IDENTITY PARADIGMS OF MOTOR FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY. ART AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGE

Ave Fenix is a multidisciplinary collective that works with incarcerated women at the Social Reintegration Center ("Centro de Reinsercion Social", or CERESO) in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Throughout 2021 and 2022, we developed a specific project which addresses the body and its affects as groundworks for our explorations. This article presents a reflection upon artistic pedagogical practices as a methodological process, as well as the terms in which collaboration, communality and dialogue can create situated experiences. Taking into account the multidisciplinary nature of the collective (integrating the visual arts, film and psychology), our starting point was the premise that a disobedient and undisciplined epistemology can operate within a framework of horizontality and communality.The paths we traced during the course of this project were directed towards affective and embodied practices, where drawing, painting, performance, photography, writing and body movement served as triggering and transformative processes to resignify life as dignified and autonomous. Our results became discoveries that gave us a glimpse into the possibilities of agency and solidarity, in a space of disciplinary control, creating moments of resistance and re -existence for all the people involved.