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03/08/2024 — 04/08/2024
RESIDENCIES
Bajo un interés compartido, esta residencia busca acercar el arte y la educación a lugares específicos a través de temas que aborden desafíos sociales, políticos o ambientales en distintas regiones de las Américas y que además, ofrezcan espacios a perspectivas diversas de aprendizaje y modelos educativos a partir de ... read more -
12/05/2023 — 12/14/2023
LABORATORIES
Walking with the elders, mambear: this word has been the critical pedagogy of the use of art as a form of territorial justice, toward the harmonization of the elder spirits of Abya-Yala, the colonial symbols that modernity has imposed on our territories. read more -
05/01/2023 — 07/31/2023
CLASSROOMS
The participating architects and artists will work hand in hand in collaboration with children, teachers, and neighbors. Each will work in their respective context on a different scale, trying to understand and dissolve the rigid walls that separate the school from the street and the territory. read more
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11/14/2023 — 03/31/2024
CLASSROOMS
Based on an international open call and an educational program, this CLASSROOM proposes to build a Collective Reticulárea, understanding it as a meeting and learning space around collaboration, weaving networks, and the bonds between art and the territory, addressing issues of migrations, diasporas, and displacements ... read more -
11/27/2023 — 12/10/2023
CLASSROOMS
The CLASSROOM proposed by Sol Calero in collaboration with Heysell Leal is conceived of as an exploration around the "dance of an architecture": taking architectural concepts such as column, arch, and window as a point of departure, the exercises and practices carried out with architecture and live arts students ... read more -
11/20/2023
ESSAYS
Because of the scope of her legacy, [...] it is urgent to analyze and reflect on her teaching contributions, since it is in this integral space where we can multiply the essence of her knowledge and perpetuate her spirit. read more -
10/14/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Gego (1912–1994) was a German-Venezuelan artist, architect, and designer who gained international recognition with her large-format spatial installations. She is considered one of the most representative artists of 20th-century abstraction in Latin America. Parallel to her artistic work, Gego developed a particular ... read more -
11/27/2023
CLASSROOMS
Formative projects conceived collectively through exchanges among weaving artists, artists with training in fine arts, and cultural agents from Argentina, Guatemala, and Peru, based on formats that encourage co-authorship and artistic experimentation. read more -
10/21/2023 — 11/10/2023
RESIDENCIES
Art and education residency organized by LA ESCUELA___ together with Lugar a Dudas, with the participation of Brazilian collective Ateliê Vivo, integrated by Carolina Cherubini, Flávia Lobo de Felício, Gabriela Cherubini y Andrea Guerra. read more -
11/16/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Guilherme Wisnik is a renowned Brazilian architect, architectural critic, writer and professor. He is known for his work at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and culture, as well as for his academic work, critical writings, and contributions to cultural and artistic debate. Wisnik has been a professor at the ... read more -
11/01/2023
CONVERSATIONS
He was director of the School of Architecture, dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts, head of the doctoral program, and director of the Cultural Heritage program. He has developed and published extensive research on 20th-century Chilean architecture and is co-author of the fundamental book Los hechos de la ... read more -
07/11/2023
ESSAYS
If the Ciudad Universitaria and the Faculty of Architecture can be considered true classes of urban planning and architecture from which to draw lessons, the "Teaching Notes" open a door to a new reading of Villanueva and his work. [...] They represent a valuable pedagogical instrument because of their content, ... read more -
05/12/2023
PRACTICES
Based in Quito, Ecuador, and directed by Marie Combette and Daniel Moreno Flores, La Cabina de la Curiosidad is a traveling laboratory that includes art, craftsmanship, architectural design, territorial awareness, landscape, environmental processes, pedagogy and teaching, construction, rehabilitation, and management. ... read more -
05/02/2023 — 05/12/2023
CLASSROOMS
Formative project developed in alliance with Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Campus Alto Paraná in Paraguay, with the participation of professors and students of the Architecture program. read more -
11/14/2023
ESSAYS
If the goal 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 so-called "disorder" of the time, the EAV became an unrelenting powerhouse of artistic production, in tune with the transformations that would mark the second half of the ... read more -
10/16/2023
ESSAYS
The emancipatory, dialogic, and experimental character of Celeida Tostes' pedagogy and its intertwining with her artistic practice remains one of the most radical examples of art education in Brazil [...] She did not seek to inculcate aesthetic standards in the students, but to help each one find their own language in ... read more -
05/16/2022
ESSAYS
Teaching was the opportunity that Helio Eichbauer seized as a way to reduce his activity as a scenographer, and thereby gain some protection from the adversities of that historical moment while continuing to develop his creative and poetic drive, together with his students. read more -
