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In his book Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things, Steven Connor describes a myth regarding the use of everyday objects for communicating: our ancestors, he says, used to carry objects that helped them communicate with each other. In The System of Objects, J. Baudrillard thinks about a system of objects as a system of meanings that go beyond their functional description, that is, the objects as a border between the interior and the exterior: confidents, psychological recipients of our everyday work. We will use some practical exercises to work with possible translations of the relationships between body-object-memory, carrying them into public spaces, thinking about how our everyday relationships with objects could serve as motors for other ways of looking at the world.

To approach these topics, the workshop will make use of different devices:

Profile and characteristics of people wishing to attend the workshop:

— Teaching artists and artists at large with an interest in working with objects, in thinking about their materiality and archives, with experience in creative processes, community management processes, pedagogical processes, and so on.

— Interested in interdisciplinary processes between the visual arts, scenography, and education.

— Availability to attend the workshop in-person, during the 4 established days.

— Willingness to work in a public space on the last day of the workshop.

— A letter of intention answering the following question: Why are you compelled to participate in the workshop “Objectual Devices for Us to Imagine”?

Art and education processes are essential channels to enhance various forms of knowledge. In my experience, project managing, agroecology, artivism, collaborative processes in scenography, visual creation, and graphic design are all mediated by the working ways of a Central American teaching artist. How do these forms of knowledge converge in a coherent time and space?