Art and Activism in Latin America – year I (2016)
On October 17, 18 and 19, artists in residency Crack Rodriguez, Luciana Magno and Jesus Bubu Negrón will coordinate workshops open to the public at Despina. The goal is to promote inter-cultural dialogue as well as to create networks between artists and the local audience. Follow below more information about each workshop. If you want to participate, send an email to cursos@despina.org + full name and contact phone number. Don’t forget to inform us the workshops you would like to attend.
SUBSCRIPTIONS CLOSED!
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17.10 – Monday
THE FANTASTIC WORLD OF POLITICAL AND ELECTORAL MARKETING OR ITS UTOPIA ON THE HEIGHTS
Led by Luciana Magno
This workshop invites all participants to take part in a participatory action game that seeks to subvert electoral marketing techniques. Experimental exercises will be carried out to create inventive political discourses (slightly based on the “wonderful world” that marketing people create) with surreal goal developments and unfulfilled campaign strategies for utopian fictional characters. From the discourse elaborated collectively, actions, games and strategies will be devised to take our utopias to the heights.
When: 17 October
Time: 2 – 6 pm
Where: Despina
Number of participants: 10
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18.10 – Tuesday
HOW TO FALL FROM A SCHOOL CHAIR?
Led by Crack Rodriguez
The purpose of this workshop is to share awareness and “fearlessness” techniques through physical exercises. The idea is to try to reflect on educational spaces, try to teach how to protect ourselves from the symbols that undermine our right to learn and try to materialize the coup that has been modifying government policies aimed at low-income students in Brazil.
When: 18 October
Time: 2 – 6 pm
Where: Despina
Number of participants: 15
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19.10 – Wednesday
THE “MEME” AS AN ACTIVISM TOOL
Led by Jesus Bubu Negròn
This workshop consists of demonstrating and enacting one of the strategies used by a group of young activists from a community base in Puerto Rico called the PDT Brigade. These young people use the “meme” as a tool for expressing and transmitting positive messages that serve to raise collective self-esteem and promote social and community empowerment through traditional methods and / or techniques of communication. The PDT Brigade is an activist group that operates as a community-based collective. Formed mostly by young people from the neighborhood of Puerta de Tierra, in the capital San Juan, Puerto Rico, their members are against gentrification and work together to rescue their neighborhood, their history and their people. More information: www.brigadapdt.org
When: 19 October
Time: 2 – 6 pm
Where: Despina
Number of participants: 15
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ART AND ACTIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA is a project conceived by Despina, with the support from the Dutch organization Prince Claus Fund. The project extends for three years (2016, 2017 and 2018). Each year, a theme guided a series of actions and events, including occupations, workshops, talks, film screenings, exhibitions, public talks with important names from the contemporary artistic + activist thought and a residency programme. For this first edition, the theme is Public Space. For more information, click here.