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Institutions Make the World Impossible

María Galindo

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

CONVERSATIONS

A Solid Core of Reasoning

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

The Radical Pedagogy of Celeida Tostes

Cristiana Tejo

Celeida presents a unique way of inventing artistic communities and fostering students’ encounters with their reality and expressiveness. The ... read more

ESSAYS

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

Working the Body and Studying as Forms of Combat

Débora Oelsner Lopes

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ESSAYS

Rubens Gerchman and the Pedagogy of the Everyday

Claudia Calirman

If the aim was to de-academize the school, it was by no means to de-intellectualize it (…). Rather than being a space dedicated to leisure, to the ... read more

ESSAYS

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

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

#Arte de acción #Arte Conceptual

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

Felipe Ehrenberg

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

EMERITUS

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

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

Constructing the Self Collectively

Ricardo Basbaum

Venue: Entrevista

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

Aesthetics of Dispersion

Ericka Flórez

Thinking of Antonio Caro as an educational artist, because he gave workshops and these were considered by him to be part of his work, leads us to ... read more

ESSAYS

Beatriz González

(Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1938): Painter, sculptor, and graphic artist . Considered one of the most influential figures of the Colombian art scene due ... read more

EMERITUS

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

From Spectators to Creatives

Michelle Ricardo

The Art and Liberation Movement engaged in a number of interventions in marginal neighborhoods of the city, where exhibitions, recitals, murals, film ... read more

ESSAYS

The Unstitched Curriculum

Luis Camnitzer

Venue: Online

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

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

Paulo Freire

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

EMERITUS

Oaxaca: A Framework where the Community Happens

Jaime Ruiz Martínez

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

MAPPINGS

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

Mónica Amieva

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

ESSAYS

The Studio Is Inside Your Head

Nayari Castillo

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

#Arte Conceptual #Arte de acción #Arte Público #Performance #Cuerpo

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

Know-How-to-Live in the Ruins

Luiza Proença

It was not a matter of aestheticizing the ruin or regeneration through certain cultural humanism, but rather a form of resistance that paid attention ... read more

ESSAYS

Evening the Scales: Felipe Ehrenberg and the Pedagogies of Cooperation

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

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 ... read more

MAPPINGS

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

Cristina Ribas

ESSAYS

Gego

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

EMERITUS

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

What if We Think (about Ourselves) Together?

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

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

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

We Are Not the Only Kind of We

Cayo Honorato

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MAPPINGS

Working the Body and Studying as Forms of Combat

Débora Oelsner Lopes

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ESSAYS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saber-viver nas ruínas

Luiza Proença

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ESSAYS

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

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

An Indissoluble Vital Commitment

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

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

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

Our Stories Tell Us About Where We Come From

Luis Romero

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

CONVERSATIONS

We Are Not the Only Kind of We

Cayo Honorato

(…) considering particularly what has been called the ontological or vegetal turn in the humanities. The examples of projects and practices that will ... read more

MAPPINGS

Experience an Instant with Reality

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

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

Redefining Creativity

Sebastián Vidal Mackinson

'Introduction…' It emerged in the context of the last post-dictatorship period in Argentina as a tool with which to begin to heal the civil trauma of ... read more

ESSAYS

A Precarious Education in the Creative Sense

Cecilia Vicuña

Venue: Entrevista

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

CONVERSATIONS

Lygia Clark

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

EMERITUS

"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

Language and Existence

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

Participatory Art as an Educational Act

Katherine Chacón

The participation of the viewer was a way to create a space for sensitive interactions that might enable a change in our way of being in the world, ... 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

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

The Party as a Space for Reflection

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

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

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

Artistic Teaching: An Act in the Present

Agustín Díez Fischer

This relationship between teaching and art is also apparent in her position on the history of art. Far from the avant-garde position that supposes a ... read more

ESSAYS

Where there Are Problems, there Are No Borders

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

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

Suspenssion

Adrián Balseca

Venue: Ciudad de México, México

Formative project developed in partnership with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), through the Cátedra Extraordinaria Helen Escobedo of ... read more

CLASSROOMS

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

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

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

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

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

Lygia Pape, Professor: Pedagogical Practices as Artistic Practices

Michelle Farias Sommer

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

ESSAYS

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

Villanueva the Architect, the Teacher, and the 'Teaching Notes'

Maciá Pintó

If the University City of Caracas and the Faculty of Architecture can be considered true lessons in urbanism and architecture from which things can ... read more

ESSAYS

Lina Bo Bardi

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

EMERITUS

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

Artivisms for the Body, Territory and Survival

Brian Smith

A selection of examples of artivism from Argentina, Chile and Mexico, which work with practices of mis-education and radical imagination, employing ... 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

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

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

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, are founded upon an intense desire ... read more

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

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

Roberto Valcárcel

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

EMERITUS

Learning from the Outside

Gerardo Zavarce

Venue: Berlin

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

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 Naked Teacher

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

Field Research: #EducaciónArte

Rodolfo Andaur

The majority of these collective and collaborative research nuclei have emerged, principally, as a result of the precariousness of resources for the ... read more

MAPPINGS

Learning to Bring Down Walls

Mónica Mayer

Venue: Entrevista

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

Art and Education Are Enriched if they Assume Responsibilities

Luis Camnitzer

Venue: Entrevista

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

CONVERSATIONS

Education as a System of Freedom

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

Frantz Fanon

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

EMERITUS

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

Cristina Ribas

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ESSAYS