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Constructing the Self Collectively

Ricardo Basbaum

Ulisses Carrilho talks with Ricardo Basbaum about his experiences and what he learned from the project Would you like to participate in an artistic ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Speculating Pacts on the Common

Ana Luiza Braga Juliana M. Streva Lior Zisman Zalis

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MAPPINGS

Atividade Criatividade: A Special Didactics

Anna Bella Geiger

Venue: Online

In the first AUDITORIUM session of the 2023—I Semester, Anna Bella Geiger shares with LA ESCUELA___ some of her teaching experiences at the Escola de ... read more

AUDITORIUM

Claudio Perna: Documentation as Teaching

Claudio Perna Rigel García

Venue: Venezuela

The Pernian praxis is today synonymous with the multidisciplinary, and the development of his vast photographic and conceptualist work was ... read more

ESSAYS

Radical Political Imagination and Anticolonial Pedagogy in Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon danie valencia sepúlveda

Our struggle for the acceleration of the end of the world as we know it will include a programming executed from counter-pedagogical notions. It will ... read more

ESSAYS

Emancipating Ourselves: the Desire to Think Together

Yina Jiménez Suriel

The pedagogical programs of aesthetic thought in the region, conceived and managed by independent organizations, emerge from an intense desire to ... read more

MAPPINGS

The Museum as a Thinking Protocol

Beatriz González Beatriz González Nicolás Paris

Venue: Colombia

Nicolás Paris talks with artist Beatriz González about her involvement with museums as learning devices, the strategies and protocols ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Working the Body and Studying as Forms of Combat

Helio Eichbauer Débora Oelsner Lopes

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ESSAYS

Decolonizing Action: Poetic Pedagogies with Local Implications

Gian Spina

From an interdisciplinary approach that spans film, photography, poetry, and pedagogical projects, Gian Spina (São Paulo, Brazil, 1984) carries out ... read more

PRACTICES

Learning from Action, Emotion and Integration

Oficina de Teatro Pedagógico Paulina Hunt Precht Adriana Castro Hunt

Through a training methodology and experiential theory, the Oficina de Teatro Pedagógico [Pedagogical Theater Office] seeks to contribute to ... read more

PRACTICES

Women, Art and Hierarchy. The Formative References of Artists in Venezuela

Costanza De Rogatis

Venue: Venezuela

Who has forged and shaped the referents (and possibly the canon) of Venezuelan art? [...] We will attempt to map possible indications of the ... read more

MAPPINGS

Repairing, Re-situating and Rethinking What It Means to Be in the World

Sara Garzón Carolina Castro Jorquera

With the aim of fostering research-based and formative projects, Colombian curator and writer Sara Garzón (Bogota, 1988) participated as a ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Helio Eichbauer

(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1941 - 2018): Scenographer. He is known as one of the main renovators of modern Brazilian theater. Trained in stage ... read more

EMERITUS

The Educational Work of Jorge Romero Brest

Jorge Romero Brest Fabiana Serviddio

Venue: Argentina

A career dedicated to the permanent questioning of reality through art as well as to the formation of educators, artists and a critical public, ... read more

ESSAYS

Gabriela Mistral

(Lucila Godoy Alcayaga) (Vicuña, Chile, 1889 – New York, USA, 1957): Poet, diplomat, and educator. She began teaching at a very young age, promoting ... read more

EMERITUS

Building Identity through Cultural Exchange

Prisciliano Jiménez Prisciliano Jiménez Juan Carlos Jiménez

Venue: México

Prisciliano Jiménez is a sculptor, cultural promoter, and businessman. He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Veracruzana. He has been ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Utilizing the Dynamics that Art Unleashes

José Luis Falconi José Luis Falconi Félix Suazo

Venue: Perú

With agile and controversial ideas, curator, writer, artist and professor José Luis Falconi addresses in this interview several issues of high ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

A Precarious Education in the Creative Sense

Cecilia Vicuña

Miguel Braceli talks to Cecilia Vicuña about the artist's pedagogical experiences, her decolonizing take on knowledge, her understanding of feminism ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Education as Deviation from Colonial Ways of Inhabiting the World

Aldones Nino

When thinking about education as a space for the exchange and expansion of perspectives, we must take into account the complexity of issues of ... read more

MAPPINGS

Simón Rodríguez

(Caracas, Venezuela, 1769 - Amotape, Perú, 1854): Educator, thinker, and politician, known as the ‘Master of the Liberator´ Simón Bolívar. However, ... read more

EMERITUS

To Think about the Cosmos Is to Think of Collectiveness

Patricia Domínguez

Patricia Domínguez (Santiago, Chile, 1984) is an artist, educator, and advocate of the living. Her artistic work organically intertwines with ... read more

PRACTICES

School of Listening the IM pulse of the POSSIBLE

Cecilia Vicuña

Venue: Online

For the opening session of the AUDITORIUM, Cecilia Vicuña will share with La Escuela ___ her reflections on the process of decolonizing ... read more

AUDITORIUM

Art, Modernity and Pedagogy

David Alfaro Siqueiros Esteban King Álvarez

The notion of 'public art' understood as a transformative and revolutionary vehicle, at the service of society, is central to understanding his ... read more

ESSAYS

Dissent as a Pedagogical Exercise

Ernesto Rivera

Ernesto Rivera is a Dominican artist based in New York. His work moves through different formats, materials, and techniques; using a fragmentary ... read more

PRACTICES

Roberto Valcárcel

(La Paz, Bolivia, 1951 – 2021): Visual artist, university professor, and lecturer. A pioneer who introduced visual alternatives and contemporary ... read more