10/12/2023
MAPPINGS
For this mapping, I will talk about four projects: Bruma laboratoria, Ensayo en Sitio, Vivero de Tebanca’s Topote de Acahual, and A la Vera Editorial [...] groups that work with self-education and the questioning of the colonizing forms of progress and order imposed during the last century. read more -
10/03/2023
MAPPINGS
Since the so-called 'indigenous awakening,' the people of the communities have established new routes of defense, production, and reproduction of communal community life. This has given rise to attempts to make new scientific paths and generate what could be called a communal epistemology. read more -
07/13/2022
MAPPINGS
From that confused and polarized atmosphere, arose new imageries to address the public realm, forms of protest, and the quest for self-management. From 2006 emerged a shared effort to renew the artistic social framework, which could no longer continue to rely on heroes or institutions, turning to networks of support, ... read more -
07/17/2023 — 07/31/2023
RESIDENCIES
The project consists of a space for building bonds of solidarity between groups of teachers and students from Guadalajara and surrounding areas. The workshop will seek to amplify educational justice initiatives that are currently taking place locally, and connect them to larger-scale social demands. read more -
10/01/2023
CONVERSATIONS
The work of the Chilean critic and essayist Nelly Richard has played a significant role in the reflexive formation of artists and scholars of the arts in the Americas. Although not directly involved in teaching, she has authored numerous publications and directed several spaces for critical thinking. In this ... read more -
06/15/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Fernanda Barreto (São Paulo, Brazil, 1988) is an artist, translator, and cultural manager interested in educational and pedagogical practices. Her research focuses on language within communication practices, collective enunciation, and social structures, making use of different media to answer them. read more -
09/22/2022
MAPPINGS
A selection of cases of artivism from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, which work with practices of un-education and radical imagination, using tools that destabilize the prevailing order from the arts and various aesthetic devices [...] they lead to develop radical imaginations that are capable of changing the living ... read more -
08/20/2023
MAPPINGS
Architecture, compared to other fields of knowledge, presents codes and procedures that are different from the common reference mechanisms of science. Normally, the production of knowledge requires the incorporation of previously developed theories, evidence, studies and experiences, these being the ones that define ... read more -
07/15/2023
MAPPINGS
As much as the school, architecture itself also served colonialism as a civilizing instrument, so, together with the Yanomami people, we were incited to think about how we could make it serve the interests of the communities. read more -
04/03/2023
MAPPINGS
How flexible and malleable can curating become in order to provoke a flux of ideas rather than reassert already established concepts? [...] What happens when curating is about being within live processes rather than relating through finished forms? read more -
06/06/2023
MAPPINGS
The term ‘(in)curate visualities’ attempts to approximate what is disclosed and what is still covered in artworks that touch on educational topics. [...] The artworks’ analysis will imply some of the reading possibilities [...] which invite viewers to the debate about education access and permanence in the Brazilian ... read more -
04/12/2023 — 05/06/2023
RESIDENCIES
Art and education residency organized by LA ESCUELA___ together with Lugar a Dudas, with the participation of Brazilian transdisciplinary artist and educator Renata Sampaio. read more -
08/06/2023
ESSAYS
The effort to give someone a face is an endless movement, an action that is not exhausted because that man represented would be a glimpse of the portrait of that king that does not circulate in a single body and emits echoes. read more -
04/14/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Beatriz González is considered one of the most influential figures in the Colombian art scene due to her incisive and lucid stance as a chronicler of her country's recent history. In addition to her extensive artistic career, González developed an important curatorial and pedagogical work from her role as ... read more -
04/11/2023
ESSAYS
Marta Traba's work in the country managed to combine art criticism with academic teaching, radio and television programs, magazine editing and exhibition management. She also contributed to the creation and direction of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogota. In addition, her work in favor of the internationalization of ... read more -
09/05/2022
ESSAYS
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 neglect or lose sight of the educational potential of the rest of his plastic work. (...) His insistence on distrusting novelty and thinking more of iteration as a model ... read more -
07/12/2023
CONVERSATIONS
danie valencia sepúlveda (Ayutla, Jalisco, Mexico, 1990) Herrorist, educator, researcher, cultural programmer, and independent translator. They initiated the Círculo Permanente de Estudios Independientes (CIPEI), a counter-pedagogical research platform that, among other projects, runs the ongoing de-formative course ... read more -
05/18/2023
MAPPINGS
