The use of the image and the contributions of Walter Benjamin in Santa Fe cultural spaces: the case of El Molino, Fabrica Cultural

el caso del dispositivo «La Gioconda y sus intervenciones» en el El Molino, Fábrica Cultural

Abstract

The Triptych of Imagination is a project of the Department of Culture and Innovation of the province of Santa Fe. It consists of three areas: The Mill, The Light Corner, and The Eave. Each of themhas special characteristics that definetheir aesthetics andtheir pedagogical and artistic proposal. I intend to analyze El Molino, Cultural factory (The Mill). The use of image in this space is essential, because its image completes it and it articulates it with craftsmanship, thus  combining various forms of experiencing art and crafts. El Molino proposes an approach from the society to cultural spaces, as well as a new way of looking  at art, that parts from traditional ideas. I intend to observe these new approaches and looks from my own conceptual articulation, gestated in a subjective experience with space, linking the currents of Visual Studies, mainly Inés Dussel’scontributions, with Walter Benjamin’sproposalon art and  technical  reproducibility. In order to do all this, I will focus particularly on a ludic–pedagogical device of the Molino: «The Gioconda and Its interventions».