Ethos of the participation in the work of Juneval Ravelo

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate how to form a space for the common good from a creative proposal. This is not an aesthetic field formalized by the social validity of the representation, but by the statement of ethical practice. On the basis of categories such as the meaning of life and moral values, willpower, and selective recreation, I am going to review the work of Venezuelan artist Juvenal Ravelo and his proposal of Art of Participation in the street. The theoretical basis for such a review will focus on The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand, the concept “umfunktionieren” worked by Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin, as well as the construction of the dialogic principle in literary creation and in human speech in Mikhail Bakhtin's work.