A space organized around the intersections of art and education. The Library houses artistic and pedagogical resources produced by La Escuela___ in collaboration with diverse researchers, artists, and educators to connect knowledge and experiences across Latin America.
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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 -
09/12/2022
PRACTICES
Founded in 2014, Galería MUY (GaleMUY) is an arts space formed by a collective of Mayan and Zoque creatives of Chiapas, Mexico. Based in San Cristóbal de las Casas, the GaleMUY has temporary and permanent exhibits and disseminates art in communities in Indigenous territories of the state. Here are collectivized ... read more -
09/09/2022
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These initiatives are proposed as a place of life and production of subjectivities, impulse and energy in the face of the epistemological opening that we are experiencing at a global level [...] to stop commodifying knowledge as something which is possible to possess, and to work from a position of non-knowing. read more -
09/08/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Antonieta Sosa (1940, Venezuelan, New York) is a conceptual artist who addressed pedagogy as a social, ethical, and political action through her artistic practice, from a particular sensibility for the poetic and performative possibilities of space. With a special interest in the body as well as its expressions, ... 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
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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 -
08/22/2022
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The pedagogical programs of aesthetic thought in the region, conceived and managed by independent organizations, emerge from an intense desire to contribute to the emancipatory processes of the communities where each of them operates. 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
08/04/2022
PRACTICES
Jordi Ferreiro (Barcelona, Spain, 1982) is an artist and educator who enjoys to shake and disrupt structures. Focused on performance and audience participation, his work seeks to analyze the bureaucratic spaces responsible for managing knowledge, shaping what we understand as ‘culture’ and regulating the way we ... read more -
07/25/2022
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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 -
07/20/2022
MAPPINGS
Most of these collective and collaborative research hubs have surfaced mainly because of the scarce resources for managing new ventures and the lack of specialized training in critical studies in the visual arts field. In this sense, the education and art perspective has enabled an in-depth re-exploration of the ... read more -
07/15/2022
PRACTICES
Ana Laura López de la Torre (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1969) is an artist, writer and educator. Her work is developed at a community level seeking to contribute to the defense and construction of common goods, stimulating the exercise of generosity, collaboration and exchange. For the Library of Practices, Ana ... read more -
07/13/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Silvano Lora (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1931 — 2003) was a painter, sculptor, cultural manager, and pioneer of performance and social art in his country. He is a key figure in twentieth-century Dominican history, both for the formal and aesthetic contributions of his plastic work and his social criticism and ... 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 -
07/11/2022
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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 -
06/24/2022
PRACTICES
Felipe Rivas San Martín (Valdivia, Chile, 1982) is a visual artist, essayist, and sexual dissidence activist. His practice emerges from the crossings between queer activism, archive politics, decoloniality, and technology through mediums such as video performance, painting, installation, and cultural criticism, ... read more -
06/18/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Diego Barboza (1945–2003) was a pioneer of Venezuelan action art, known for his expressions in public spaces carried out in several cities around the world in the 1970s. His words, conveying and persuasive, are 'activated' on this occasion in a conversation between La Escuela ___ and Marialejandra Maza , a ... read more -
06/16/2022
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What methodologies and structures for teaching and learning about art are maintained today in academic circles? In this world, what is the relationship between knowledge and practices? What interactions do the worlds of the university and academia establish with the social, political and cultural context? 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 -
06/13/2022
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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 -
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 -
06/06/2022
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 -
05/31/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Artist, architect, and educator Miguel Braceli speaks with the curator, educator, and researcher Sofía Olascoaga to elaborate on the pedagogical framework of La Escuela ___ . The conversation unfolds some of the platform’s structural elements, including the Latin American context it seeks to ... read more -
05/18/2022
PRACTICES
Patricia Domínguez (Santiago, Chile, 1984) is an artist, educator, and advocate of the living. Her artistic work organically intertwines with her educational work; both are threaded by an experimental research on ethnobotany, healing practices, and the corporatization of wellness. Since 2014, she runs the ... 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 -
05/13/2022
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(…) 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 -
05/12/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1923 — Paris, France, 2019) was a contemporary artist, regarded as one of the key 20th-century researchers in the realm of color. Many of his works of monumental proportions are placed in urban public spaces around the world. He was also a fantastic teacher, who transmitted his ... read more -
05/05/2022
CONVERSATIONS
Mónica Mayer (Mexico City, 1954) is a Mexican visual artist and feminist activist, known for her conceptual work and her performances that address the role of women in society. Her work has made her a reference point within the art world of the continent, thanks to a feminist approach calculated to make history ... read more -
05/05/2022
PRACTICES
Ernesto Rivera is a Dominican artist based in New York. His work moves through different formats, materials, and techniques; using a fragmentary methodology, he follows traces and unfinished processes. His expressive drive pushes his works along allusive and intuitive paths taking the form of drawings, installations, ... read more -
