mediation
Teresa Rubio
In this podcast, cultural mediator, educator, and collage artist Teresa Rubio fills us in on her way of understanding (and putting into practice) the third space that emerges in mediation. Much more than simply providing a few sofas, mediation entails being among and with others, which also opens up “other ways” of occupying and inhabiting the museum. For Teresa, mediation inherently contains performance, listening, and reproductive care work. Moreover, it is as much about individual authorship as it is about collective writing. And in order to realise its full potential, it often needs to be an internal process too.
We talk about working at different frequencies at the same time, as well as the importance of play, fiction, unproductive time, and the procedural— a "making in the process," in Teresa's words— as generative spaces for both artistic research and educational and mediation practices. We focus especially on her passion for collage and the potentials that emerge from that space: the openness to new meanings, the use of remnants, and the possibility of involving the body and materials in the conversation.