EMERITUS

We Are Not the Only Kind of We

Cayo Honorato

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MAPPINGS

Silvano Lora

(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1931 – 2003): Painter, sculptor and cultural manager. He is regarded as a key reference in 20th-century Dominican ... read more

EMERITUS

Strategies that Foster a Formless Space

Diana Rangel

Venues: Venezuela España

Assuming different roles and enunciative instances, artist-psychologist Diana Rangel (Caracas, Venezuela, 1987) addresses the relationship between ... read more

PRACTICES

Against a 'Straight' Model of Arts Education

Rosario García Martínez

What methodologies and structures for teaching and learning about art are maintained today in academic circles? In this world, what is the ... read more

MAPPINGS

The Sovereignty of Mangoes

Esvin Alarcón Lam

Venue: Caracas - Mérida, Venezuela

Formative project developed in partnership with Goethe-Institut Venezuela, in collaboration with Fundación Espacio and Espacio Proyecto Libertad, ... read more

CLASSROOMS

The Unstitched Curriculum

Luis Camnitzer

In this session of AUDITORIUM, Luis Camnitzer will share his reflections and concerns in regard to the current educational systems of art: What do ... read more

AUDITORIUM

The Sunday Supplement of the Jornal do Brasil and NeoConcretism

Elizabeth Catoia Varela

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ESSAYS

From the Edge of the Edge: A Crossover Between Pedagogical and Curatorial Practices

Lara Marmor

The artistic, pedagogical and curatorial practices of Alberto Goldenstein, Fernanda Laguna and Roberto Echen generated new ways of perceiving and ... read more

MAPPINGS

The Naked Teacher

Simón Rodríguez Tomás Straka

What did the errant, naked teacher bring in his head? A vast educational reform, much greater than the one he had proposed in Caracas before leaving ... read more

ESSAYS

This Seed Will Germinate

Gabo Camnitzer

Venue: Guadalajara, México

Art and education residency organized by LA ESCUELA___, together with Casa Orozco and the Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco through the Escuela de ... read more

RESIDENCIES

Felipe Ehrenberg

(Mexico City, Mexico, 1943 – Morelos, Mexico, 2017): Artist, editor, essayist, professor, and activist. He was internationally recognized for his ... read more

EMERITUS

The Naked School

Miguel Braceli

Schools must be naked, all their walls demolished to keep their structure, leaving only what is essential. They would then be buildings without ... read more

ESSAYS

The Sunday Supplement of the Jornal do Brasil and NeoConcretism

Elizabeth Catoia Varela

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ESSAYS

Decolonizing the Steadies: from The Sovereignty of Mangoes to Tropics

Esvin Alarcón Lam

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CLASSROOMS

Dramaturgy as an Architecture of Meaning

Laura Uribe

Venue: Online

"How to (re)imagine more dignified futures? How to (re)present reflections that produce other realities?" The Mexican performing artist Laura Uribe ... read more

LABORATORIES

Architecture as Construction of Narratives for the Common Good

La Cabina de la Curiosidad La Cabina de la Curiosidad

Based in Quito, Ecuador, and directed by Marie Combette and Daniel Moreno Flores, La Cabina de la Curiosidad is a traveling laboratory that includes ... read more

PRACTICES

"The School, like the Yanomami, Has a Body and Needs to Be Well Fed to Be Happy"

Daniel Jabra Thiago Benucci

Venue: Brasil

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MAPPINGS

Guides School and other Protocols of Contemplation

Beatriz González

Venue: Online

In this AUDITORIUM session, Beatriz González shares with LA ESCUELA___ some of the anecdotes behind one of her most valued 'strategies': ... read more

AUDITORIUM

Movements of Insistence

Alina Marinelli

From various techniques and approaches to movement, Alina Marinelli (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983) addresses the context of the planetary ecological ... read more

PRACTICES

Pedagogical (Re)mediations and Micropolitical Scales in Latin American Artistic Activism

Renato Bermúdez Dini

What this type of recent art activism practices have raised through their interventions is the importance of disputing the mediations and ... read more

MAPPINGS

A Search around the Center

Anna Bella Geiger

Ana Clara Simões Lopes talks with Anna Bella Geiger about her learning experiences with her fundamental teacher Fayga Ostrower, her ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Making Life Livable

Eduardo Carrera

When I talk about exploring and mapping, I also mean getting out of the way and getting lost. Ahead in this text, I offer three provocations ... read more

MAPPINGS

Butterflies that Drink Turtle Tears

Lia Rodrigues

Venue: Online

In this session of AUDITORIUM, Lia Rodrigues shares with LA ESCUELA___ her reflections on creative processes based on syntropic farming, whose ... read more

AUDITORIUM

Fourth World or a Classroom Without Infrastructure

Nicolás Paris

Venue: Online

"The creative space as a classroom without physical structure." Colombian artist Nicolás Paris proposes an online co-creation laboratory ... read more

LABORATORIES

Utopian Teaching

Benvenuto Chavajay María José Machado Gutiérrez Jessica Briceño Cisneros

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CLASSROOMS

Our Stories Tell Us About Where We Come From

Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe Luis Romero

Placed between cosmological and geographical frontiers, the Venezuelan Yanomami people go about their daily life amid physical and idiosyncratic ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Education from the Museum as a Resonant Strategy

María Victoria Guzmán

Are there pedagogical strategies that dislocate art museums from their vocation as civilizing devices to become institutions of reparation, rooted in ... read more

MAPPINGS

The Arts as Revealers of the Socio-Environmental Past

Ana Marcela França

Is it in fact possible to recreate past realities, belonging to a distant past? [...] The works of Argentine artist Lucila Gradín and Brazilian ... read more

