Art/theo/logy: theological-arts-based-research
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2019
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University of Winchester
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Martínez Cano, Silvia (2019). “Art/theo/logy. Theological-Arts-based-Research” in Megan Clay (ed.) Enfleshing the inconscious. Feminist Imaginings, Winchester, University of Winchester, pp. 12-37
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La creatividad teológica que explora la realidad con otros lenguajes, propios de nuestro tiempo, nos puede salvar de la historia rota y sufriente, del estatismo del miedo y del vértigo de la inseguridad. El lenguaje visual -las expresiones artísticas en su materialidad- es un medio para un conocimiento teológico que nos conecte verdaderamente con Di*s. Lo es porque los procesos de producción transgreden los límites de lo formal , y se sitúan en caminos no transitados, en espacios de frontera exterior, en contextos abiertos y dialogantes. La experiencia religiosa comparte estas cualidades con el arte: la percepción, la observación, el aprendizaje y la construcción colectiva. Al juntar estas dos experiencias, la estética y la religiosa, se intercambian acontecimientos, causas, atributos, finalidades, para después deconstruir, descartar, ordenar y construir de nuevo, una experiencia religiosa renovada. Desde ahí, desde lo re-constituido, re-formulado, re-imaginado, es posible una acción creativa en el mundo, que lo re-conduzca hacia Di*s.
Visual language -the artistic expressions in their materiality- is a means for a theological knowledge that truly connects us with G*d. This is so since production processes transgress the limits of the "formal", and are located on untrodden roads, in spaces of outer borders, in open and dialoguing contexts. Religious experience shares these qualities with art: perception, observation, learning and collective construction. By bringing together these two experiences, the aesthetic and the religious, events, causes, attributes and purposes are exchanged, and a renewed religious experience is then deconstructed, discarded, ordered and constructed again. From there, from the re-constituted, re-formulated and re-imagined, a creative action in the world is possible, leading it back to G*d.
Visual language -the artistic expressions in their materiality- is a means for a theological knowledge that truly connects us with G*d. This is so since production processes transgress the limits of the "formal", and are located on untrodden roads, in spaces of outer borders, in open and dialoguing contexts. Religious experience shares these qualities with art: perception, observation, learning and collective construction. By bringing together these two experiences, the aesthetic and the religious, events, causes, attributes and purposes are exchanged, and a renewed religious experience is then deconstructed, discarded, ordered and constructed again. From there, from the re-constituted, re-formulated and re-imagined, a creative action in the world is possible, leading it back to G*d.