{"id":1003,"date":"2021-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/concomitentes.vl22350.dinaserver.com\/legitimar-proceso-de-creacion-participativa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:52:28","slug":"legitimising-the-participatory-creation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/en\/legitimar-proceso-de-creacion-participativa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to legitimise the participatory creation process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Participatory processes, which bring voices together, generate encounters in social environments and give responses to collective problems<\/strong> are a challenge in themselves. The dynamic of mediation that Concomitentes works with proposes an artistic intervention in a social context, thus seeking an interaction between art and society<\/strong>, to connect the potential of artistic creation and freedom with the wishes and desires of the environment in which they develop.<\/p>\n

On this path, an arduous process full of doubts, the question arises: How can the decision to carry out an artistic intervention be legitimised?<\/strong> Interventions in public space usually arise as a result of a political decision. There is a legal legitimacy there, democratic processes delegate this power to the political power. The question is whether the political power, in addition to that legal authority, the power, has auctoritas, <\/em>a moral authority that is based on the social recognition that underpins their decision-making.<\/p>\n

Thus, in many cases, a prestigious artist is chosen, as it is considered that his or her career or intellectual capacity provides legitimacy. This would be a classic and legal version, but it has its allegations. The first is whether the political decision-maker has the capacity to make such a decision, How is it sustained? <\/strong>In order to dispel the doubt, a technical commission is usually created which, thanks to its expert knowledge and professional criteria, proposes a solution that is then validated by the political representative. Thus, we begin to broaden the decision-making framework; it is no longer just the politician, but now it is a small but broader group of experts.<\/p>\n

Here, again, the question arises. In a demanding society, with democratic quality and critical awareness, a basic question arises as to whether such intervention in the public space is necessary, i.e. does it respond to a social need or to a citizen's desire?<\/strong> Or, on the contrary, it only contributes to the greater glory of the politician or the artist. This basic doubt demonstrates the need to delve into an initial desire that emerges from the social sphere, a primordial demand that drives the whole process.<\/p>\n

When contemporary art calls for attention to be paid to the process, and not only to the result, it is because of this question. The process gives greater legitimacy to the results, how it opens up decision-making or how it subjects the devolution exercise to community debate. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n \u00abArt is a place for experimentation and for the exploration of devices with which to widen the possibility of listening\u00bb.\u00bb <\/p>\n