Course aim

This course is designed as an introduction to educational interventions in public space and the so-called urban art in its many visible ways. Aims to gauge the fundamental actions outside the legitimate art spaces and especially to put on the table what is our role as citizens who look and that project ourselves in what we see.
Methodology and structure

Formed by five two-hour sessions over three weeks (2-2-1). Outings and extraordinary collaborations with some of the Palma scene will be brought in during these sessions. The course includes viewing certain documents that cause reflections on urban art (with or without the presence of guests). The outings are designed as pathways open to question, to connect and interchange. Bibliography on and offline will be provided.

The dynamics of the course will be organized around four areas of content distributed in each session:

Origins, terminology and requirements of this type of artistic practice.
Occupations and urban social movements.
Lines of intervention in public and private spaces (I and II).
Basquiat, Haring… Banksy: the perversion commercializing and legitimising street art.

Jordi Pallarès is visual educator and curator, carrying out and following during many years events associated with urban art.

“What are you looking at” is an “Adult Classroom” course, which aims to be a stable program of courses and informative approach to contemporary art to generate publics, training and habits to a nearby or not qualified audience.

Days and times: Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 8 pm.
Dates: 18, 19, 25, 26 March and 1 April 2015.
Price: 25 euros. 10% off for members of Amics d’Es Baluard.
Limited places. Information and enrolment by difusio01@esbaluard.org
A certificate of assistance will be issued after completing each session (minimum of assistance: 80% of sessions).
Accreditation of continuing education activities for teachers by Conselleria d’Educació Cultura i Universitats de les Illes Balears.

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What are you looking at?