Vol. 18 No. 1 (2023): Art in Rurality and Rural Aesthetic Practices in Latin America
Reflecting on aesthetic production, art, music and the performing arts from the point of view of rurality encourages us to reconnect with the intrinsic poetics of inhabiting a territory, walking through it, navigating it, singing about it, sowing it, fighting for it, and caring for it. It has been a long-winded task to think again about life through seeds, and this farmer’s lesson is essential to imagine new possible worlds. The countryside is all living memory that contains the fight for life in a complete sense, existence through food and water that, at the same time, reveals the tension for dueñitud (ownership),[1] a term proposed by Rita Segato, who encourages us to think about it as the opposite of land sovereignty, structural inequality, and the economic system, which insists on building policies that fail to protect life.
[1] Segato, Rita. Contra-pedagogías de la crueldad. - la ed. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2018.
