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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 -
04/06/2023
AUDITORIUM
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 Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, the landscape of education in 1980s Brazil, and the relevance of her training program Atividade Criatividade for artistic practices in ... read more -
04/20/2023 — 05/04/2023
LABORATORIES
Through critical reflection, the laboratory intends to create dispersed cartographies and interventions around public spaces. We will attempt to create a militant memorial exercise to commemorate the people who defend the lands and waters of Latin America. read more
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03/07/2023 — 03/21/2023
LABORATORIES
An exercise in social choreography and empathy. Chilean dancer, choreographer, and researcher Varinia Canto Vila proposes a space for exploring the relationships between law, rules, and movement. read more -
03/06/2023
ESSAYS
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 "awaken the spectator from his lethargy and passivity before life [...] and, likewise, to enable the emergence] of a better way of thinking, feeling and loving.” 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 -
02/02/2023
ESSAYS
Fragmenting machismo means co-creating a psychodiversity and a diversity of ways of expressing masculinities from the point of view of a relational and processual poetics [...] this essay is a first approach to the implementation of such fragmentation through the dramatic-pedagogical tools of the Brazilian playwright ... read more -
12/14/2022
AUDITORIUM
In this session of AUDITORIUM, Lia Rodrigues shares with LA ESCUELA___ her reflections on creative processes based on syntropic farming, whose principle is to create more life and soil fertility by increasing biodiversity and, therefore, the possibility for coexistence and mutual aid among different species. read more -
12/06/2022
ESSAYS
Implicit in Valcárcel's proposal for a movement that summons creativity to contribute to the construction of a more democratic society, is a new relationship between creativity and politics. This proposal is articulated out of his rejection of the association between artist and genius or virtuosity, [...] because he ... 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 -
11/29/2022 — 12/13/2022
LABORATORIES
Colombian artists and researchers Daniela Medina Poch and Elizabeth Gallon Droste propose a joint exploration and exchange aimed at generating dialogues, dynamics, and guidelines to reveal and disseminate aqualiteracy across Latin America. 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 -
11/16/2022
AUDITORIUM
In this session of AUDITORIUM, Miguel Rubio Zapata shares with LA ESCUELA___ his reflections concerning ancient Indigenous and contemporary theatricalities, with the aim of questioning the ways we understand them, to rethink the history of theatre in the Americas. 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 -
10/18/2022 — 11/10/2022
LABORATORIES
The Soil Analysis Laboratory is a space for reflection and self-knowledge conducted by Bolivian artist Andrés Pereira Paz, focused on generating resources for artistic research. 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 -
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 -
10/04/2022
ESSAYS
The notion of 'public art' understood as a transformative and revolutionary vehicle, at the service of society, is central to understanding his work—his life, as much as his production, is articulated by this precept. read more -
09/20/2022 — 10/01/2022
LABORATORIES
This laboratory seeks to manipulate linguistic and formal instances present in the Latin American macro-political environment, in an attempt to uncover clues and possible exits for the current choreographies of political participation. It also aims to experiment with working procedures that can systematize a possible ... read more -
09/12/2022 — 12/14/2022
CLASSROOMS
Formative projects conceived as devices for collective making and learning. To be developed under the curatorial coordination of Félix Suazo. 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 -
08/26/2022
ESSAYS
It was not a matter of aestheticizing the ruin or regeneration through certain cultural humanism, but rather a form of resistance that paid attention to the life that grows in the interstices of places where destruction seems to be all there is (...) read more -
08/10/2022
ESSAYS
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 rights violations (...) Resituating this method today could prove interesting for restoring the social and affective bonds that have been highly stressed due to the Covid-19 ... read more -
07/30/2022 — 08/03/2022
CLASSROOMS
Formative project developed at CAMP notes on education at documenta fifteen by La Escuela ___. read more -
07/25/2022
ESSAYS
