Where oblivion dwells: artistic-narrative research. Stories in intermediate spaces

Abstract

This article presents the artistic-narrative research project “Art-Nature-Context-Identity”, conducted as part of a teacher training process within the course of Elementary Education Degree. In order to complete this project, I use the students’ artistic experiences as well as their thoughts along the process. The text is then constructed as a dialogue in different times and with different actors. The students’ voices interweave with my own speech to compose a polyphonic and live mural. Similarly, I briefly present the major theoretical approaches and methodological premises with which I structure my teaching and my research (they make the proposals’ theoretical substrate), to finally conclude that, like contemporary art, projects are narratives with no beginning and no end; they are life passages —intermediate spaces—, a similar process to life itself, that are continuously changing and being. Their value lies in being able to modify the way of experiencing contemporary art and, therefore, the art education of whoever participates in them.