MAPPINGS

Art and Education in the Exhibition ‘PretAtitude: Emergencies, Insurgencies and Affirmations’

Marcio Farias

Venue: Brasil

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MAPPINGS

Metabolic Disobedience

Jorgge Menna Barreto Eloisa Brantes

Venue: Bogotá, Colombia

Formative project developed in alliance with the Master in Performing Arts program of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, together with Mapa Teatro ... read more

CLASSROOMS

Rubens Gerchman

(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1942 – São Paulo, Brazil, 2008) Painter and mixed media artist. The pictorial work he developed since the sixties shows the ... read more

EMERITUS

Jesualdo Sosa

(Tacuarembó, Uruguay, 1905 – 1982) Teacher, writer, pedagogue, and journalist. He was a teacher devoted to the rural environment, who fervently ... read more

EMERITUS

Intimacy as a Presupposition for a Decolonial Practice

Renata Sampaio

Venue: Cali, Colombia

Art and education residency organized by LA ESCUELA___ together with Lugar a Dudas, with the participation of Brazilian transdisciplinary artist and ... read more

RESIDENCIES

Education as a System of Freedom

Carlos Cruz-Diez Nelson Garrido

Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1923 — Paris, France, 2019) was a contemporary artist, regarded as one of the key 20th-century researchers in ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

The Party as a Space for Reflection

La Ruidosa Oficina Marga Sequeira Catalina Tenorio Mariela Richmond

La Ruidosa Oficina is an artistic and cultural management and mediation collective based in Costa Rica, which uses the festive dynamics of coming ... read more

PRACTICES

Hydropoetics – Hydropolitics

José Luis Macas Paredes

Venue: Guadalajara, México

Art and education residency organized by La Escuela ___, together with Casa Orozco and the Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco through the ... read more

RESIDENCIES

Art and Education in the Exhibition ‘PretAtitude: Emergencies, Insurgencies and Affirmations’

Marcio Farias

Venue: Brasil

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MAPPINGS

Configuring Space: Body, Land, and Community

Benvenuto Chavajay Jessica Briceño Cisneros María José Machado Gutiérrez

Venue: Cuenca, Santiago de Chile y San Pedro La Laguna

Formative projects conceived as devices for collective making and learning. To be developed under the curatorial coordination of Félix Suazo. read more

CLASSROOMS

Fayga Ostrower

(Łódź, Poland, 1920 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001) Plastic artist, designer, illustrator, and professor. Ostrower emigrated to Brazil in 1934 and ... read more

EMERITUS

Antonieta Sosa

(New York, USA, 1940) Venezuelan conceptual artist and educator. She studied at the University of California and began her exhibition career in the ... read more

EMERITUS

Marta Traba

(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1930 – Mejorada del Campo, Spain, 1983) Art critic, writer, curator, educator, and cultural promoter. Marta Traba developed ... read more

EMERITUS

Militant Memories

Sergio Beltrán-García

Venue: Online

Cartographies and Memorials to Defenders of the Lands. Mexican Architect, activist and researcher Sergio Beltrán-García proposes a ... read more

LABORATORIES

Learning from the Periphery and Affection

Paola Eguiluz Paola Eguiluz Javier Zugarazo

Paola Eguiluz (Ecatepec, Mexico, 1986) Visual artist, curator, and art historian. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Autónoma de ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Sharing Knowledge in Spaces of Curiosity

Laboratorio Disonancia Anamaría Garzón Mantilla Patricio Dalgo Toledo Jorge Vásconez

Venue: Ecuador

Laboratorio Disonancia is a transdisciplinary collective formed by Patricio Dalgo and Jorge Vásconez, founded in Quito (Ecuador) around 1997 ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Art as a Form of Knowledge. Processes of Participation and Active Reflection in the Works of Lea Lublin and Cecilia Vicuña

Renata Cervetto

This "provocation to thought" and the action that consequently occurs is something that we will see ahead in a selection of works by Cecilia Vicuña ... read more

MAPPINGS

Some Collective Collaborative Situations

Ricardo Basbaum

Venue: Online

In this AUDITORIUM session, Ricardo Basbaum shares with LA ESCUELA___ his reflections on the complexities implicit in the relationships that arise in ... read more

AUDITORIUM

A Good Education Is a Transmission of Stimuli

Handel Guayasamín Handel Guayasamín Ese Colectivo

Venue: Ecuador

From Ecuador, ESE Colectivo talks with architect and professor Handel Guayasamín (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1951), known for his architectural work and ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

The Body as a Fertile Place to Produce Knowledge

Fernanda Barreto Fernanda Barreto Javier Zugarazo

Venue: México

Fernanda Barreto (São Paulo, Brazil, 1988) is an artist, translator, and cultural manager interested in educational and pedagogical practices. Her ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

The Aesthetics of the Oppressed: Political Memory and the Pedagogy of a Poetical Laboratory

Augusto Boal Cristina Ribas

Venue: Brasil

ESSAYS

An Indissoluble Vital Commitment

Silvano Lora Quisqueya Lora

Silvano Lora (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1931 — 2003) was a painter, sculptor, cultural manager, and pioneer of performance and social art in ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Aqualiteracies: Feeling~Thinking with Waters

Daniela Medina Poch Elizabeth Gallón Droste

Venue: Online

A Fluid Archive of Interspecies Communications in Hybrid Temporalities. How do we communicate with water? What hybrid communication protocols do we ... read more

LABORATORIES

Salón Sindical de Artistas Vol.1: Del quehacer artístico y su rol sociocultural

Fiorella Faillace Laura Arboleda

Venue: Online

This space for collective learning and making seeks to problematize the challenges faced by artistic work in Latin America. This will be done through ... read more

