Cohesion and polychromy in the body of artistic educators: conceptions of the aesthetic body

Abstract

This article is the result of a research project with art education teachers from four educational institutions in the city of Cali, which is framed within body studies and aims to understand the aesthetic body from the conceptions constructed from the aesthetic act of thinking about themselves. Methodologically, the research is located in the qualitative approach, specifically the socio-educational one, where the biographical method was developed under the body maps model, implementing its own data collection techniques. For the analysis and interpretation of the data, grounded theory and data triangulation were used. The article presents part of its findings, specifically the selective category, which breaks down the two conceptions that emerge: cohesion and polychromy; revealing an artist body concerning the participants. It is concluded that, in the context of the research, artistic education is not assumed by teachers who teach arts, but by artist bodies who become teachers, in a social and economic context where it is not possible to live only as artist bodies.