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In their first project in the US, artist-run platform LA ESCUELA___ will initiate a collective learning project in Homeroom this fall charting pedagogies from across Latin America. Bridging their work across South America and the Caribbean with diasporic communities in Queens and throughout New York, LA ESCUELA___ foregrounds education as an artistic practice and invites socially engaged artists to participate in residencies and activations. Their project at PS1 includes contributions by Laura Anderson Barbata, Lizania Cruz, and Studio Lenca. A centerpiece of the exhibition is artist Miguel Braceli’s large chalkboard stage, which serves as a flexible platform for gathering, programming, and resource sharing. The exhibition also highlights a visual archive mapping artist-run practices and collective-based educational models that have inspired and collaborated with the organization.
LA ESCUELA___ (est. 2022) is a project for experimental learning and collective making in public spaces that partners with universities, institutions, and communities to create formative projects in public spaces throughout Latin America. As a platform for free and open access education, LA ESCUELA___ develops on-site and on-line projects to create new forms of knowledge. With a translocal network of artists and educators, it foregrounds social action by mapping the legacies of artist-run spaces and collective pedagogical models in Latin America and placing them in a global context. LA ESCUELA___ is founded by artist Miguel Braceli and the international foundation Siemens Stiftung.
Organized by Elena Ketelsen González, Associate Curator, with Jolene Fernandez, Homeroom Fellow, in collaboration with LA ESCUELA__ (Miguel Braceli and Madeline Murphy Turner).
Homeroom activations are supported by the Keith Haring Foundation.
Learn more about the exhibition on our website.
Images
Miguel Braceli. Monumentos horizontales [Horizontal Monuments] Guadalajara, Mexico. 2020. Espacios Revelados, an initiative of Siemens Stiftung.
Laura Anderson Barbata. La experiencia de lo común [The Experience of the Common]. 2022. Installation view, LA ESCUELA___ CLASSROOMS, in collaboration with the School of Architecture and Design of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Nelson Campos
Eleonora Fabião. WALKS WALKING WALKERS. 2023. Installation view, LA ESCUELA___ CLASSROOMS, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Andrés Zuñiga Sanjines