LABORATORIES

Carlos Raúl Villanueva

(London, United Kingdom, 1900 - Caracas, Venezuela, 1975) Architect, urban planner, and educator, considered as one of the most influential ... read more

EMERITUS

The Work Exists While It Is Created

Diego Barboza Marialejandra Maza

Diego Barboza (1945–2003) was a pioneer of Venezuelan action art, known for his expressions in public spaces carried out in several cities around the ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Igniting the Gaze as Method

Beatriz González Sol Astrid Giraldo Escobar

Venue: Colombia

How can one teach how to look? What results are sought? How could they be evaluated? Would there be a method, a path, or rather, a rhizome, a loop ... read more

ESSAYS

Where there Are Problems, there Are No Borders

Antonio Caro Alex Brahim

Antonio Caro (Bogotá, Colombia, 1950 — 2021) was a conceptual artist known both for the forcefulness of his images as for his sharp and insightful ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Lygia Pape, Professor: Pedagogical Practices as Artistic Practices

Lygia Pape Michelle Farias Sommer

Defining herself as "intrinsically an anarchist," her pedagogical practices followed the same direction: they vindicated unrestricted freedom for ... read more

ESSAYS

Field Research: #EducationArt

Rodolfo Andaur

Most of these collective and collaborative research hubs have surfaced mainly because of the scarce resources for managing new ventures and the lack ... read more

MAPPINGS

Ethics as a Traversing Dimension of Art and Education

Ticio Escobar Ticio Escobar Félix Suazo

Venue: Paraguay

As a convinced believer in the potential of art as education, Paraguayan critic, curator, museologist, and cultural manager Ticio Escobar talks about ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Asdrúbal Colmenárez

(Trujillo, Venezuela, 1936): Mixed media artist, living and studying in Paris since the late 1960s. Colmenárez assumes the artwork as a device for ... read more

EMERITUS

The Studio Is Inside Your Head

Antonieta Sosa Nayari Castillo Méndez

Antonieta Sosa (1940, Venezuelan, New York) is a conceptual artist who addressed pedagogy as a social, ethical, and political action through her ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Success Is the Result of Previous Experience

Albor Arquitectos Albor Arquitectos

Venue: Cuba

Founded in 2011 in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Albor architecture studio is the result of the association of Carlos Manuel González Baute, Alain ... read more

PRACTICES

Experience an Instant with Reality

Lygia Pape Ronald Duarte

Lygia Pape (Nova Friburgo, Brasil, 1927 – Río de Janeiro, Brasil, 2004) was a key multidisciplinary artist in the development of contemporary ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

EXTRAMUROS

DIADIA Arquitectura La Cabina de la Curiosidad Lunárquicos

Venue: Lima, Bogotá, Quito

Formative projects conceived as devices for collective making and learning. To be developed in popular neighborhoods of Lima, Bogota, and Quito, ... read more

CLASSROOMS

Lina Bo Bardi

(Rome, Italy, 1914 - São Paulo, Brazil, 1992): Architect, educator, and writer. Beyond her important role as an architectural designer, Lina Bo Bardi ... read more

EMERITUS

Experiencing the Territory through Bodily Experience

Trauma Interdisciplina Juan Carlos Jiménez Rosario Romero José Luis García Nava

Venue: México

Trauma Interdisciplina is a transdisciplinary art collective currently based in the city of Morelia, Michoacán. Trauma was born from the ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Margarita Paksa

(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1932 - 2020) Visual artist and teacher. A pioneer in the use of materials and technological media in Argentinian art. As ... read more

EMERITUS

Art and Education in the Americas

Félix Suazo

In the midst of the institutional transformations in the field of art education that have taken place in the continent, there have been some ... read more

MAPPINGS

Learning From Different Ways of Accompanying Each Other

La Coyotera Juan Carlos Jiménez Carmen Jacobo Iturbide Kees Ouwens

Venue: México

La Coyotera (Umecuaro, Mexico) is a workshop studio and residency program that aims to provide a natural environment for creating art projects. Built ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Artexploración: Dreaming, Ritual and Knowledge

Delonis Escalante

Based on a personal practice of oneiric exploration sustained over 20 years and academic research on Indigenous art of the Americas and dreaming, ... read more

PRACTICES

Beatriz Nascimento

(Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil, 1942 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1995) Historian, scholar, and activist with outstanding participation in Brazil’s Black ... read more

EMERITUS

Lygia Clark

(Belo Horizonte, 1920 – Rio de Janeiro, 1988): A key multidisciplinary artist for understanding 20th-century Latin American geometric abstraction. ... read more

EMERITUS

A Complex Weaving: Ancient Indigenous and Contemporary Theatricalities

Miguel Rubio Zapata

Venue: Online

In this session of AUDITORIUM, Miguel Rubio Zapata shares with LA ESCUELA___ his reflections concerning ancient Indigenous and contemporary ... read more

AUDITORIUM

Seeing and Educating: Marta Traba in Colombian Television

Marta Traba Katia González Martínez

Venue: Colombia

Marta Traba's work in the country managed to combine art criticism with academic teaching, radio and television programs, magazine editing and ... read more

ESSAYS

Carlos Cruz-Diez

(Caracas, Venezuela, 1923 – Paris, France, 2019): Contemporary artist, regarded as one of the key 20th-century researchers in the realm of color. ... read more

EMERITUS

"The School, like the Yanomami, Has a Body and Needs to Be Well Fed to Be Happy"

Daniel Jabra Thiago Benucci

Venue: Brasil

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MAPPINGS

What if We Think (about Ourselves) Together?

