El caso Llibreria Sant Jordi. Del ojo paciente a la autoconsciencia comunitaria

This article analyses the artistic project Afectos y Resistentes. In its development, artistic research has been combined with qualitative methodologies and participatory ethnography. The artistic production is an audiovisual and transmedia archive-laboratory, expanded in the social context and digital media. The project unfolds diverse visual narratives about small stories of resilience, based on vital experiences of grassroots culture, considered as case studies. The Llibreria Sant Jordi case is articulated as a "collection" of microcapsules in the form of visual essays generated through patient listening processes and dialogic conversations with the protagonists and their context. The narrative threads are structured through dialogues. The themes of situations of discomfort derived from the globalised, neoliberal and diversity-exterminating context are addressed, as well as the tactical responses of resistance activated by those affected and the communities of affection that are created in these processes. Precarious stories articulated through minimal audiovisual resources, critical uses of media and narrative strategies. The patient experience of the process of this project is in turn a process of critical resilience in itself, which makes it possible for shared and transformative learning to emerge from the agents involved, providing mutual enrichment and greater self-awareness of their identities and potential.