Ser y estar en lo urbano. Un acercamiento espacio-temporal al tatuaje

The following article proposes a spatio-temporal view of tattooing that allows us to recognize in it a form of urbanity: daily habits, ways of thinking and interacting. The proposal consists of understanding this urbanity in changing and globalized spaces through the tattoo and its mobile character, understanding that the tattoo is a link to be and to be in the urban space. Based on an ethnographic-artistic methodology, which emphasizes the interactions, transits and contexts of the subjects, we propose three temporalities of tattooing: the rite (the moment of tattooing and its significance), the rhythm (the everydayness of the tattooed body) and the cycle of life (the long time the ink remains on the skin). At the same time, we explored the spatialities of the tattooed body and its transit in the city. As a result of this analysis, we conclude that revealing the mobility of bodies and their marks makes it possible to broaden the view of the urban towards a diversity of perceptions of the environment, and to integrate the somatic and corporeal into the social experience of the city.