Transit of identities: life history of Erika Kuhn, visual artist

Abstract

This paper has been designed from the life history of the visual artist Erika Kuhn as a resource to observe the transit of identities in times of liquid currencies and telematics societies, to show that the identities of those going through a visual artist is the need to reaffirm their existence in times of uncertainty. Life Story is an alternative to the crisis of metanarratives that Lyotard poses in the postmodern condition, in the sense that the birth narratives lived and experiential world of visual artist and not as suggested by the Enlightenment or scientism.

The sense of being reflects the lived world, the everyday world and the social world of the visual artist, social commitment is a reflection of the perspective of Joseph Beuys (Morgan, 2003: 109). The exchanges and negotiations Erika Kuhn performed through technological channels break with the approach of telematics societies, as in these, there are remnants of trust and respect not agreed (Georg Simmel, 1900). The subjective experiences of the visual artist, you can grasp cognitive processes that denature the daily practices and enable the presence of the Other.

Phenomenology explains the attitudes and the relationship with the other, human actions in time, space and physicality (Husserl 1998), and the theory of the everyday rescues the meanings of the identity of the artist in the art of making (Certeau, 1996).