Manuela Salazar

// Philosopher, singer, songwriter

Manuela is a philosopher and singer-songwriter from Antioquia. She currently lives in La Ceja and teaches piano and music to children. Her passion revolves around composition, whether musical or literary, as she considers it the meeting point between the different languages and disciplines that shape her interests and ways of feeling the world. Manuela believes that both writing stories and songs respond to the same vital impulse to tell stories and that storytelling is, in turn, a bridge between art and philosophy that enables new ways of experiencing and shaping everyday life.

Residencia El Boga: her project at El Boga will focus on literary creation as a form of philosophical research into everyday life. A philosophical investigation of everyday life would seek to explore the relationship between the aesthetic aspects of a place and the way of experiencing time, forging certain habits or shaping relationships. The project seeks to question how the material specificity of certain objects, streets, geographical features, linguistic expressions, etc., affects the emotional and affective landscape that is capable of giving deep meaning to what we call routine. The theme of literary creation will also focus on the question of failed relationships and non-correspondence in its multiple senses (ethical, epistemological, affective), and will seek these failed relationships precisely in the routine or the banal: objects that we no longer use but keep without knowing why, objects we have lost or, conversely, on which we have become dependent, the sound of a bird we always hear but never see, the dog that frightens us, the smile of someone passing by, etc. Ultimately, the project seeks to focus on the small and neglected aspects of life, bringing them to light through stories that allow us to imagine, reinterpret and amplify everyday life.

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@manuelasalazar.08