Pain and beauty: Perspectives from the expressive arts

Going into the poetics of six experiences different but complementary, six research processes, six images, six voices different artistic languages, diverse contexts, dissimilar psyches. Each author and their own themes their particular style their most intimate impulses creations and self-reflections six essays written to inspire rather than instruct. The dance begins between the expressive arts and the peruvian imaginary... ancient labyrinths, individual and social, invoke the tinkuy of the andean cosmovision through the body the poetry continues, self-reflection blossoms between mystery and the streets, conversing with the historical past in an attempt to decipher it from the far shore. The painting proceeds in two time frames... through interruption of the flow, the decomposition and dissolution of the self’s gaze... falling, shattering, travelling through the quest, individual and collective, for new images and life cycles the dance returns, aided by video, once again there is the painful cement jungle and the exit from its backstreets yet to be stitched... psyche under reconstruction: women at work language returns to the violent landscape, scraps of bewilderment and sorrow, hidden beauty of contamination, strident music, deformed words and sounds between the city and the sea with-a-certain-un-certain-ty from the body of one to the body of all to make of pain a dance of deformation, vitality of mystery, poetry of contamination, beauty of interruption, a new cycle of painful blows, an encounter lose control fall without answers with one last piece ever to be sought out Read more