Next Tuesday, November 29, at 6 p.m., we are opening
L’herència de L’herència
in LaFundició’s physical space. Coinciding with our tenth anniversary, we are continuing the series of retrospective exhibitions on some of the work processes we have developed over these 10 years of LaFundició, with the aim of organizing our archive. On this occasion, we will have the presence of and chat with
Oriol Fontdevila
(art critic and independent curator).
L’herència
was a project developed in the years 2010-2011 in the Espai Memòries. Laboratori del s. XX of the
Museu Comarcal de Manresa
. This space would be the museum room dedicated to the 20th century. Four initial seasons were then scheduled, each dedicated to a specific theme, the first of which was pedagogy in Manresa during the 20th century. Oriol Fontdevila curated the exhibition project and called us to develop a process that would be both educational and collective creation about the memory of education in Manresa.
We were then presented with what seemed like an insurmountable obstacle: finding a class group from an educational center that was willing to participate in a project throughout an entire course, also using the museum’s own room as a workplace. But thanks to our proverbial tenacity, we found Llorenç Planes and Joan Morros, professors of a Sociocultural Animation Training Cycle at the
Institut Guillem Catà
in Manresa, thanks to whose predisposition and complicity L’herència could be developed in practice.
It is also worth mentioning the personal involvement of Francesc Vilà, director of the Museu Comarcal de Manresa, in an initiative that clearly broke with several of the myths and rituals on which the ordinary functioning of a museum is based.
In L’herència we proposed to the group of students from the Institut Guillem Catà to produce a television series about the historical struggles to preserve or destroy the memory of certain pedagogical practices throughout the 20th century. The production of this series required prior research by the students themselves and the entire process was recorded on video, also with the collaboration of the students. But perhaps the most interesting thing was the occupation and transformation of the exhibition space itself that we promoted throughout the process.
L’herència had its own website that we will recover someday, until then you can read a little more about the project here, on our website.
What you can see above is the first chapter of the series, which you can see in full, along with the videos that documented the entire process on our YouTube channel (here the L’herència playlist). In addition to all this, Xavi Gil was in charge of the camera and Luca Rullo of the sound.