The Schools of A’cani enable us to reimagine the naturalized limits between art, activism, education and what we understand by democratization, cultural rights, social relevance, emancipation, self-determination, solidarity, collaboration, public policy and collective construction. read more -
07/11/2022
ESSAYS
In Colmenárez's work, breaking with the asymmetries of power relationships becomes a recurring sign. The artwork is an excuse for holding a dialogue, an event that will allow the individual to dissolve into the collective: there is communication and communion. read more -
06/28/2022 — 07/12/2022
LABORATORIES
This laboratory aims to reclaim, recognize, and recover subalternized knowledge and strategies of experimental and radical activist practices in Abya Yala, through an ‘affective activation’ conceived from contemporary practices. 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 -
06/20/2022 — 06/27/2022
CLASSROOMS
Formative project developed in collaboration with Ciudad Abierta and the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV), with participation from professors and students of the School of Architecture and Design and from the Film School of the University of Valparaíso (UV). 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 -
06/06/2022
ESSAYS
That relationship between teaching and art is also apparent in her approach to art history. Far removed from avant-garde positions that suppose a break with the past, Paksa would define artists as “devourers of images” who are able to build upon the appropriation and parodying of elements taken from visual culture. 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 -
05/11/2022
AUDITORIUM
In this AUDITORIUM session, Mónica Mayer shares with LA ESCUELA___ her reflections on the patriarchal dynamics present in public spaces, her struggle as an artist against the 'cobwebs' of the system and her experience in the creation of feminist spaces of support and education. read more -
05/10/2022 — 05/19/2022
LABORATORIES
This laboratory aims to address the creation of artworks from intuitive, non-rational matrixes, through exercises that strengthen the expansive/fractal energetic center of the participants. read more -
05/04/2022
ESSAYS
Dialoguing with her texts implies going through fundamental issues to think ourselves, individually and collectively, about the role of women; the ethical and political position of teachers; the implications of valuing the land, the local and the indigenous; immigration; the importance of childhood [...] Such matters ... read more -
04/24/2022 — 05/07/2022
CLASSROOMS
Both parts of the project aimed to evidence the microhistories of the mango and the tropics, to portray them in their signifying ambiguity and as colonizing identity elements of the Venezuelan imaginaries. Destabilizing their founding persistence was a key to accessing other ways of understanding the histories that ... read more -
04/24/2022 — 05/07/2022
CLASSROOMS
Formative project developed in partnership with Goethe-Institut Venezuela, in collaboration with Fundación Espacio and Espacio Proyecto Libertad, with participation from professors and students of Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Simón Bolívar and Universidad de Los Andes. read more -
04/20/2022
AUDITORIUM
In this AUDITORIUM session, Ricardo Basbaum shares with LA ESCUELA___ his reflections on the complexities implicit in the relationships that arise in the process of making a participatory artwork, and how the insertion of questions, obstacles and doubts destabilizes the process of reading what is traditionally ... read more -
04/11/2022 — 04/15/2022
LABORATORIES
This laboratory seeks to build a collective dramaturgy that allows reflection on the school as a micro and macro political territory, based on the notions of the intimate and the public, the oppositions between representation and presentation, and the relationships between conflict and aesthetics. 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 -
04/04/2022
ESSAYS
“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 between those who speak and those who observe”, Ehrenberg pondered at the end of the same text in which he suggests that educators must lead and accompany the critical ... read more -
03/21/2022
ESSAYS
Schools must be naked, all their walls demolished to keep their structure, leaving only what is essential. They would then be buildings without facades, fully exposed to reality. They would get wet, dirty, and impregnated with their contexts; they would shake without collapsing, they would inhabit experiences that ... read more -
03/10/2022 — 03/24/2022
LABORATORIES
This laboratory proposes to carry out a series of writing exercises that take place during the act of walking. Conceived as a peripatetic 1 school, from individual and distant experiences, it will seek to build a constellation of texts on collective learning. 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 -
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 -
02/21/2022
ESSAYS
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 (we will stop at that later), and which also included his years of travel, classes and readings (...) read more