Gabriela Mistral Daniela Ricciardi

Dialoguing with her texts implies going through fundamental issues to think ourselves, individually and collectively, about the role of women; the ... read more

ESSAYS

Expanded Educational Praxis

Susana Tambutti

To think of ways of linking the fields of art and education is to imagine possible strategies for modifying the established reproductive mechanism, a ... read more

MAPPINGS

Deforming into the Multiplicity of Cosmic Relations

NOMASMETAFORAS Clara Melniczuk Julian Dupont

The NOMASMETAFORAS collective, integrated by Clara Melniczuk and Julián Dupont, works in the fields of contemporary art and experimental ... read more

PRACTICES

Composting the "Composteiras": Self-education and Co-formation into a Study Group with Beatriz Nascimento

Beatriz Nascimento Millena Lízia Walla Capelobo

Venue: Brasil

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ESSAYS

From Spectators to Creatives

Silvano Lora Michelle Ricardo

Venue: República Dominicana

The need to eliminate any vestige of the dictatorial ideology led him to summon intellectuals, poets and other artists to bring art, culture and ... read more

ESSAYS

Techno-Poetics of Activism and Dissidence

Felipe Rivas San Martín

Felipe Rivas San Martín (Valdivia, Chile, 1982) is a visual artist, essayist, and sexual dissidence activist. His practice emerges from the ... read more

PRACTICES

Ivan Illich

(Vienna, 1926 - Bremen, 2002): Educationist and essayist. He is known for his theoretical developments in the field of Latin American pedagogy. He ... read more

EMERITUS

We Are Not the Only Kind of We

Cayo Honorato

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MAPPINGS

Valcárcel: Brutally Lucid (and Generous)

Roberto Valcárcel Valeria Paz Moscoso

Implicit in Valcárcel's proposal for a movement that summons creativity to contribute to the construction of a more democratic society, is a new ... read more

ESSAYS

Aesthetics of Dispersion

Antonio Caro Ericka Flórez

To think of Antonio Caro (Bogotá, Colombia, 1950–2021) as a teacher-artist because he gave workshops that he considered part of his oeuvre, makes us ... read more

ESSAYS

In the Footsteps of Toledo in the Schools of A’cani

Francisco Toledo Mónica Amieva

The Schools of A’cani enable us to reimagine the naturalized limits between art, activism, education and what we understand by democratization, ... read more

ESSAYS

Urgency, Affection and Informality: Pedagogy and Contemporary Art in Central America

Marga Sequeira

The fact that the three projects [CAP, Escuela Experimental de Arte, and EspIRA] are based on affective pedagogies is the outcome of experiential and ... read more

MAPPINGS

Ideas Without Action Are Nonsense

Esvin Alarcón Lam

Esvin Alarcón Lam (Guatemala, 1988) is an artist whose work revolves around critical thinking about historical and political relations in ... read more

PRACTICES

Augusto Boal

(Río de Janeiro, Brasil, 1931 - 2009): Theater director, educator and politician. He is known for his participatory staging and revolutionary ... read more

EMERITUS

An Embodied Experience of Space-Time

José Luis Macas Paredes

José Luis Macas Paredes (Quito, Ecuador, 1983) is a visual artist, professor, and researcher whose practice integrates the specificities and ... read more

PRACTICES

Cuba: The Higher Arts Institution — The Fruitful Seed

Jasmine Kaur Chohan

Venue: Cuba

The space is often cited as being less affected by the political ebbs and flows of the Cuban State, where freedom of speech and expression are ... read more

MAPPINGS

Bodies as Sensitive Territories

Varinia Canto Vila

Venue: Chile

Dancer, choreographer and researcher of the body in movement, Varinia Canto Vila (Santiago de Chile, 1976) addresses in her practice the notion of ... read more

PRACTICES

Francisco Toledo

(Mexico City, Mexico, 1940 - Oaxaca, Mexico, 2019): Visual artist, activist and philanthropist. He is known for his strong support of numerous causes ... read more

EMERITUS

Know-How-to-Live in the Ruins

Lina Bo Bardi Luiza Proença

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ESSAYS

Future Weavings: Networks of dialogue and collaboration around Latin American textile art

Noqanchis Grupo Silät Hellen Ascoli, Luisa González-Reiche and Negma Coy

Venue: Argentina, Guatemala, Perú

Formative projects conceived collectively through exchanges among weaving artists, artists with training in fine arts, and cultural agents from ... read more

CLASSROOMS

Participatory Art as an Educational Action

Diego Barboza Katherine Chacón

The viewer’s participation was a way to create a space for sensitive interactions that would allow a change in our way of being in the world, to ... read more

ESSAYS

Whirlwind of Our Words: Practices in Zapatista Autonomous Education

Natalia Arcos Salvo

The Zapatista arts are fulfilling the double function of, on the one hand, narrating their own history for the exercise of collective memory and, on ... read more

MAPPINGS

Knowing in Order to Learn and Not for Dominating

Carolina Castro Jorquera

These initiatives are proposed as a place of life and production of subjectivities, impulse and energy in the face of the epistemological opening ... read more

MAPPINGS

The Experience of the Common

Laura Anderson Barbata

Venue: Valparaíso, Chile

Formative project developed in collaboration with Ciudad Abierta and the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV), with participation from ... read more

CLASSROOMS

Liminal Geopoetics: Pedagogies in Public

Mônica Hoff Miguel Braceli

Venue: Kassel, Germany

Formative project developed at CAMP notes on education at documenta fifteen by La Escuela ___. read more

CLASSROOMS

Learning from the Possibilities of Resonance and Interference

Nicole L´Huillier

Venue: Chile

Nicole L’Huillier (Santiago, Chile, 1985) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice centers on exploring sounds and ... read more

