Literacidades traficantes: Indagación fenomenológica y auto-etnográfica alrededor de la práctica artística en los procesos cognitivos de creación del conocimiento. Estudio de caso

Abstract

This article is proposed as a study of a technical learning process between disciplinary fields of knowledge (art and anthropology) and their forms of understanding and writing. In this way, interrelating graphic art (xylography), visual anthropology and virtual reality, concrete and detailed ethnographic data were collected under an immersive narrative (VR documentary), with an autoethnographic methodology. On this anthropological basis, we inquired around what is called “trafficked literacies” (Elhaik, Marcus, Andrade, 2007- 2015; Cassanny, 2013), to understand the processes under which the “gazes in transit” of the emancipated reader or spectator subjects (Ranciere, 2011) are constituted during the process of learning a craft (graphics/anthropology), rather than a technique (woodcutting). The objective was to explore the logics in which what I call the “trafficked reader” is shaped. What new literacies are we facing when creating and consuming knowledge in the so-called “digital humanities”? What aspects constitute the construction of literacies in the creation, reading and consumption of a contemporary artistic practice? How is the reading subject constituted in this contemporaneity?