This article sets out to approach spirituality as cultural substratum in the enclave of the Arantzazu Sanctuary (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country) through the counterintuitive notion of infrastructure. Through four vastly different scenes, it aims to illustrate how Arantzazu, as an ecosystem, infrastructures spirituality, exploring this from a historical perspective, as well as looking to its social deployment. In the first scene, the apparition of the Virgin is the precipitating event that enrols an initial group of actors to her flanks. This inaugural event was followed by three others, in which spirituality was to be articulated in different but equally effective ways: the development, in the 1960s, of a laboratory for the production of language and community; the renovation of the basilica and the processes of emptying entailed in the realization of sculptor Jorge Oteiza’s project; and finally, the international mountain marathon Aizkorri-Zegama that takes place in the vicinity of the sanctuary.
This article addresses some of the interpretations that have consolidated the cultural- symbolic-cultural imaginary of the Basque farmhouse, and then broadens the form of approaching the narrative of its identity. From the notion of prototype to that of infrastructure, from anthropological object to artistic object, the Basque farmhouse is conceived as a framework, with an axis open to unfoldings that go beyond the reproduction of its essential image. Concepts related to mediations, performativity and cartography make it possible to track the operativity of this framework, in a process that interweaves different fields of research and controversies that can lead into forms of transdisciplinary, post-qualitative study and cultural innovation.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.