Potencialidad de la inclusión del arte en el ámbito comunitario como herramienta de transformación social en Argentina

Abstract

This article is about experiences that exist in Argentina in the community area and that we think as part of a scientific field called Art and Transformation field. It is composed by different experiences made by different organizations and organisms, that as a way to achieve social transformation, include art in the community work because they think it´s inclusion has great potential. They work with new conceptions about art, where it is considered at the same time as a way and a gold (not only an instrument to achieve other objectives). They work with different artistic languages (music, circus, visual arts, drama, dance, among others) and, in general, in precarious contexts. It´s a field that is not very studied, but there are some works about it that we will take in consideration in this article. That´s why the objective of this work would be to conceptualize and describe the art and transformation field and some of the characteristics of the work that the experiences that compose the field use. We will take contributions from different disciplines in which we based our investigation: social and cultural anthropology, community psychology, communication, popular education, among others.