ART AND EDUCATION / EDUCATION AND ART
In 2009, Maria Acaso published the book “Art education is not crafts. New practices in teaching arts and visual culture”, the content of which is as relevant today as it was six years ago. While the role that art education plays in compulsory education is increasingly secondary, Acaso claims the need to reinforce art education, […]
Entrevista en el programa Terrícolas de Lluís Reales
MIND MAPS
Mind maps allow information to be organised in a visual way through associations of concepts, words and images. For some artists, mind maps can also be a working or presentation methodology that allows them to understand the world, create stories that are as personal as they are idiosyncratic or uncover twisted plots. Jeremy Deller, Patricia […]
Six proposals and a feeling
The challenge is great: proposals to improve the context of the arts in Catalonia. The temptation to fall into discouraging diagnoses is there. But the guideline is clear: we are going to be proactive. So what is the context? What and who make up the artistic fabric? Obviously it is not only the institutions, large […]
“Arts and culture make our experience of the world more complex”. An interview with Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Patrizia Sandretto is an outstanding collector. She began her collection in the 90s and soon her interests focused on photography and media art. President of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, in the following interview she speaks about her interest in media art, her relationship with artists and her active and committed role in the art […]
Looking at history from the present, or how to activate the past
Revisiting the past from a contemporary perspective is a premise as necessary as it is delicate and, too often, boring. Depending on the motivations, you can generate tendentious rereadings or associations free of academicisms that can become the key to understanding some facts of the present. Apart from the Tricentenary theme, three interesting examples in […]
UbuWeb or a world without copyright is possible
It has been around for eighteen years and is one of the most impressive accessible archives dedicated to contemporary culture. It contains concrete and sound poetry, video pieces made by artists, underground cinema, sound art and other extravaganzas that are true treasures. It is UbuWeb. It was founded by the poet Kenneth Goldsmith and defines […]
Carolina Bonfim
In her work, Carolina Bonfim explores the codes of gestures and body representation, as well as the overlaps and shifts between the gaze and physical presence. Through projects on a very human scale, the artist creates scenarios and situations that allow for a direct relationship between artist and spectator, as well as the questioning of […]
Please Pay Attention Please
James Lee Byars wrote in 1968: “I founded a fictitious museum in New York in ’68 and collected 1,000,000 minutes of attention to show”. That same year, Andy Warhol made a declaration of principles in the catalogue of an exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 […]
Rereading Marx (in update mode)
Link to the article July 28, 2014. Although the official discourse insists that there is an economic recovery, the crisis that began in 2008 is here to stay. Economic deregulation and its consequences (global inflation, food and energy crises, threat of recession, etc.) and that maxim that terrifies and paralyzes in equal measure, called “crisis […]
