PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION WORKSHOP

Since 2009 we have been running a performance workshop for teachers, educators and artists interested in education. The week-long activity consists of working with the body to forge collaborative ties and reflect collectively with the Museo CA2M educators, participating teachers and guest artists on educational processes and the performativity of education.

This year we’ve invited the art duo formed by Libia Castro (Spain) and Olafur Olafsson (Iceland), who started their partnership in the Netherlands in 1997. Working with a wide variety of media, their practice is collaborative, conceptual and cross-disciplinary.

The duo’s interventionist projects often involve other people. Over the years, they have teamed up with activist groups and invited other artists, professionals and people from different backgrounds to work with them on art and activism initiatives, creating temporary and flexible collectives governed by a “Do It Together” approach.

They have presented their work on rooftops, in public squares, on building facades, at socio-cultural centres, on radio and television, in living rooms and kitchens. They have also taken part in festivals like the 8th Havana Biennale, Manifesta 7, the 54th Venice Biennale and the 19th Sydney Biennale, and in exhibitions at venues like La Casa Invisible and the Van Abbemuseum. In 2009 they received the third prize of the Dutch Prix de Rome award for their video Lobbysts, and in 2021 they won the Icelandic Art Prize for their polyphonic performance and video In Search of Magic: A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.

More details about the workshop will be available here soon.

Previous performance workshops have featured Los Torreznos, Tania Bruguera, Pere Faura, Itziar Okariz, Norberto Llopis, Nilo Gallego, Dora Garcia, Jiri Kovanda, Olga Diego and Jorge Satorre.