Re-tracement practices: pirate art, the political and other cities
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The proposal that will be followed here under the term re-tracing practices will try to assume Jean-Luc Nancy’s theses that suggest a departure from all traditional politics, from the political understood as the ultimate foundation. What will be attempted to do, will be to integrate Nancy’s approach to the political, and her writings on the city, with the recognition of concrete practices that also assume the political as something alive and not conditioned by last foundations. In this way, art can be defined as practices in which these two forms converge, and so it can be said that the artistic practices –margins, those of the peripheries, which often occur in silence and parallel to the legitimating institution– are concrete practices that interrupt, re-trace and produce another city.