The field of urban art and its social function in education, a case study, in the collective “Toy nunca pego”, in Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo

Abstract

Urban art is considered as a way in which society is represented, since it has developed different social functions, at times, by the recognition of the members of the collective, by sharing and reproducing a system of meanings that have allowed to configure an artistic position alternates with the academic practice that develops within the social structure in the terms of the "institutional".

The social functions of the urban art respond to the need of its members to claim their social position, returning to the concept of "Field", in the terms of Pierre Bourdieu, urban art responds to a type of "field", to be considered a space of power (Bourdieu, 1983), it should be mentioned that the functions are marked transgressors to public order by representing a stigmatized social group and therefore, excluded from the "institutional".  Finally, a possible social function is proposed, which is taken from the Critical Pedagogy, taking urban art as a field of power in which a social stigma is assimilated, however, that by its social and probably educational reproduction, can be included as a type of "institutional" formal knowledge framework, related to an integral artistic education.

The analysis is developed, in the collective Toy Nunca Pego, the information gathered represented an important part for being a collective recognized by the transcendence of the works of its members, when performing a reconstruction of human practices that institutional education often ignores, enabling the categorization of the urban artistic movement as a field of power.