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Lo Pati, Centre d’Art Terres de l’Ebre
participating in the
Art and Education Conference: L’Aula al Pati
with Ramón Parramón, Marta Ricard, Jordi Canudas and Victoria Rodríguez & Natalia del Río López from the (
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
).
L’Aula al Pati
defines itself as a project that emerges from the intersection between art and education, an approach that, from the outset, we find How it works” href=”https://lafundicio.net/?page_id=48″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>related. In the case of Lo Pati, this approach translates into “the exchange and collaboration between the center and the formal, non-formal and informal educational and training centers and spaces of the Terres de l’Ebre” and aims to establish itself in the territory as a meeting point between institutions and agents in the fields of art and education.
The format of the conference seems interesting to us because, in addition to the two panels of presentations of experiences and debate, it proposes a session (on Saturday afternoon) of group work during which the guests -as is our case- will be able to learn about the concerns and experience of the conference attendees, discuss the presentations and even think about possible collaborations.
We were surprised to see that the two presentation tables are divided into “Artistic practices in the classroom” and “Artistic practices outside the classroom.” Perhaps this division responds to pragmatic issues and aims to provide a spatial reference or coordinates that help the conference attendees to locate themselves; however, it seems to us that in some way it contradicts one of the main objectives of many of the practices that are presented -and we would dare to say of the conference itself-, which is precisely to break that dialectic inside/outside the classroom: we start from the basis that educational processes must be situated in specific social and cultural contexts and that the educational institution, the agents that participate in it (in a special way the students themselves) and the knowledge they build collectively, must play a significant role in the public sphere. Although this thing about titles is sometimes a bit of a sideburn (at least in our case…) our presentation is entitled
In between and through the school and the museum
, so it seems to us that it must have been difficult for the organizers to decide whether it should be included in the table inside or outside the classroom 😛
L’Aula al Pati is a project directed by Alfred Porres” href=”http://www.alfredporrespla.org/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>
Alfred Porres
in collaboration with Quam 2012, Mechanisms of Porosity. Art, education and territory , which is a project promoted by
ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies
and that took place last weekend. We hope to meet in the Terres de l’Ebre and continue the conversation about these intersections between culture, education and territory.