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ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION, ANNUAL EXHIBITION LICEO TALLER SAN MIGUEL
Talking about the relationship between art and education today leads us to think about all the possible variables that this implies. There are different tensions between art and educations, so it is important to see where the question comes from, for example, are we talking about art education? or maybe from art tools applied to pedagogy? or maybe the question is focused on the possible pedagogies of art at the service of school education? No matter what the case, there is a binding factor that, in our opinion, is fundamental to make sense of any of the above questions; creativity.
In this order of ideas, it is good to understand or approach what is possibly creativity. The word creativity comes from "creare" in latin, which means: beget, produce, create. In turn the word is related with "crescere": to grow. This way, when you talk about creativity, you tal of a total change in the way of observing and reading, both us and the world and the contexts that come from it. This generates a dislocation in the world from the aspect of doing which tends towards what is new, it is necessary then to use creativity and to be critical of who we are and what we represent. It is here, where art and aesthetic processes allow us to develop mechanisms of creativity, freed from absolute rationality which tends to restrict the expanded sensitive field.
With artistic practices as an engine that enhances creativity in teaching and learning processes the Liceo Taller San Miguel appears as a place in which things happen in a creative and critical way, a conducive place to carry out any creative process, understanding these developments from doing as a mobilization of thought towards the materialization of ideas, strengthening the creativity of students and teachers of the institution .
Exhibition Photos 2018-2019
It is also important to highlight that from the methodologies and spaces of the arts area workshop (that also have very important tools for the production of work as an engraving press and kiln for ceramics) we generate creative laboratories where the experimental and the use of different materials and techniques allow students to develop their best creative processes. All of the above combined with the efforts of committed teaching staff who in the best way generate the best mobilization of knowledge
Alejandro Múnera
Visual Arts
Teacher Primary
Liceo Taller San Miguel
Exhibition Photos 2017-2018
EXPERIMENTATION AND CREATIVE PROCESSES IN THE ARTS WORKSHOP
" The word experimental is valid, provided it is understood not as the description of an act that will then be judged in terms of success or failure, but simply as an act whose result is unknown .” (John Cage. 1912 - 1992).
The concept of laboratory in the imaginary collective school context, has almost always been closer to the areas of scientific knowledge: physics, mathematics, chemistry, among others areas, these are spaces for trial and error and a drive to find results from thorough procedures and specific searches .
In a esthetic-artistic practices today the laboratory appears as an activator to implement methodologies in the field of research-creation based on various mechanisms of random searches, encounters with the unknown and sometimes entering a game in which the result can be unexpected. This is how in the visual arts area of the Liceo Taller San Miguel, the different traditional artistic languages: engraving, painting and drawing in an experimental way are approached as languages that act as inciters for new processes which in turn involve the approach of concepts, the use of other materials and enhance the creative experiences of the contemporaneity. It is also important to highlight the use of new media as a way to expand the creative world, all in order to stimulate students to capture their realities, create imaginary universes, use their everyday life as a theme and motivate them to build their own view of the world from its most sensitive and critical side .
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It is important to highlight that the different technologies have provided us with elements to build new possibilities of creation, here the experimental appears as a latent exercise to link various media in artistic production where the use of digital and analogue has helped us to get involved in intermedia processes. These have languages such as video, animation, creative electronics and sound experimentation; the latter has immersed us in a new universe. From creative exercises like walking as an aesthetic practice, listening as a latent sense and sound plasticity we have opened new horizons to develop ideas, appropriating the auditory as a material distant from the musical, making use of mobile devices as a tool, the internet as a platform and apps as productive inputs in the arts .
Given the above, in the school context it is important to avoid perceiving the arts as one more subject, away from the other areas of knowledge, the actions performed here are manifested in a place conducive to enhance the creative self, which is externalized in all the cognitive processes of the student; actions that are evident in the artistic laboratory not only through a final product, which should not be judged under the relative eye of beauty, but as a mechanism of construction and de-construction of thought .
The arts workshop has gone from being an enclosure where there is a teacher and some trainees who follow the teachings of a leader in a technical sense, to become a space for collective creation, where everyone from their own skills contributes to the group's processes, turning the teacher into an activator that provides conceptual tools for that experience to be relevant for individual development, taking into account artistic education as a device for the construction of knowledge, emancipation and cultural transformation .
Andrés Cuartas Suárez.
Middle and High School Visual Arts Teacher
Liceo Taller San Miguel
