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This study explores the ways in which different actors in the cultural ecosystem mobilize,
negotiate, create, activate and accelerate cultural policies and politics of life through their
processes and practices, focusing mainly on actors from the city of Medellín, Colombia. A
proposal that has as one of its most distinctive characteristics the fact that it was conceived from
local notions, thoughts, and forms – the embodied standpoints. The analysis is based on
positions, concepts, and theories that are developed within the framework of the Americas of
the South: Central America, South America, and the Caribbean; and looks into specific
contributions of the neighborhoods and corners of Medellín. This study brings together the main
aspects of actor’s relationship tactics and approaches in the cultural sector. It considers their
achievements, tensions, mistakes, fears, creations, and desires under the proposed tool and
notion of movimiento (movement) as the interplay of subjectivities and ways of relating and a
versatile maneuver itself. It argues that the multiple actors and groups participating in the arts
and culture ecosystem are formulators, accelerators, transgressors, and disruptors of cultural
policies in the city; and in consequence, policies strengthen and challenge actors’ processes and
projects. The study pushes for considerations on the possibilities around the many ways of being
and relating, thinking-doing through collective creation and movement.