Meeting and dealing with others. Art as a transcultural languag

Transcultural language, which both enables the dialogue between all cultures and prevents their homogenization, is one of the major aspects of transdisciplinary research (Basarab Nicolescu, Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, 2002). Our contribution will focus a question we think is key, concerning the discussion of how to communicate with the other, when the other is different from us, if not when he is our antagonist: the relevance of sharing accurate knowledge about each other, establishing what Basarab Nicolescu calls translanguage: a language aiming to be transcultural. Starting by the assumption that translanguage seeks to annulate or at least to mitigate the Babel effect caused by the fragmentation of cultures, our paper will focus the characteristics of adaptability, transversality, authenticity, and universality translanguage must present, with the purpose of showing that translanguage is, in the end, the language of art. Of course, art can be found in every aspect of human activity that is led by creative factors, for as Joseph Beuys used to reiterate Creativity = Capital. But it is also relevant to notice that this open concept of art – more than just allowing the pulverization of artistic currents that curiously today seems to echo the pulverizations of scientific disciplines – it seeks to reject the great narratives (Lyotard, 1979), so that bridges of silence may be built among the cultures, in order to become places for the emergence of new comprehensive and shared meanings. If the Ukraine effect has been leading us to an increasingly militarized tension, if not to the spread of real martial confront, it is no less true that such threads provoke massive displacement and encounter of many distinct peoples, thus creating the opportunity for new and unexpected – but also meaningful and creative – synthesis to appear. In fact, that is the process revealed by the way art evolves.