to investigate and make understandable the current elitization of this art, on the one hand, a restricted accessibility constructed by cultural policies and, on the other hand, its historical-geographical and socio-semiotic foreignness. We thus postulate a tension between a process of democratization and a process of eliticization of contemporary dance in the region under study.

Neuropsychology in Dance: Motor skills, emotion, memory, intelligence and creativity for communication

2025-09-22T07:45:32+00:00

Applying neuropsychology to dance is recognizing the progress in brain studies to clarify the human cognitive functions involved in the dance process. This motor practice contributes to the processes of personal, cognitive, physical development, emotional well-being, social relationships, and manifestation of evolutionary movement patterns to achieve an artistic work. Therefore, the objective is to carry out a systematic search in the academic literature that allows the presentation of the most recent references on movement, emotion, memory, intelligence and creativity to strengthen the importance of dance as a tool for personal construction in the process of human communication. It is found that dance contributes to the development of the neuropsychological skills studied and transcends the process of personal training for communication.