PRACTICES

Jorge Romero Brest

(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1905 – 1989) Critic and curator. Jorge Romero Brest served as director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1955-1963) ... read more

EMERITUS

Manuel Casanueva

(1943 – 2014): Architect, scholar, and experimental researcher. After graduating as an architect from the School of Valparaiso in the Seventies, he ... read more

EMERITUS

Celeida Tostes

(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1929 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1995): Ceramic sculptor and educator. She explored the plasticity of the ceramic material in ... read more

EMERITUS

Re-imagining from the Power of Shared Delirium

danie valencia sepúlveda danie valencia sepúlveda Javier Zugarazo

Venue: México

danie valencia sepúlveda (Ayutla, Jalisco, Mexico, 1990) Herrorist, educator, researcher, cultural programmer, and independent translator. They ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Political Fiction Program

Agremiação LATIDOS

Venue: Online

Is our imagination in crisis? What is its political role? What prevents and allows today another imagery of politics? Can we deconstruct official ... read more

LABORATORIES

The New, the Exotic. The Search for References in Recent Chilean Architecture

Beatriz Coeffé Boitano Felipe Corvalán Tapia

Venue: Chile

Architecture, compared to other fields of knowledge, presents codes and procedures that are different from the common reference mechanisms of ... read more

MAPPINGS

The Medium is the Method: Activating Education as Experimental Art Practice with LA ESCUELA___

Miguel Braceli Sofía Olascoaga

This conversation first appeared in English on Art & Education on May 31, 2022. read more

CONVERSATIONS

"Not Every School Is a School": Art and Education in the Center of the Americas

María Paola Malavasi

Out of need or desire, those who put into practice a work that seeks to act from education are called to be bridges between artistic practice, ... read more

MAPPINGS

Joaquín Torres-García

(Montevideo, Uruguay, 1874 – Montevideo, Uruguay, 1949): Painter, professor, and theoretician who developed a fruitful career as a modernist muralist ... read more

EMERITUS

Resituating Creativity

Emilio Renart Sebastián Vidal Mackinson

Introduction... emerged in the context of the last post-dictatorship in Argentina as a tool to begin healing the civil trauma of years of human ... read more

ESSAYS

Against Patriarchal Cobwebs

Mónica Mayer

Venue: Online

In this AUDITORIUM session, Mónica Mayer shares with LA ESCUELA___ her reflections on the patriarchal dynamics present in public spaces, her struggle ... read more

AUDITORIUM

The Relevance of a 'Liquid' Pedagogy

Gerardo Mosquera Gerardo Mosquera Félix Suazo

Venue: Cuba

In this interview, Cuban curator, critic, and art historian Gerardo Mosquera shares his views on the role of teaching artists in the configuration ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Antonio Caro

(Bogotá, Colombia, 1950 - 2021): Conceptual artist, known for his use and appropriation of advertising and symbolic icons of his country. Caro built ... read more

EMERITUS

Oaxaca: A Framework where the Community Happens

Jaime Ruiz Martínez

From that confused and polarized atmosphere, arose new imageries to address the public realm, forms of protest, and the quest for self-management. ... read more

MAPPINGS

Learning from the Outside

Asdrúbal Colmenárez Gerardo Zavarce

In Colmenárez's work, breaking with the asymmetries of power relationships becomes a recurring sign. The artwork is an excuse for holding a dialogue, ... read more

ESSAYS

Working the Body and Studying as Forms of Combat

Helio Eichbauer Débora Oelsner Lopes

Leia este artigo em português aqui. read more

ESSAYS

Gego

(Gertrud Goldschmidt) (Hamburg, German Empire, 1912 – Caracas, Venezuela, 1994): Architect, graphic artist and sculptor. She developed a prolific ... read more

EMERITUS

Claudio Perna

(Milan, Italy, 1938 – Holguin, Cuba, 1997): Conceptual artist, photographer, and geographer. As an active teacher and researcher, he devoted much of ... read more

EMERITUS

Knowing How to Be, to Do and to Celebrate

Handel Guayasamín

Venue: Online

In this AUDITORIUM session, Handel Guayasamín shares with LA ESCUELA___ an approach to the thinking and works of his studio Handel Guayasamín, ... read more

AUDITORIUM

LA ESCUELA___ inaugura sus Aulas con Esvin Alarcón Lam en Venezuela

Esvin Alarcón Lam

NEWS

The Aesthetics of the Oppressed: Political Memory and the Pedagogy of a Poetical Laboratory

Augusto Boal Cristina Ribas

Leia este artigo em português aqui. read more

ESSAYS

Soil Analysis Laboratory

Andrés Pereira Paz

Venue: Online

The Soil Analysis Laboratory is a space for reflection and self-knowledge conducted by Bolivian artist Andrés Pereira Paz, focused on ... read more

LABORATORIES

Artivisms for the Body, the Land, and Survival

Brian Smith Hudson

A selection of cases of artivism from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, which work with practices of un-education and radical imagination, using tools ... read more

MAPPINGS

Institutions Make the World Impossible

Roberto Valcárcel María Galindo

Roberto Valcárcel (La Paz, Bolivia, 1951 — 2021) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his audacious and questioning works, which ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Architectural Scenes of a Situated Contemporaneity

Melina Pekholtz

Venue: Paraguay

Several movements and schools with a strong local imprint are arising in the Paraguayan cultural scene. They are developing unprecedented products ... read more

MAPPINGS

Everyone Has Something to Learn and Something to Teach

Gabo Camnitzer Gabo Camnitzer

Venue: Estados Unidos

Artist, educator, and musician Gabo Camnitzer (1984) shares reflections on his experiences as a student and teacher throughout his life, thus ... read more

