Son[i]a #217
Jordi Ferreiro
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Jordi Ferreiro is an artist and educator who sees no distinction between his two chosen disciplines. His projects mediate the relationship between the artist, the audience, and the museum through strategies based on participation, play, and estrangement. They include choreographed tours, passive performances, interactive audiotours, social sculptures, hyperfiction, installations, and quite a few kilos of gold confetti.
In his spare time, Jordi Ferrerio studies information transfer methodologies and educational movements that lie outside the norm. For this conversation, he has organised them according to three basic criteria: the space, the participants, and the methodology. To a greater or lesser extent, each of the case studies interrupts the usual structure and relations that are set up in the classroom.
Through anomalous, subaltern, experimental projects such as the University of Trees, the Outdoor Painting Schools in Mexico, a Zaragoza-based origami group, the Escola Catalana del Tapís, and the German forest schools, Jordi Ferreiro shares practical examples that operate around play, performativity, and horizontality.
Jordi Ferreiro talks about educational situations outside the norm, affects and meaningful learning, and experimental systems of evaluation.
Laagencia
For the Columbian collective Laagencia, mediation and education are indistinguishable from artistic practice. Laagencia first opened its doors in 2010 in the Chapinero district of Bogotá, as an office for art projects with an exhibition space, run by Mariana Murcia, Diego García, Santiago Pinyol, Mónica Zamudio and Sebastián Cruz. Five years later it was rebooted as a collective thinking and study group open to methodological experimentation and informality, always looking for ways to organise new forms of “doing with others”. In this ensemble podcast, we talk with them about these ten years of "extitution"
Deleted scenes
We dig up an unreleased fragment of our conversation with artist, educator and researcher Mônica Hoff, questioning the notion of creativity, that we were unable to include the first time around.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with the collective Laagencia, embodied here by the voices of Mariana Murcia, Diego García and Santiago Pinyol, that we were unable to include the first time around.
Macarena García
In this podcast, we talk to Chilean writer, editor and academic Macarena García about her working methods with children in schools and other shared educational spaces. We talk about challenging picture-books, about fascination and overflow as tools for collective transformation, and about what happens to bodies when they are together. We also explore the workings of censorship and how children’s literature approaches subjects such as death, sex, racism, dictatorship, feminism, gender identity and the climate crisis.
Nicolás Paris
Nicolás Paris talks about his years as a teacher in La Macarena and his particular teaching method based on association. He also reflects on the importance of drawing in his work as a tool for projecting ideas, on architecture as a working method, on words as artistic material, and on thought as form.
Mônica Hoff
Mônica Hoff talks about epistemological Dadaism and education in public, about institutions that learn, dissent as a strategy to generate movement and thought, scales, micropoltics, and the cracks in which everything happens, and about slowing down, or even stopping.
In this document we share Jordi Ferreiro's preparatory notes on his personal research about ducational situations outside the norm.
Jordi Ferreiro
The artist and educator Jordi Ferreiro talks about other ways of interacting with the Museum and about his conversation with Rita McBride's exhibition.