CraftCabanyal Project: participatory craftivism actions in the construction of claiming artistic works from the iconography of a place

Abstract

From the dialogue between art and handicrafts, we observed an increase in artistic actions through collaborative processes based on the motto «Do it yourself», thus creating artistic actions by Craftvismo, a movement that starts from the intersection between artisanal and activism. A new way of relating to the public space emerges, enhancing political activism through new strategies for artistic production, converting creation into a social action, integrating diverse people who live in a determined context. We will address some collaborative artistic actions and specifically, we present the collaborative artistic project CraftCabanyal, carried out in the city of Valencia, Spain.