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Spatial Dialogues: A Performative Installation of Architecture, the Body, and Everyday Life in Public Space

No. 42 (2025-05-30)
  • Edgar Guzmanruiz
    Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq42.2025.06

Abstract

This article presents reflections and findings on the work processes involved in the performative installation Diálogos espaciales, situated in public space. It explores and reveals aspects of the reciprocal influence between architecture and the human body, shedding light on the connections between space, emotion, and behavior through activations. According to the results, these connections—which depend on empathy between performers and the audience, activated through emotional and procedural memory—ultimately engage episodic memory. The research-creation methodology in art combines the analysis of theoretical references, the study of similar creative works, and performative experimentation based on the notation of transcultural human actions.

Keywords: art and architecture, public space art, installation, performance, space, body, behavior, emotion, memory

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