LABORATORY: Soil Analysis Laboratory, with Andrés Pereira Paz

Soil Analysis Laboratory

past

Online

2022—II

10/18/2022 — 11/10/2022

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.

Andrés Pereira Paz: "Taypi" (2021). Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev. Courtesy: Andrés Pereira Paz.

"In the current landscape of art and education, there seems to be a need to complexify the language used for talking about the work of art. Contrary to the demands of this drive, the Laboratory intends for each participant to develop a language of their own, made of their words, and enunciated from their life experiences, not eluding vulnerability, subjectivity, and emotions."

Andrés Pereira Paz

Conceived as a mapping of the DNA of the participating artists' work, the sessions will delve into inner and outer universes through dialogue, methodically identifying the elements that activate their interest as creative individuals.

We will take each student’s life experience as a starting point to identify the guiding lines that propel and orient their practice, using the intuitive resources that artists apply when making art as a basis. We will assign names and categories to things, in order to develop a customized toolbox based on each personal cosmos.

The Soil Analysis Laboratory contemplates 8 online meeting sessions, organized as follows:

Session 1: Course overview and introduction of the participants.

Session 2: Drawing meditation. Collective presentation of the things that draw the lines of our field of work.

Session 3: Sound meditation. Categorization of the things that resonate with and in our work.

Session 4: Meditation on space. Presentation of the spaces that make up our work.

Session 5: Guest artist: Ad Minoliti. Anti-meditation on blank paper. Presentation of all the edges that shape our work.

Session 6: Guest artist: Fernanda Barreto. Presentation of final images of the guest's work. Presentation of works made by the participating artists.

Session 7: Guest artist: Eliana Otta. Presentation of final places of the guest's work. Presentation of works made by the participating artists.

Session 8: Guest artist: Patricia Dominguez. Collective meditation on mind, body, and space. Creating an “exquisite corpse” with words and images.

Andrés Pereira Paz: “Radio Carabuco” (2019-2020). Künstlerhaus Betthanien, Berlin . Courtesy: Andrés Pereira Paz.

Andrés Pereira Paz: "Journey of the anonymous" (2019). House of Egorn, Berlin. Courtesy: Andrés Pereira Paz.

Participation

The Soil Analysis Laboratory is a free formative program open to artists and students interested in creative educational processes, who are willing to experiment with non-linear creation methodologies. LA ESCUELA___ will make a selection from the applications received through the participation form.

8 sessions
October 4 through 29, 2022
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 PM (GMT -4)
Via Zoom

This Laboratory will be conducted in Spanish

Andrés Pereira Paz: “Yo fortifico sus columnas” [I fortify your columns], at the 11th Berlin Biennial (2019-2020). Courtesy: Andrés Pereira Paz.

Andrés Pereira Paz
(La Paz, Bolivia, 1986) Artist. Lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. He has extensively exhibited across Latin America, USA, and Europe. Recently, his works have been featured at the ''Future Generation Art Prize'' (Kiev); Art Basel Statements; Brunand Brunand Gallery (Berlin); the 11th Berlin Biennale; Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin); The Ryder Projects and Gasworks (London); Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga); Kinderhook & Caracas (Berlin); National Museum of Art (La Paz); Second Grand Tropical Biennale (San Juan de Puerto Rico), among others. His works are included in public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, KADIST San Francisco, and Instituto Alumnos (Mexico). Pereira Paz is represented by Brunand Brunand in Berlin, 80m2 Livia Benavides in Lima, and Isla Flotante in Buenos Aires.