Emotional-Narrative Genealogy: The Assessment of Autobiography in Aesthetic Expression through Self-Story. School Workshop

Abstract

Art and research in their elaboration processes and practices at the service of community education have been the object of this study. To know the value of aesthetic practice in the cultivators of various arts, crafts, scenic studies and material and intangible cultural manifestations of a training collective called the magical kanelo workshop school. Itinerant training space in trades that from the theater of animated forms, in the province of Talagante, located west of Santiago de Chile, has been working for 22 years in these personal and collective experiences. The aim was to establish, from emotional memory, a genealogical mapping, understood here as significant experiences and discourses that were the expression of these factors, which, in many cases, are decisive in the choice of artistic careers or in the expression of individuals through the practice of certain activities related to art and culture. A fact that is totally immaterial in many ways and that acts as a complement to academic training or the development of the applied profession itself. An element that has relevance for the understanding and formulation of didactics for formal and community artistic education of individuals and human collectives. It is realized that not enough studies were found in this interpretative framework, thus generating the motivation to carry out the present research that aimed to describe, interpret and co-formulate tools for understanding and analyzing of aesthetic expressions from what individuals themselves self-narrate.

             The study was carried out over the course of the years 2018 to 2023. In this sense, the instruments designed and applied were triangulated, accounting for how the valuation of emotional-creative memory, contained in genealogical mapping, is related to the greater or lesser development of aesthetic expressions and activities of human creation in the arts and culture. Interviews and qualitative instruments were developed, which made it possible to describe and interpret what was "self-narrated" by the participating subjects of the workshop school in which the research was centered. The main conclusions are raised in the need to value with greater magnitude the family ties, mainly of women, mothers, grandmothers and then of fathers and others in the motivating sources for the development in early childhood of the arts and their subsequent development in adult life as a trade or profession. Also of the territorial instances as elements of development or not of the arts in their formative plane and of promotion in their material production, territoriality seen, moreover, as a collective imaginary linked to local and family cultural expressions of traditions and trades practiced. Finally, in this sense, it is worth highlighting as a finding, the need to investigate the relevance of artistic languages as a didactic strategy in non-formal education in the arts and human communities, since these practices and didactics in urban-rural territories are of vital importance for the better training of creators from the valuation of the local, since they constitute a triggering element in the paths of the training of children and young people in the arts and culture.