Auras in(e)videntes: repensar el arte tradicional desde imaginarios sin contaminación visual

This text seeks to expand new apprehension of meaning in traditional artwork, beyond its visual perception and comprehension. The burden of tradition that emblematic artwork carries has an influence on its aura, a term used by Walter Benjamin in his influential 1936 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; which is experienced when witnessing an art piece mainly through visual sense. However, the problem discussed in this text is based on the fact that most of the information that we use to construct a shared imaginary of traditional artwork comes in large part from our interaction with media, and that does not include only visual information. Therefore, it is intended to rethink the meaning of traditional art pieces by including the conception of minorities, such as people who were born blind; considering that they maintain an uncontaminated imaginary, that is, not exposed to a social visual language. First, we will expand on the conception of art as unclosed subjective production, in which its meaning stays constantly open to reinterpretation, and is in constant transformation, creating different paths in our social imaginary. The previous conception helps us to open the analysis to new possibilities in the imaginary of traditional artwork, specifically in this case to the way blind people may conceive it. After a theoretic approach, information of the proposal will be presented in the form of an interview. Finally, theoretical resolutions is suggested to generate future reflections on the subject.