PRACTICES

Lygia Pape

(Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1927 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2004): Multidisciplinary artist, considered among the most relevant figures of 20th-century ... read more

EMERITUS

Strategies for Twisting the Educational Potential of the Museum

Jordi Ferreiro

Jordi Ferreiro (Barcelona, Spain, 1982) is an artist and educator who enjoys to shake and disrupt structures. Focused on performance and audience ... read more

PRACTICES

Living Together and Doing In Common: Neighborhood Based Artistic Practices

Ana Laura López de la Torre

Ana Laura López de la Torre (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1969) is an artist, writer and educator. Her work is developed at a community level seeking ... read more

PRACTICES

Digging and Finding the Rhizome: Image as Multiplicity

Gonzalo Lagos

Venue: Argentina

Gonzalo Lagos (Neuquén, Argentina, 1988) is a dance artist and independent curator whose work is developed at the intersection of the performative ... read more

PRACTICES

Conucos, Shabonos, and WhatsApp: Technologies for Embodied Education and Radical Learning

Juliana Steiner

Venue: Colombia

How flexible and malleable can curating become in order to provoke a flux of ideas rather than reassert already established concepts? [...] What ... read more

MAPPINGS

Frantz Fanon

(Martinique, France, 1925 – Maryland, United States, 1965): Caribbean thinker, psychiatrist, and socialist activist. Over many travels, he developed ... read more

EMERITUS

Reis Malunguinho: In the Bushes There Is Only One

Ariana Nuala

Venue: Brasil

Leia este artigo em português aqui. read more

ESSAYS

Artistic Teaching: an Act in the Present

Margarita Paksa Agustín Díez Fischer

That relationship between teaching and art is also apparent in her approach to art history. Far removed from avant-garde positions that suppose a ... read more

ESSAYS

Language and Existence

Antonieta Sosa María Elena Ramos

The artistic work of Antonieta Sosa has the dialogic mode—expressed or implied—among its frequent resources, with a circulation and dynamic exchange ... read more

ESSAYS

Reading the World Before the Word: Post Neoconcrete Legacies and Decolonial Pedagogies

Jessica Gogan

Art as action could be liberated from pedestals, frames or buildings and intertwined with life, affecting and being affected by the everydayness of ... read more

MAPPINGS

David Alfaro Siqueiros

(Chihuahua, Mexico, 1898 – Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1974) Painter and educator. A pioneer of muralism related to socialist realism and political art in ... read more

EMERITUS

(In)curate Visualities: Educational Practices in the Works of Andréa Hygino and Maria Auxiliadora Da Silva

Mirella Maria

Venue: Brasil

The term ‘(in)curate visualities’ attempts to approximate what is disclosed and what is still covered in artworks that touch on educational topics. ... read more

MAPPINGS

Nettings: Between Built, Broken, and Invented Threads for an Anti-racist Proposal in Art Teaching

Beth Castro Deise de Brito

Venue: Brasil

Television, books, entertainment, sounds, spatialities, visuals, movements. These instances acting together cooperate for the perception of these ... read more

MAPPINGS

New Pedagogies: Art Practices and Citizen Activism in Peru

Víctor Vich

These three projects are signs of how much the school can learn from citizen activism. It is a matter of pedagogical innovation from the art ... read more

MAPPINGS

A Playground against Oppression

Labo Ciudadano Gracia Salazar Eduardo Burger

Led by Eduardo Burger, Gracia Salazar lang, Seymar Liscano, Andreina González, and Rogmy Armas, Labo Ciudadano (Caracas, Venezuela, 2017) is a ... read more

PRACTICES

Emilio Renart

(Mendoza, Argentina, 1925 – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991): Sculptor, painter and researcher. With an emphasis on the study of creativity and its ... read more

EMERITUS

A Policy for Dance Is a Collective Construction

Lia Rodrigues

Silvia Soter talks with Lia Rodrigues about dance as a pedagogical and political reflection in today’s Brazil, the principles of the Escola Livre de ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

(A)nto-biography: Practices of Food Care

Malu Valerio

Venue: Online

"To think of food as a concrete construction with grounds that support the erected." By investigating the cooking archive of Antonieta Sosa, ... read more

LABORATORIES

Reis Malunguinho: In the Bushes There Is Only One

Ariana Nuala

Venue: Brasil

Leia este artigo em português aqui. read more

ESSAYS

Saber-viver nas ruínas

Lina Bo Bardi Luiza Proença

Read this article in English here. read more

ESSAYS

Performance Has a Multidisciplinary Base that Crosses Artistic Boundaries

Josefina Alcázar Josefina Alcázar Félix Suazo

Venue: México

Dedicated to the study of performance art in Mexico and Latin America, Mexican researcher Josefina Alcázar has published numerous books and ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Going to the Park is as Important as Entering a Museum: Pablo Barriga's Artistic Practice

Pablo Barriga Pamela Cevallos

Venue: Ecuador

Barriga's imprint has to do with ideas and postures, not with a style [...] It is only in the last two decades that research has been carried out ... read more

ESSAYS

Reinventiva têxtil

Ateliê Vivo

Venue: Cali, Colombia

Art and education residency organized by LA ESCUELA___ together with Lugar a Dudas, with the participation of Brazilian collective Ateliê Vivo, ... read more

RESIDENCIES

Sign: Activating Technologies of the Void

Patricia Domínguez Andrés Pereira Paz

Venue: Online

“What is commanded to move energetically from within moves on the outside through lines.” 1 By exploring the emancipatory potential of artistic ... read more

LABORATORIES

Mediating through Transformative Pedagogy with a Critical Dimension

Susan Rocha Susan Rocha Félix Suazo

Venue: Ecuador

Ecuadorian curator, art critic, and teacher Susan Rocha is active between non-formal pedagogies, academic activity, and museum work. In this ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Art and Education Are Enriched if they Assume Responsibilities

