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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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 -
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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