Synnyt / Origins | 1 / 2017 11 Aventar historias An artistic action from the collective memory of a community engaging in an a/r/tographic perspective María Martínez Morales, PhD Fine Arts University of Jaén, Spain Abstract With Aventar historias I present a collaborative artistic action as a method of a/r/tograph- ic inquiry. Within this article I research ways of representing the collective memory of a community that lives in a particular place. Therefore, I present this action as artistic research based on the stories collected with the intention of reviving the place from the memories of the community. The action originates from a neighborhood that is interested in recovering a space called “era,” a social place of meeting and celebration in the past. This action is designed from collaborative work created by the members of a community who participated in the intervention. For this, I show the investigation based on the artistic action focused in the body as narrative, a key to investigating the performative experience from an a/r/tographic perspective in order to link what is said with how it is said. Finally, I show the visual essay as a refection of the collaborative artistic action in the last paragraph. Keywords: memory, community, a/r/tography, collaborative artistic action Bio María Martínez Morales earned her PhD in Art Education in 2015 from the University of Jaén, Spain. Her research pertains to the area of Musical, Plastic, and Body Expression Didactics. She is a member of the research group PAI Hum 862- “Studies in Society, Arts and Cultural Affair,” where she investigates artistic action as a collective cultural practice from an a/r/tographic perspective in the feld of collaborative artistic practices. Some of these efforts include The body as narrative, University of Lisbon (2015); Interwoven lives. Body, memory, and place. University of Porto, “Walking ...” How to Write and Defend an Artistic Thesis? Society for Artistic Research (SAR) in The Netherlands (2016), etc.