Son[i]a #388
Macarena García
Image from the picture-book "La madre y la muerte/La partida" by Alberto Laiseca and Alberto Chimal
Chilean writer, editor and academic Macarena García (Santiago de Chile, 1980) thinks of herself as a researcher. For her, research is a way of looking—an empirical, collaborative and transdiciplinary practice through which things are produced. Her work focuses on the co-production of culture, politics, ethics and society, with special attention to the fields of childhood, children’s literature and education.
In this podcast, we talk to 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.
Conversation: Loli Acebal and Anna Ramos. Script: Loli Acebal. Sound production: André Chêdas. Voice over: Violeta Ospina. Sounds: Radio Web MACBA Working Group, from Ina GRM.
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