Challenges, Paradoxes and Tensions in Artistic Cooperation In (and Between) Europe and Latin America: Some Reflections and Guidelines

Abstract

Cooperation projects are cardinal in the development of artistic peripheries in general—and, in particular, the artistic peripheries in which live performance primarily operates. The sense of encounter that accompanies cooperation is a little explored field that resituates the limits and ultimate meaning of who we are as artists and social beings. This contribution uses these ideas as a baseline to review challenges, paradoxes and tensions as principles that characterize—or can underpin—artistic cooperation between close and, at the same time, distant contexts, as is the case of Europe and Latin America. This paper proposes a series of guidelines, based on Jung’s Analytical Psychology, to take into account when undertaking artistic cooperation, which may be seen as a stage for human beings confronted with their own complexity as individuals.