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06/14/2023
AUDITORIUM
In this AUDITORIUM session, Handel Guayasamín shares with LA ESCUELA___ an approach to the thinking and works of his studio Handel Guayasamín, Arquitectos, through the defining conceptual axes that place it within the context of the region and over time (years 1980-2020). Their creative experience, the academic ... read more -
06/29/2023 — 07/13/2023
LABORATORIES
The Laboratory (A)nto-biography: Practices of Food Care is conceived of as an expanded stove to other kitchens and tables where we weave affections and elevate desires and sensations stored in personal, family, and collective memories. 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
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05/17/2023
CONVERSATIONS
His work encourages a reconnection with the land, to be critical of architecture, and to transform it with a sense of Latin American belonging. Guayasamín is currently executive director of the Network of Latin American Architecture Biennials (REDBAAL) and the Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture ... 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 -
06/10/2023
MAPPINGS
Several movements and schools with a strong local imprint are arising in the Paraguayan cultural scene. They are developing unprecedented products and translating local language into a universal language. 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 -
11/07/2022
ESSAYS
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 also contemplate imagination as a strategic field of destruction, resignification and invention situated within our struggle of low intensity and micropolitical scale. read more -
03/07/2022
ESSAYS
The artistic work of Antonieta Sosa has the dialogic mode—expressed or implied—among its frequent resources, with a circulation and dynamic exchange of ideas through which two or more beings acknowledge, identify or confront each other. It is a very personal method towards the progressive constitution of a work and, ... read more -
05/08/2023
MAPPINGS
Who has forged and shaped the referents (and possibly the canon) of Venezuelan art? [...] We will attempt to map possible indications of the establishment of a canon through the most influential referents, questioning the place given to art produced by women (and its themes) within that "canon." 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 -
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 -
04/01/2023
ESSAYS
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 between teacher, students and public? What would be the privileged scenario? If a traditional, academic, standardized, and quantified result was not desired, the space of ... 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
06/22/2022
AUDITORIUM
In this session of AUDITORIUM, Luis Camnitzer will share his reflections and concerns in regard to the current educational systems of art: What do artists need to know and how should they learn it? What is the meaning of an art school today? 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 -
05/10/2023
ESSAYS
The Pernian praxis is today synonymous with the multidisciplinary, and the development of his vast photographic and conceptualist work was intertwined with his teaching practice [...] as well as with his research on photography and the creation of a public policy for the visual documentation of the country. 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 -
06/16/2022
PRACTICES
José Luis Macas Paredes (Quito, Ecuador, 1983) is a visual artist, professor, and researcher whose practice integrates the specificities and the poetics of territories in site-time-specific actions. In his work, he applies the indigenous Andean concepts of pacha (space-time), tinku (proportional encounter), and ... 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 -
03/09/2022
AUDITORIUM
For the opening session of the AUDITORIUM, Cecilia Vicuña will share with La Escuela ___ her reflections on the process of decolonizing thought through language and orality. read more -
12/01/2022 — 12/12/2022
CLASSROOMS
Body, pedagogy, and the public space—three notions that articulate LA ESCUELA___’s Classrooms program—gain a singular meaning in the propositions of Benvenuto Chavajay, Jessica Briceño Cisneros, and María José Machado Gutiérrez, framed in the project "Configuring Space: Body, Land, and ... 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 -
01/26/2023
CONVERSATIONS
We talked with Sara about her interests in expanding curatorial practices that extend beyond exhibition-making, and as a site for the construction of collective knowledge through encouraging visual encounters. This conversation is an invitation to ask ourselves how artistic and curatorial practices help us repair, ... read more