third master. A project by Nicolás Paris, FCAYC teams and FMJJ Art Centre.

Past event

An informal visit to the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia [FCAYC] in June 2022 triggers an unexpected encounter between Nicolás Paris (Bogotá, 1977) and the institution's team. The work of this artist addresses the field where experience is constructed through collective learning and cooperation. From that meeting a first dialectical exchange emerged about the learning processes hosted at FCAYC and the methodologies that inspire the artist's work. This exchange, nourished by reading and writing, continues over time once the artist returns to Bogotá. The dialogue grows until it becomes a study group, without predefined formats or commissions. 

The team of the Centro de Arte Fundación María José Jove, a cultural institution located in A Coruña, learns of the open conversation between Nicolás and FCAYC, again informally, and raises the possibility - welcomed by both parties - of joining the conversation. The working sessions, every Thursday, are grouped in the respective calendars under the name of third teacher.

third teacher is centred on the specific question of how learning takes place. It uses the figure of the classroom ("classrooms" in Nicolas Paris' vocabulary) as a conceptual and formal environment in which to re-imagine their codes. Each potential "classroom proposes to move fearlessly beyond the limits of an exhibition hall or a discipline. The "learning" proposed by the project approaches this verb as a process, in continuity. A process, then, based on the action of connecting and creating links, and where every element appears in the collective subject that learning implies. This topological and poetic transformation - each "classroom" wonders about what, who, when, how and where - attentive to the multiplicity of places and times that converge when we learn, can be catalysed by pressed earth, apple trees or driven by a seed.

Este proceso continúa en curso. Fruto de las decisiones de este periodo se han dado giros personales e iniciado transformaciones institucionales con reflejo directo en sus programas  –GESTO, RAÍZ, entre otros–, se han desplegado imaginarios y se han incorporado nuevos agentes. En este contexto, las sesiones han evitado priorizar unas franjas de edad o entornos materiales sobre otros –de infancia a familias, de los equipos de las instituciones al público, de bosques cercanos a talleres de oficios, de campos de cultivo a una sala de exposiciones–. Han sido guiadas por la intención de explorar los vínculos posibles y han permanecido atentas a qué imágenes significativas podrían proyectar. Además, han permitido concretar cuatro conceptos básicos para abordar experiencias de aprendizaje en relación al medio donde se sitúan la labor de Nicolás Paris, de FCAYC y del Centro de arte FMJJ, replicables en otros contextos: balance, symmetry, bifurcation and impermanence.

third master at FCAYC headquarters

third master is deployed in FCAYC as a pedagogical strategy to rethink ourselves that attends to the environment -physical, symbolic, relational and sensitive- as an active agent in the learning processes. It happens through different spaces, attitudes, atmospheres and activations in alliance with some of the active programmes -expositive and educational- in which to recognise those third masters that surround us -water, mud, seed, game, bacteria, yeast, worm, eye, or word as well as all their possible links. Their life began some time ago and will continue over the coming seasons until they are definitively integrated into our ways of doing things.

third master at the FMJJ Art Centre

At the Centro de Arte Fundación María José Jove, Tercer Maestro also starts the Classroom for fermenting ideas, un laboratorio de investigación y espacio de encuentro en torno a una semilla como maestra.  -maíz-, un grano cuyo proceso de germinación, crecimiento y transformación buscaremos escuchar, observar y acompañar en sus ritmos. Este salón será un espacio transversal que se conectará con otros proyectos: Mediated School, Root, Moving a seedetc., introducing the cereal as an educational agent in itself, which will allow us to rethink education from patient observation.

From 29 June to 12 October, the third master will be open to the public at FCAYC and FMJJ Art Centre as an exhibition project in which all interested people are invited to actively participate. It will be a space to meet, connect and learn together from shared experience, in a collective construction that celebrates the living and the common.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Title: third master
Opening: Sunday 29 June at 12:00 h.
Dates: 29 June to 12 October
Timetable: Until 16 September from 12 to 14 and from 17 to 20 h. From 17 September from 12 to 14 and from 16 to 19 h.
Addressed to:  All persons
Location:  FCAYC and FMJJ Art Centre

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Artist: Nicolas Paris
Research, Curating and Education Group: Nicolás Paris (artist) Alfredo Puente, Nadia Teixeira, Ana Andrés (FCAYC), Susana González, Alba Cacheda and Elvira Alonso (Centro de Arte FMJJ)

FCAYC
Chief Curator: Rosa Yagüez
Curator: Alfredo Puente
General coordination: Zaida Llamas
Museography and exhibition design: Juan Manuel Villanueva and Claudia Fele
Assembly: Fernando Robles, Maximino Sánchez, Alberto Valbuena, Juan José Valderrey
Maintenance: Inmaculada López and Alberto Valbuena
Education and Public Programmes: Nadia Teixeira and Ana Andrés
Sound and Listening: Luis Martínez
Communication:  Ana Andrés
Graphic design: Jose Luis González Macías
Material printing: Apel Gráfica
Audiovisual Archive: Ismael Aveleira
Photographic archive: Juan Baraja y equipo FCAYC

FMJJ ART CENTRE
Director: Susana González
Assistant to the Directorate: Elvira Alonso García
Head of the Education and Mediation Area: Alba Cacheda González
Assembly: Diego Vites
Audiovisual archive: David Silva
Photographic archive: David Silva, White Dog Studio and Centro de Arte team

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