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06/09/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Dedicated to the study of performance art in Mexico and Latin America, Mexican researcher Josefina Alcázar has published numerous books and articles on the subject. In this interview, she offers us her point of view on the formation of performance artists, identifying some of their main motivations and areas of ... read more -
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 -
05/10/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Composed of filmmakers, visual artists, and communicators from various Amazonian, Andean, and mestizo cultures, TAWNA seeks to connect audiovisual narratives from the socio-cultural, environmental, and dream worlds. read more -
05/10/2023
CONVERSATIONS
In this interview, he also meditates on the transversal aspects crossing the concepts of art, education, and ethics—an idea anticipated in the cosmovision of Guarani peoples. In a world that leans toward "the commodification and trivialization of visual culture," Escobar questions the models that "leave aside the ... read more -
05/09/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Trauma Interdisciplina is a transdisciplinary art collective currently based in the city of Morelia, Michoacán. Trauma was born from the collaboration between Rosario Romero and José Luis García Nava, with the aim of carrying out experimentation, research, and transdisciplinary artistic productions in a ... read more -
04/21/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Since 2008, it has unfolded as a collective dedicated to electronic (analog) experimentation, both sonically and visually, in its different ranges of possibilities, focusing on the development of projects that combine experimentation, artistic action, technologies, and open knowledge. read more -
04/20/2023
CONVERSATIONS
Furthermore, they are actively involved in educational projects for the local community and other various cultural projects that take place in the rural village of Umecuaro. La Coyotera also offers a residency program for professional artists to work on their art projects, with a residency cabin and studio available ... read more -
04/19/2023
CONVERSATIONS
With agile and controversial ideas, curator, writer, artist and professor José Luis Falconi addresses in this interview several issues of high sensitivity for today's art and education. Falconi advocates for an "expanded pedagogy," not only for teaching art, but incorporated into other disciplines as a tool for ... 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
06/07/2022
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 -
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 -
05/12/2022
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 -
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 -
04/15/2022
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 -
04/08/2022
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 -
03/18/2022
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 -
03/01/2022
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