making art happen

We​ ​live​ ​in​ ​a​ ​moment​ ​in​ ​which​ ​the​ ​visual​ ​language​ ​is​ ​an important​ ​part​ ​of​ ​our​ ​everyday.​ ​We​ ​need​ ​tools​ ​and instruments​ ​in​ ​order​ ​to​ ​read,​ ​to​ ​generate​ ​and​ ​to​ ​decode the​ ​images​ ​around​ ​us.​​ ​T​his​ ​project​ ​proposes​ ​a​ ​wider understanding​ ​and​ ​acknowledgment​ ​on​ ​visual​ ​language through​ ​contemporary​ ​art.

Description

The idea is to offer an exclusive programme of summer camps based on two important values: CONTEMPORARY ART through practice and leading by spanish artists and BILINGUALISM, Spanish and English language.

Methodology

– Learning the creative process of the artist from the contemporary artists themselves. Knowledge through a variety of activities, different ways of exploring, investigating, thinking and developing a work of art.

– The use of visual artistic elements such as the light, shadows, composition and colour. The use of mediums such as photography, video, theater, performance and installation.

-We will use the exhibition space as the objective for investigation; the scenography, communication and the curatorial elements. We will give meaning to the creations and think about the different ways to showcase the work.

– The cultural mediation for the workshops will translate the contemporary art praxis to the everyday.
– The use of Spanish language as added value to the learning.

Goals

-Exercise creativity to know our environment in a critical and personal way.
-Learn other forms of personal expression through contemporary art.
-Show different ways of telling our reality.
-Educate artistic sensibility

Our first workshop

maria arceo, artist

SUPPORT
Instituto Cervantes London , an official institution conceived to promote the
Spanish language and Hispanic culture supports Making Art Happen, a project
which will take place in schools and cultural centres across the UK. The project’s nature
and the aim is to help Spanish contemporary art and Spanish language dissemination,
as well as generating new forms of access for the use and enjoyment of the
contemporary art created by our artists.

ubiquotechs, a group of Spanish computer scientists have been in contact with us to be able to collaborate in making a final exhibition applying its technology of interactive sensors. In short, we could make a final interactive presentation!

transit projects Transit Projects collaborates with the most important cultural, educational and social organisations in order to help define innovative strategies for companies, associations, foundations or public institutions. We believe it is essential to redraw profiles and functions, define new lines of action and structure new internal process in an ever-changing working scene. 

light painting

The etymology of the word “photography” was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtos) “light”and γραφή (graphé) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”

Description

The workshop is presented to children in a fun way. The workshop leaders will create a fictional story and children will have to illustrate the story by producing a series of images. The children will not see the photographs provided until the end of the session so that the work remains of mystery and wonder. At the end of the workshop the images will be revealed, thus retelling the story.

Methodology

Light painting workshop is created to use new digital photography technologies while learning and understanding the basic principal of photographic process; to capture light.

Goals

The aim of the workshop is to explore the basic concept of photography as been a tool that captures light by using the camera and light to create images in a different way. At the same time, it triggers the imagination of the participants who have to draw the content of the photographs to illustrate the story.

During the XVIII century many scientists worked in developing methods that could capture images rapidly and accurately. Henry Fox Talbot is considered the father of the most popular photographic process used, the negative/positive process, which was developed from his “calotype” invention in 1841. Between 1844 and 1846 he created the first series of photo-books called The Pencil of Nature executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing.

The etymology of the word “photography” was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtos) “light”and γραφή (graphé) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light” (Wikipedia). Today, digital photography is based on the same principal to analogue photography: a light sensitive sensor that captures light and it is transformed instantly in to a digital algorithm that it can displayed on screen. However, the immediacy of this technique does not allow the understanding the process of capturing light and users focus only on the content of the image produced.

line hunters

Learning different sensations by exploring the limits of our senses. The lines surround us, but they live hidden, they are shy, but once you discover them take shapes, play, and speak a special code that we are going to know.

Description

We invite you to hunt something very special in the secret archives of the library of Brixton .. We will be hunters of lines!

Methodology

Through our questions, you will observe the lines that are around us
What does a hunter need to be a good hunter?
What skills do you have?
Do we need to hunt?
Have you hunted line before?
How is a line?
Where are the lines from?
Where line lives?

Aims

To activate the senses and develop awareness of the shapes and structures of all the things that surround us.

To learn to use our imagination to build creative narratives.

To exercise your tools to activate the imagination.

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It’s time to become hunters!

is this Spain? [stereotypes]

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. Margaret Mead

Description

It is a research project whose main objective is the analysis of social realities through specific themes. Working formats are transversal, dynamic and with participatory methodologies adapted to the venues and host countries of the proposals. In each edition, lines develop critical thinking and experimental formats created ad-hoc for the project.

is this Spain? began in 2009 with a first edition theme [stereotypes] a reflection on the current Spanish identity built on a stereotypical image of gipsy Spain. Through artists working with critical discourses developed from a political point of view, ironic and burlesque turns off the bias assigned to Spain and society. Amending the reductionist view that is homogeneous in contemporary Spanish, showing the history of a society enjoying a recent cultural and social development well recognised. Intro Ian Gibson, Irish-Hispanic.

www.isthisspain.es

Is this Spain? Exhibition at the Crypt in King´s Cross. Artists: Colectivo DEMOCRACIA, Busto Bocanegra, Colectivo DERIVART, Colectivo UHF, Greta Alfaro, Momu&NoEs