05/04/2022
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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 -
05/03/2022
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When I talk about exploring and mapping, I also mean getting out of the way and getting lost. Ahead in this text, I offer three provocations (projects) to awaken your imagination: to identify forms of cultural programming with bonds to sex-dissident communities; to modify the ways of being together in order to sustain ... read more -
04/25/2022
PRACTICES
La Ruidosa Oficina is an artistic and cultural management and mediation collective based in Costa Rica, which uses the festive dynamics of coming together in joint learning. Its transdisciplinary nature comes from the individual contributions of its members, Marga Sequeira , Catalina Tenorio and Mariela Richmond , ... read more -
04/23/2022
PRACTICES
Esvin Alarcón Lam (Guatemala, 1988) is an artist whose work revolves around critical thinking about historical and political relations in dialogue with the displacements of people and materials. His projects involve different media such as sculpture, installation, photography, painting, sound, video, and ... read more -
04/21/2022
CONVERSATIONS
On this occasion, we spoke with a person whom Valcárcel recognized as a pupil and a great artist: María Galindo , a creator that moves away from established art schemes and categories to approach activism together with the women’s collective Mujeres Creando [Women Creating]. From La Paz, Bolivia, María talks ... read more -
04/17/2022
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To think of ways of linking the fields of art and education is to imagine possible strategies for modifying the established reproductive mechanism, a difficult task when the owners of knowledge have the means to affirm relations of power/knowledge and the possibility of setting aesthetic and pedagogical agendas ... read more -
04/15/2022
CONVERSATIONS
On this occasion, La Escuela ___ reflects on his lessons along with curator, researcher, and director of the El Pilar Foundation, Alex Brahim who, from Cúcuta, Colombia, shares his experiences with Caro in the Visual Creativity Workshops, his pending projects for Juntos Aparte, and the complexities of ... 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 -
04/06/2022
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Out of need or desire, those who put into practice a work that seeks to act from education are called to be bridges between artistic practice, cultural institutions, and audiences beyond the art world. This is the result of a fragile cultural institutional framework, which makes artists and cultural agents assume ... read more -
04/04/2022
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“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
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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 -
03/18/2022
CONVERSATIONS
In this conversation for LA ESCUELA, Luis Romero shares reflections and anecdotes of his relationship with Sheroanawe, which spans for over 20 years, intertwined with testimonies of his great artist friend. Thus, based on the premise of the term wëai : (teaching through example), LA ESCUELA___ talks with Sheroanawe ... read more -
03/10/2022
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This "provocation to thought" and the action that consequently occurs is something that we will see ahead in a selection of works by Cecilia Vicuña and Lea Lublin (...) How did the searches of these artists materialize around art and education? How did they dismantle the established ways of seeing? What is the role of ... read more -
03/07/2022
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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 -
03/05/2022
PRACTICES
Sebastián Calfuqueo (Santiago, Chile, 1991) is an artist of Mapuche origin whose work invites critical reflection on the social, cultural and political status of the indigenous subject within contemporary Chilean society. It is an approach marked by their pedagogical experience as an art teacher, and anchored ... 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 -
02/23/2022
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In the midst of the institutional transformations in the field of art education that have taken place in the continent, there have been some exceptional initiatives carried out by artists who propose a link between art and pedagogy beyond conventional spaces and programs, from their own practices as creators (...) read more -
02/21/2022
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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 -
CONVERSATIONS
Parallel to her artistic work, Gego developed a particular methodology in which she managed to combine the technical rigor of the Bauhaus heritage with the creative freedoms of art. This program was aimed at future architects and designers, among which was curator and researcher Ruth Auerbach . From Caracas, ... read more -
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The participation of the viewer was a way to create a space for sensitive interactions that might enable a change in our way of being in the world, in order to “awaken the viewer from their lethargy and their passivity in the face of life, (and, at the same time, enable the emergence) of a better way of thinking, ... read more -
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Celeida presents a unique way of inventing artistic communities and fostering students’ encounters with their reality and expressiveness. The structure of her teaching was based on her individual trajectory and perception, with a focus on the expressive development of the student; her method sought a connection ... read more -
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If the aim 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 period, the EAV became a ceaseless powerhouse of artistic production, in tune with the transformations that would mark the second half of the ... read more -
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The Art and Liberation Movement engaged in a number of interventions in marginal neighborhoods of the city, where exhibitions, recitals, murals, film forums, and theatrical presentations were organized. The group launched three manifestos, which in Silvano’s own words expressed the commitment of the artistic ... read more -
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If the University City of Caracas and the Faculty of Architecture can be considered true lessons in urbanism and architecture from which things can be learned, the “Teaching Notes” open a door for us to a new reading of Villanueva and his work […]. They constitute a valuable teaching tool due to their content, their ... read more