What this type of recent art activism practices have raised through their interventions is the importance of disputing the mediations and infrastructures that constitute the fabric of the common [...] They are no longer epic actions (notably masculinist) that seek a radical revolution, but rather situated exercises ... read more -
08/08/2022
MAPPINGS
When thinking about education as a space for the exchange and expansion of perspectives, we must take into account the complexity of issues of opacity and visibility, given that both are strategically articulated in the history of humanity and have contributed to the world as we know it, where a scenario organized in ... read more -
02/13/2023 — 02/23/2023
CLASSROOMS
Formative project developed in alliance with Kiosko Galería with the participation of artists and art students from Santa Cruz de La Sierra and La Paz. read more -
12/08/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Lia Rodrigues (São Paulo, Brazil, 1956) is a Brazilian choreographer well-known for her social-critical and socially-charged pieces developed with the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças. She also founded the Panorama Festival and, since 2004, her Company is based in Rio de Janeiro’s favela da Maré, where she has been ... read more -
10/17/2022 — 10/25/2022
CLASSROOMS
Formative project developed in alliance with the Master in Performing Arts program of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, together with Mapa Teatro and Plural Nodo Cultural; with participation from students of the Faculty of Arts UNAL, and support from the University of California Santa Cruz and the Universidade do ... read more -
11/20/2022 — 12/04/2022
CLASSROOMS
Formative project developed in alliance with the Departamento de Artes del Movimiento of the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), El Asunto de lo Remoto – performance program – and Fundación Andreani in Argentina. read more -
11/07/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Miguel Rubio Zapata (Lima, Peru, 1951) is a Theater director, founding member and director of Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani. He proposes a theater of creation and research based on material produced by actors. His experience is based on research into Peruvian culture and its application in contemporary artistic ... read more -
04/09/2022
ESSAYS
The school that creates space for improvisation is also a school of subjectivity, of ways of life, of what one feels, of how one expresses what is being lived, and what needs to be transformed so that a life without oppressions can be lived. read more -
06/07/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Luis Camnitzer (Lübeck, Germany, 1937) is an Uruguayan conceptual artist, teacher, and theorist whose work is essential for understanding the relationship between art and education. Based in New York (USA) since the 1980s, Camnitzer has reflected on, developed, and directed numerous projects in which the boundaries ... read more -
04/08/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Ricardo Basbaum (São Paulo, 1961) is a Brazilian visual artist and writer, known for his experiments and research on art as a mediating device for expressing sensorial, social and linguistic experiences. His work, characterized by the use of diagrams, drawings and installations, transforms exhibition spaces into ... read more -
03/01/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago, Chile, 1948) is a visual artist and poet who has explored issues related to nature, ancestral knowledge, and feminism throughout her extensive career. Based in New York City (USA), Vicuña preserves and shares deep wisdom about her indigenous roots, as well as experiences gathered ... read more -
03/08/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Anna Bella Geiger (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1933): multidisciplinary artist and professor of Polish-Jewish ancestry and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She is widely known both for her early abstract works and for her pioneering incursions into video art and installation, as well as for her ... read more -
06/13/2022
ESSAYS
Defining herself as "intrinsically an anarchist," her pedagogical practices followed the same direction: they vindicated unrestricted freedom for creation and were based on a "deconditioning" of teaching towards entering "states of invention." read more -
06/08/2022
MAPPINGS
Art as action could be liberated from pedestals, frames or buildings and intertwined with life, affecting and being affected by the everydayness of the world. The experiential and political dimension of such walking and dislocation resonates in various artistic practices in the 1960s and 70s. read more -
10/10/2022 — 10/22/2022
RESIDENCIES
The project is conceived as an exploration guided by the presence of water in the city of Guadalajara, both from its memories in the ecosystem and the construction of the landscape, as well as its poetic and political dimension in the current urban life. It also seeks to value the importance of water for life, ... read more -
05/13/2022
MAPPINGS
(…) considering particularly what has been called the ontological or vegetal turn in the humanities. The examples of projects and practices that will be commented on briefly are divided into three “categories,” which seek to provisionally situate different types of relationships between humans and non-humans. read more -
08/20/2022
PRACTICES
The NOMASMETAFORAS collective, integrated by Clara Melniczuk and Julián Dupont, works in the fields of contemporary art and experimental thought between France and Colombia. Committed to the indigenous knowledge of the Cauca region in Colombia, their artistic practice is developed by activating spaces of ... read more