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nial times), we find ourselves with the need to construct
a different discourse based on disciplines that have not
yet been incorporated into mainstream discussions in
order to create new epistemes.
For someone entrapped in mainstream's art discourse
it could be difficult to envision how to construct this
alternative view, because it entails the ability to think
from and within the margins while at the same time
integrating knowledge from advanced fields of linguis-
tics, semiotics, ethnology, anthropology, sociology or
post-structural psychology instead of the traditional for-
malist field of art history or other immanentist forms
of western philosophy and aesthetics. Dialogic and not
dialectic discussions would then turn towards issues
centered around how we co-actively construct the
Other, in non-deterministic multidirectional field of
social interaction or how we can present and represent
the "Other" using contemporary institutions as a pas-
sage and not as a Lacanian horizon of egocentric
(artist's) desire.
Thus, in the face of real social and cultural problems
some Latin American artists and thinkers acting from
the margins of "indis-cipline" are offering viable solu-
tions beyond those offered by encapsulated formal dis-
ciplines that have exacerbated their limits in their own
attempts to define and refine their positions of power.
Artists are asking pertinent questions about the pur-
pose of art in a society that since the beginning of the
twentieth century, is signaling the need to face its frag-
mentation and deep crisis of representation. Thus from
Latin America these artists are gathering dispersed
energies in a promising transdisciplinary communal
effort and they are extending an open invitation to their
northern counterparts to join in an invigorating
postcolonial visionary project embracing both
Americas.6
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