Program 2024/2025
The work from October to June will focus on three topics: TRAVELING, ISLANDS, TREASURES
Traveling connect us to the idea of search, observation, ephemeral and recording; Islands connect us to the a territory that we will discover, whether real or fictional; Treasures is the moment for a special encounter with the "here and now", re-looking at the child's space and discovering the magic of what surrounds us.
For about three months we want to explore, investigate and deconstruct each of these perspectives, through observation, dialogue, play; with the help of artworks and the artist's creative processes. In each topic, 2 artists will be presented, from different art areas, and we will look at their work, relating it to the topics worked by the students. This way, we will be able to create a close bridge between students and artists and, at the same time, we will reinforce the diversity of solutions and perspectives that exist to work on the same idea.
1st TRIMESTER | TRAVELING
Do I need to leave the yellow door classroom to travel? What do I need to bring? How can you discover the path, how do I record and memorize it? Can the time between departure and arrival be saved?
With a suitcase in our hand, we will discover the works of two artists who are fascinated by travel and discover through their different perspectives how travel can be a fantastic way to learn!
Keywords: Suitcase | Land Art | Timeline | Tracks | Memories | Painting
Artists to present in classes: Richard Long and Joaquim Rodrigo
2nd TRIMESTER | ISLANDS
An island is surrounded by water… or is it not?
What forms can it have? Is there an “up and down”?
Between written words (which transported us to incredible and unknown places) and aquatic environments full of light and color, we will invent and discover islands that have never been explored.
Keywords: Transparency | Color| Senses | Environments | Abstractions| Architecture
Artists to present in classes: Italo Calvino and Pipilotti Rist
3rd TRIMESTER | TREASURES
What if suddenly the places we know so well were transformed just by looking at them?
What if the school was a map and the garden hid countless TREASURES?!
Places become the raw material for inventing new things and creating new realities.
With one foot in the room and the other in the world, we will find material and treasures to work with and be artists in the world!
Keywords: Site-specific | map | interventions in the school space | treasures| fiction | nature
Artists to be presented in classes: José António Portillo and Nuno Maya & Carole Purnelle
Note: our program may undergo minor changes.
