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04/11/2024 — 06/01/2024
NEWS
The artistic and pedagogical legacy of Venezuelan-German artist Gego is reactivated in a contemporary light in Collective Reticulárea: Communal Cartographies. This participatory project conceived by artist Miguel Braceli proposes a meeting and learning space around collaboration, weaving networks, and the affective ... read more -
04/18/2024
NEWS
Within the framework of exploring art-architecture-education relationships as a strategy to improve common living conditions, and to think up different ways of designing schools from the creative interaction with local environments, LA ESCUELA___ received more than 200 projects for “ Construir Escuelas___Espacios ... read more -
05/21/2024 — 05/31/2024
RESIDENCIES
A través de diferentes dispositivos objetuales de exploración, pondremos en tensión la vida de los objetos cotidianos en el entorno de la creación y la posibilidad de mirarlos como entes cargados de memoria, de archivos sensibles y afectivos que pueden llevarnos a la escritura con y desde el cuerpo, a pensar el ... read more -
04/05/2024 — 05/05/2024
RESIDENCIES
Necessary Constellations is a proposal that seeks to close the gap between artistic practices, science and technologies in the Sonoran Desert, with the intent of dynamizing the practice of research and sensible production from a Latin American and interplanetary perspective. read more -
04/16/2024 — 04/30/2024
LABORATORIES
This LABORATORY emerges as a backlash against hegemonic strategies that seek to control these societies, trying out other ways of giving instructions that lead to individuals arriving at the conceptual space of “participant-work.” The goal is to defy sensory processes inherited from artistic movements and researchers ... read more -
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 -
12/12/2023 — 12/12/2023
CLASSROOMS
Conclusions of the series of formative projects carried out under the curatorship of Javier Vera Cubas, based on the exchange in popular neighborhoods of Lima, Bogota and Quito. read more -
11/30/2023 — 11/30/2023
CLASSROOMS
Conclusions on the formative projects developed by of the Noqanchis Collective (integrated by Alipio Melo, Danitza Willka and María José Murillo ); the Grupo Silät (represented by Andrei Fernández, Claudia Alarcón and Guido Yannitto ), and a collaboration from Guatemala between Hellen Ascoli, Luisa González-Reiche and ... read more -
03/01/2024
CONVERSATIONS
In this interview for LA ESCUELA___, curator Madeline Murphy Turner talks with multidisciplinary artist Laura Anderson Barbata about her practice deeply connected to education, the creation of horizontal structures of dialogue and collaboration, and a commitment to artistic research as a method of accessing, ... read more -
02/09/2024
CONVERSATIONS
Warmi Muyu is a collective of women artists from different indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Colombia, including the Kichwa people settled in the northern highlands of Ecuador and the Inga-Kamentsa people located in Putumayo Colombia. They understand art as a possibility to transform, propose and create new ... read more -
03/17/2024
ESSAYS
Juana Belén was the first female independent thinker and a precursor of the Mexican Revolution. [...] Despite her restless struggle, her name and political activity are never mentioned in mainstream history books. [...] To learn and know about her life and work, we must know how to research through feminist scholars ... read more -
03/16/2024
ESSAYS
The AAVJ not only articulates Ana Victoria Jiménez's militant activity, her interest in photography, publishing and performance, but also documents the broad collaborative networks of activists and visual artists in which she participated [...] —including groups of women who did not call themselves “feminists” or even ... read more -
03/20/2024
PRACTICES
Ruta 4 Taller is an academic platform and a moving research space based in the city of Pereira, Colombia. Drawing from experimentations with matter, explorations on processes, collective provocations, and affective connections to the landscape, they develop strategies for bridging symbolic representations of the ... read more -
02/16/2024
CONVERSATIONS
He is co-founder of Supersudaca, an international group of reflection and urban research and architecture, and of Susuka, the practical version of architecture in Chile. He is co-affiliated with the sound and space project Sindicato de Urbanistas Planetarios. He is currently dean of the Faculty of Architecture, ... read more -
02/12/2024
PRACTICES
Their practice is based on a continuous redefinition of the collective dimension, proposing actions that generate courteous cohabitation and processes of knowledge transmission. 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
03/21/2024
MAPPINGS
Education and pedagogy then become places that cultivate that vulnerability and collective openness as starting points for putting thought into a state of rebellion, that is, as starting points for pedagogy to transform into emancipatory practice. 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 -
11/07/2022
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 -
08/14/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Among these, we find Ronald Duarte (Barra Mansa, Brazil, 1963), artist and curator, whose micro-political strategies take over public space through interventions filled with poetry and symbolism. From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Duarte talks with La Escuela ___ in order to help us understand the experiences ... 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