pedagogy

We talk with philosopher, writer, and teacher Marina Garcés about education and knowledge, about the future, and about time as raw material. We consider the question of how to appear and think with others in this present moment, which demands our active involvement. We discuss the meeting of unequals, and the possibility of strangeness becoming a link. We also explore the logic of the sinking ship or “every man for himself” and the evolution of the words “disobedience” and “freedom”, which leads Marina to emphasise the importance of forming alliances rather than thinking from the reductionist position of unity. At the same time, she invites us to imagine how to weave together worlds that are falling apart.

We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with philosopher, writer, and teacher Marina Garcés. We talk about experience transmission vs models, paradoxes, counterpower and learning from each other.

Hablamos con la artista Andrea Francke sobre su interés en las infraestructuras y proyectos participativos. Inclusión, hospitalidad y los ecos del proyecto colonial aparecen en la conversación. Andrea va deshaciendo la idea de fracaso mientras reflexiona acerca de los desafíos que conlleva la elaboración de políticas y marcos legales institucionales. Hablamos también de categorías de arte importadas, de trabajos invisibles y de la idea de caridad como un callejón sin salida.

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.