<p>Aim of this paper is to examine how artistic research based on the romanticised imagination of Otherness through postcolonial perspective can create new conceptualisation of the space and the participative practice of Latin American and European artists. This paper is focus on artistic research and workshop Grand Tour organised in Coordinación Académica en Arte, in San Luis Potosí, December 2022 and run by Croatian artists Josip Zanki and Ivan Fijolic together with the Mexican artist Leonardo Martínez and Adriana Rodríguez with participation of Croatian and Mexican students. Starting reference of the artistic research and workshop is tradition of Grand Tour, late 18th and 19th century Nobile youth travel from Great Britain to Continental Europe; Italy, Greece and Egypt. Origin of this travel was colonial idea these destinations represent the origin and base of ‘Western’ culture and arts. Artistic research and workshop focused on the subliminal heritage of Grand Tour, imagination and representation of the ancient Mexican pyramids and shrines through the European lens; and the perception of European culture through the Latin American lens. The artistic research was based on lectures and field work, and workshop on presentations and participatory art work in various media and artistic poetics. Research was developed in two lines, both focused on space conceptualisation; first on romantic representation of Zapatist Rebellion in San Luis Potosí public monuments, and second on artistic practice based re-humanisation and social interventions in the city dangerous neighbourhood Arbolitos. This paper is focused on Tim Ingold’s concepts of landscape as a place where forms of culture are encoded, landscape as a culturalized space, and the world in its being presented in the form of a landscape. In San Luis Potosí cultualized spaces, Zapatist public monuments and Arbolitos represent postcolonial structure and precarious forms of human existence.</p>
