Education

The U21 team is a group made up of young people from 16 to 21 years of age who are interested in culture, art and community life. We focus on utopian practices of art that promote experimental forms of organisation, dissident attitudes and collective creative processes. Our way of working is to continuously evolve: right now it seems almost miraculous to be able to meet at a museum to spend time together but we feel that this is very important. This year, we aim to bring back museums, meetings, artists and group meet-and-greets, travelling to the future, becoming nomads and mountaineers, doing magic and adapting to the circumstances like true chameleons.

In this first stage of the year, called Start of the End of the World: Youth, we begin a collective research laboratory with the artist Paz Rojo, in which we radically experiment with speculation and the future.

Currently the U21 team is made up of: Diego Alonso, Alicia Arévalo Gallego, Cristina Bermúdez Garrido, Paula Díaz Cano, Miriam Domínguez García, Sandra Esteban López, Nadia Ettahri, Claudia Fernández Concepción, Marina Lillo García, Irene Lloret Miguel, Elisa Lozano Triviño, Fabiana Marques Abatemarco, Richard Moreno Campechano, Marina Olympia Rodríguez Ibáñez, Rosario O'Kelly, Hugo P, Daniel Perera García, Iris Perpiñá Fabra, Rubén Reyes Carrasco, Tamara Serrano Cabello and Marina Viñarás Germano.

The new team members will be: Marina Díaz, Adrián David Ferrer Cinta, Carolina Vizcaíno Serrano, Chris Alzamora Martínez, Claudia Mangas Gómez- Álvarez, Eleana Mayra Fernández Barcellona, Esly Reyes Germán, Valentina Herrera Otálvaro, Brallan Josué Ramos López, José Javier Hernández Escudero, Ana Rodríguez and Clara Isabel de Pedro Lizarazu.

There is a desert
immense
at the back of our
retinas
we see nothing
nothing
unless it is
his disguise
the distant confused whisper
in an unknown language

It has happened to us all. That feeling, though short-lived, is very beautiful: you are with your friends and you play a song that you love, you read an excerpt from one of your favourite books, or you want to share a photograph that has meant something to you for many years. You feel that desire to share the delight of an obsession, to share its magnetism.

This project arose from exploring an obsession that morphed over time and that many people throughout history have experienced. We are referring to invisibility. Where does it come from? How can we become invisible, manage to vanish – dissolve – to not be seen or detected?

This will be the starting point from which, together, we will explore different notions that, precisely, do not fit purely within the physical realm. Voice, a whisper, breath. Their rhythms. Magic and escapism. Leaping into the unknown. Camouflaging ourselves in the night. Accepting the risk of listening to our intuitions. Other ways of being close, although these – apparently – are invisible.

Project developed by the artist Raquel G. Ibañez

10 JUN 2010. FINAL SESSION OF THE 2009-2010 ACADEMIC YEAR

This session will mark the end of the activities carried out during the 2009-2010 academic year. We will analyse the achievements of the past year and discuss our goals for the next.

13 MAY 2010. 4TH LITERARY ANALYSUS SESSION: JACQUES RANCIÈRE 

In this session, we will discuss excerpts from The Ignorant Schoolmaster.

17 APR 2010. LAS LINDES ENCOUNTER

This is an encounter in which the agents and educators involved in the Las Lindes programme can reflect on and discuss their educational practices, projects, concerns, problems and aspirations. Each worktable group will analyse key aspects of different practices and then share their conclusions with the other participants. This encounter represents a step forward in the construction of an educational community and provides an opportunity to voice new perspectives on the work completed to date.

8 APR 2010. ENCOUNTER WITH NEOKINOK 
In this session, Neokinok's Dani Miracle will accompany us in order to discuss about his projects and his educational practices.

11 MAR 2010. READING ANLYSIS III: PAOLO FREIRE
In this session we will discuss about fragments of The Pedagogy of Hope by Paolo Freire.

11 FEB 2010. PRESENTATION OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND MATERIALS

One of the objectives of the Las Lindes programme is to offer a showcase and provide a framework for discussing projects that explore new strategies for reformulating educational practices that involve audiovisual communication and the visual arts.

10 JAN 2010. READING ANLYSIS III: BELL HOOKS
In this session we will analyse and discuss the chapters “Embracing Change. Teaching in a Multicultural World” and “Building a Teaching Community. A Dialogue”, both published in the book Teaching to Transgress. Education as the Practice of Freedom.

10 DEC 2009. OPEN SESSION: PRESENTATION OF THE WORK OF DONESTECH

In this session we will meet members of the Donestech collective who will share with us some of their projects and materials which may be used as educational tools in the classroom. Donestech defines itself as a group of women social researchers interested in new technologies. For some time now, they have been exploring the relationship between women and technology.

12 NOV 2009. OPEN SESSION: READING ANALYSIS I: ADORNO. EDUCATION FOR AUTONOMY

Interview with Helmut Becker (1959-1969).

In this session we will analyse and discuss the chapters “Education for What?”, “Education for Autonomy” and “Television and Cultural Training”, all related to Adorno’s discussions with Becker.

8 OCT 2009. OPEN SESSION AND PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT

Documentation and further information

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An amateur choir is a creative project in which all types of voices are welcome. The choir doesn’t just sing songs but aspires to embrace all the sounds in the world. That’s why it sings through silence, mumbling and stuttering and with sounds that sometimes involuntarily escape the body like laughter and screams..
 

During confinement we managed to counter our fears by singing to and with each other over the phone. We find melodies in the washing machine, stories through the window and a new language of gargling and birdsong. Now we are really looking forward to seeing each other in person once again and finally going together to Zarzalejo to sing with the choir of the artist Amalia Fernández.