Essays and revisited documents that open new perspectives on the thinking and methodologies of fundamental authors for the relations between art and education at different points in history.
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03/17/2024
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Juana Belén was the first female independent thinker and a precursor of the Mexican Revolution. [...] Despite her restless struggle, her name and political activity are never mentioned in mainstream history books. [...] To learn and know about her life and work, we must know how to research through feminist scholars ... read more -
03/16/2024
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The AAVJ not only articulates Ana Victoria Jiménez's militant activity, her interest in photography, publishing and performance, but also documents the broad collaborative networks of activists and visual artists in which she participated [...] —including groups of women who did not call themselves “feminists” or even ... read more -
02/14/2024
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In her pioneering and innovative career, Marina Waisman intertwined teaching, research, and dissemination, understanding that these activities create a necessary synergy for the construction of a discipline situated in its time and context. read more -
11/23/2023
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This text draws from Monica Amor’s book Gego: Weaving the Space In Between, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. read more -
11/20/2023
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Because of the scope of her legacy, [...] it is urgent to analyze and reflect on her teaching contributions, since it is in this integral space where we can multiply the essence of her knowledge and perpetuate her spirit. read more -
11/14/2023
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If the goal 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 time, the EAV became an unrelenting powerhouse of artistic production, in tune with the transformations that would mark the second half of the ... read more -
10/16/2023
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The emancipatory, dialogic, and experimental character of Celeida Tostes' pedagogy and its intertwining with her artistic practice remains one of the most radical examples of art education in Brazil [...] She did not seek to inculcate aesthetic standards in the students, but to help each one find their own language in ... read more -
10/10/2023
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In the sound of what Illich calls 'communities of mumblers,’ we can hear forms of societies that are more flexible, more undisciplined, connected in less hierarchical ways, and more inclined to form what he also calls in Deschooling Society 'threads of learning.' read more -
08/18/2023
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The need to eliminate any vestige of the dictatorial ideology led him to summon intellectuals, poets and other artists to bring art, culture and thought to the peripheral neighborhoods of the city, under a maxim that would determine his cultural production forever: to change the spectator people into a creative people. read more -
08/06/2023
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The effort to give someone a face is an endless movement, an action that is not exhausted because that man represented would be a glimpse of the portrait of that king that does not circulate in a single body and emits echoes. read more -
07/13/2023
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Barriga's imprint has to do with ideas and postures, not with a style [...] It is only in the last two decades that research has been carried out that situates the importance of his work for the renewal of the artistic field, placing it as an antecedent of art, and community practices. read more -
07/11/2023
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If the Ciudad Universitaria and the Faculty of Architecture can be considered true classes of urban planning and architecture from which to draw lessons, the "Teaching Notes" open a door to a new reading of Villanueva and his work. [...] They represent a valuable pedagogical instrument because of their content, ... read more -
06/10/2023
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The notion of ‘transit-pedagogy' expresses a position on the relationship between the socio-economic, political and educational spheres that places him among those who disagree with the mechanistic views that distrust schools' democratizing role. read more -
06/02/2023
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The working proposal of the study group was to relate this terrestrial technology as a research method to generate knowledge [...] Thus, our meetings involved learning through composting technologies as a way to connect with regenerative dynamics from living materials. read more -
05/12/2023
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A career dedicated to the permanent questioning of reality through art as well as to the formation of educators, artists and a critical public, skilled in the understanding and enjoyment of a particular mode of communication, the language of the visual arts [...] read more -
05/10/2023
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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 -
04/11/2023
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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
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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 -
03/16/2023
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To look at SDJB and its graphic solutions is to see the principles proposed by Brazilian concrete and neo-concrete art acting directly upon the real world, since the newspaper is linked to a function: it is a vehicle for information. read more -
03/06/2023
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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 -
02/02/2023
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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 -
12/06/2022
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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 -
11/07/2022
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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 -
10/04/2022
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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 -
09/05/2022
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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 -
08/10/2022
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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 -
07/25/2022
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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 -
07/11/2022
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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 -
06/13/2022
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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 -
06/06/2022
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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
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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 -
05/04/2022
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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 -
04/09/2022
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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
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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 -
03/07/2022
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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 -
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