Abstract

COVELLI MEEK, GIOVANNI  and  RUSSO, GIADA ANDREINA. THE AGORA INTENDED AS A SPACE TO RESTORE THE SOCIAL FABRIC FOR PEACE: ARGENTINIAN COMMUNITY THEATRE CASE. Pensam. palabra obra [online]. 2019, n.22, pp.8-21.  Epub Mar 26, 2020. ISSN 2011-804X.

This article of reflection derived from research, in the first part, addresses the origins and perspectives of the community theater, a phenomenon that is evidenced when settling in Argentina more than 40 years later of violence, where all the political, social and economic problems that the conflict brings, the repercussions of uprooting remain in the community. In that context, community theatre is established, starting from the idea of theatre as a place of recognition, for redefining the real experience and reconstructing a new collective identity, by proposing a communication, based on the relationship between memory and body. Later, understanding citizen involvement as a political bet from and for the population, and after a resume about the context of the conflict in Colombia, the appropriation of the space is proposed from the concept of the agora, through the free symbolic manifestation of artistic expressions by the community, in order to make Colombians participate in a generation of new discourses and actions built collectively, which determine the reconstruction of a social fabric for peace, giving a new significance to history through artistic language, that constitutes actions of the present for the future.

Keywords : Community development; performing arts; political violence in art; social memory; Latin America.

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