Luis Camnitzer

Miguel Braceli talks with Luis Camnitzer about the place of art as education today, the tradition of artist-run schools in Latin America, access to ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Evening the Scales: Felipe Ehrenberg and the Pedagogies of Cooperation

Felipe Ehrenberg Nicolás Pradilla

“Perhaps, among the hundreds who are learning today to work in groups in order to publish, there will emerge those who manage to even the scales ... read more

ESSAYS

Communal Aesthetics: Toward a Radical Updating of Memory

Arte a 360 Grados Emmanuel Tepal Calvario Enrique Maraver

Reconfigured in 2019 as a Tequiocalco, Arte a 360 Grados is an organization that resides in Hueytlacuauac, Cuauhtotoatla, Tlaxcalla (Mexico), ... read more

PRACTICES

Learning on the Edge

Al Borde

Venue: Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

Formative project developed in alliance with Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Campus Alto Paraná in Paraguay, with the ... read more

CLASSROOMS

Should, Could, Can: Movement within the Relation of Law, Rules, and Life

Varinia Canto Vila

Venue: Online

An exercise in social choreography and empathy. Chilean dancer, choreographer, and researcher Varinia Canto Vila proposes a space for exploring the ... read more

LABORATORIES

Creating Narrative Ruptures to Re-signify

TAWNA José Miguel Imbaquingo Chimarro Anamaría Garzón Mantilla

Venue: Ecuador

TAWNA is a multicultural cinema organization with a focus on native Amazonian narratives. It is a collective initiative that intends to make visible ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Composting the "Composteiras": Self-education and Co-formation into a Study Group with Beatriz Nascimento

Beatriz Nascimento Millena Lízia Walla Capelobo

Venue: Brasil

Leia este artigo em português aqui. read more

ESSAYS

A Pedagogy Beyond Rigidity

Sebastián Calfuqueo

Sebastián Calfuqueo (Santiago, Chile, 1991) is an artist of Mapuche origin whose work invites critical reflection on the social, cultural and ... read more

PRACTICES

Villanueva the Architect, the Teacher, and the Teaching Notes

Carlos Raúl Villanueva Maciá Pintó

Venue: Venezuela

If the Ciudad Universitaria and the Faculty of Architecture can be considered true classes of urban planning and architecture from which to draw ... read more

ESSAYS

Where the Horizon Moves

Gustavo Ciríaco

Venue: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Formative project developed in alliance with the Departamento de Artes del Movimiento of the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), El Asunto de lo ... read more

CLASSROOMS

Dialoguing on Equal Terms with the Theatricalities of the World

Miguel Rubio Zapata

Karen Bernedo talks with Miguel Rubio Zapata about the beginnings of Yuyachkani, the role of pedagogy in the process of creating a community ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Political Retrofuturism of Abya Yala: Activisms, Between Time and Technique

Felipe Rivas San Martín

Venue: Online

"Activism as a particular form of technology". Chilean artist Felipe Rivas San Martín proposes an online co-creation laboratory around ... read more

LABORATORIES

Learning to Bring Down Walls

Mónica Mayer

Jesús Torrivilla talks with Mayer about her experiences with Judy Chicago at the Woman’s Building, about her experiences with teachers such as ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

A Solid Core of Reasoning

Gego Ruth Auerbach

Gego (1912–1994) was a German-Venezuelan artist, architect, and designer who gained international recognition with her large-format spatial ... read more

CONVERSATIONS

Lea Lublin

(Brest, Poland, 1929 – Paris, France, 1999): Visual artist and educator. Known for the iconoclastic and appropriationist works she developed in the ... read more

EMERITUS

Collective Creation as a Form of Promiscuous Care

Antonieta Landa

Promiscuity implies indiscriminate care, going beyond the idea of only taking care of "our own" [...] We will trace care practices through specific ... read more

MAPPINGS

Speculating Pacts on the Common

Ana Luiza Braga Juliana M. Streva Lior Zisman Zalis

Each one of these experiences weaves together the becomings and tactics that trouble the foundations that build our ideas of State, community and ... read more

MAPPINGS

_WALKS _WALKING_ WALKERS_

Eleonora Fabião

Venue: Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Formative project developed in alliance with Kiosko Galería with the participation of artists and art students from Santa Cruz de La Sierra and La ... read more

CLASSROOMS

How To Fragment Machismo? Augusto Boal and the Rehearsal of Everyday Life

Augusto Boal Michel Gantous

Fragmenting machismo means co-creating a psychodiversity and a diversity of ways of expressing masculinities from the point of view of a relational ... read more

ESSAYS

Paulo Freire

(Recife, Brazil, 1921 – São Paulo, Brazil, 1997): Educationist, politician, and philosopher. As a defender of critical pedagogy, his propositions ... read more

EMERITUS

Jesualdo Sosa: A Transit-Pedagogy

Jesualdo Sosa Pablo Pineau

Venue: Uruguay

The notion of ‘transit-pedagogy' expresses a position on the relationship between the socio-economic, political and educational spheres that places ... read more

ESSAYS

Diego Barboza

(Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1945 – Caracas, Venezuela, 2003): Mixed media artist and pioneer of action art in Venezuela. He began to develop his practices ... read more

EMERITUS

The Joy of Making Art By-For-With the Native Peoples

Galería MUY John Burstein Martha Alejandro

Founded in 2014, Galería MUY (GaleMUY) is an arts space formed by a collective of Mayan and Zoque creatives of Chiapas, Mexico. Based in San ... read more

PRACTICES