EDUCATION

The Educational and Community area within the San José Foto Festival, arises from the decision and the need to incorporate the community of the Department to the enjoyment and use of the cultural and social richness that implies the realization of this event. Sometimes the places where such specific activities are carried out are difficult to approach for those who do not frequent them often and since the Festival promotes an exchange of views, realities and very diverse knowledge, we believe that the local use is key.

For this reason, and with the premise of making SFJ an inclusive and accessible event this area has been working since the third edition of the festival, generating activities at a local level and for a transversal enjoyment. The proposals wil worked based on the theme of the Festival: “Territory”, understanding as territory everything that can be inhabited, that allows us to do and leave our mark. That invites us to transit and rest. That is support and platform. The territory allows us to develop both personally and in collective interaction, it gives us a context from which to interpret, it gives us a framework to understand behaviors and positions us when it comes to make a statement.

In a changing world, where perceptions of what is known, accepted and normative change, the spaces of representation must echo the thoughts and feelings that run through us. The invitation then is to inhabit ourselves by breaking down prejudices, to show our territories without fear, knowing that we are in an open space and willing to exchange. The meeting space during the Festival will be the Plaza de los 33 Orientales, where different activities will be held for all audiences, and the work done prior to the Festival will be exhibited locally.

PRE-FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS

Your meeting space

We invite children to rethink their spaces through a playful activity with images and plastic elements such as collage and drawing. A known space can be transformed and rethought in a completely different way when the only limit is the one we set for ourselves.

With a question as simple as “What would your meeting place be like” we invite the children to take ownership and rethink their spaces of interest. Known places that we have walked and lived, but that through the sieve of our imagination can be transformed and revived.

  • Activity for 5th Grade Children
  • School 45 of San José
  • Coordinator: Nicolás Vidal

How not to feel in the spotlight

Our body is our first inhabited territory, that which separates us from others and which, together with our subjectivity, builds us as another. Our body is a treasure, which is our armor but also allows us to offer ourselves.

Temple of ideas and feelings, tool and means of generation.

The invitation is to manifest the body, that body we inhabit that sometimes can be a prison and sometimes is freedom. It is to manifest our body, your body, our bodies, how they are, how they would be, how we want them to be with total freedom and honesty.

Activity for adolescents in the 6th year of artistic baccalaureate.

  • San José High School 1
  • Coordinator: Lorena Larriestra

Inhabited territories

The time in which we inhabit…

How many times telling a story and contextualizing it is linked to a time measured in terms of being in a certain place? How is time measured in terms of that perception? The space we inhabit and pass through is linked to time, to its movement or to its static sensation, sometimes measurable, sometimes clearly subjective.

This workshop invites us to reflect on the static or flexible nature of the territories we inhabit, and how they construct our stories.

To this end, we invite those who participate in the workshop to intervene images of their history linked to a place that was or is inhabited by them, giving them a meaning and a history through collage techniques related to textiles.

  • Activity for Adults.
  • UNAMA (Maragata Open University) San José.
  • Coordinator: Aime Castro.

ACTIONS DURING THE FESTIVAL

New visual narratives – Photobooks

Based on images of some of the winning projects of the Open Call, we will work with the intervention of these images to take them to other formats such as the photobook, the banner or the accordion book. The aim of the workshop is to explore the possibilities and expand the limits already traversed over and over again in the narratives we inhabit.

The workshop is free and open to children and families who want to share.

  • Veneu: Plaza de los 33 orientales
  • Coordination: Alejandra Marin.

Photography processes without camera

In the framework of San José Foto we will set up the mobile laboratory of Fede Ruiz Santesteban at Plaza de los Treinta y Tres Orientales. We will experiment with processes of photography without a camera and we will develop photos of artists who won the Open Call of the Festival.

A participatory activity in which we will work with alternative processes developed by the author free of bichromates, cyanides and silver nitrate. Emulsions toned with beet, coffee, turmeric and other natural pigments will be the focus of this proposal in which we will enjoy the magic of “development”.

  • The workshop is free and open to children and families who want to share.
  • Place: Plaza de los 33.
  • Coordinated by: Federico Ruiz.

Re-encuadrando – Serigraphy

We will work with the silkscreen printing of a series of photographs of artists who won the Open Call of the Festival in dot format, with water-based inks, using as support a cardboard with folds that becomes a portrait holder.

The workshop is free and open to children and families who want to share.

  • Place: Plaza de los 33.
  • Coordinated by: Federico Ruiz.

Three-dimensional collage

Participants will be able to make small models taking images of the city of San José as a base, and combining them with images of the Open Calla selected projects, and other visual elements. In this way they will produce a series of “three-dimensional collages” that will invite to think and imagine different possible versions of the territory. The different realizations will be photographed and published at the “Plaza de los 33 Orientales” point on Google Maps, in order to use the platform as an exhibition space. This action is part of “Invading a map”, a project that investigates the photographic image in virtual environments, taking Google Maps as the axis. It is developed through different strategies such as fiction, the study of images already existing in that universe, and devices such as this one aimed at generating spaces for meeting and reflection.

The workshop is free and open to children and families who want to share.

  • Venue: Plaza de los 33.
  • Coordinated by: Martín Pérez.

ACTION WITH EDUCATIONAL SPACES IN URUGUAY

Photography: Andrés Boedo

Inspired by the spirit of the collective and the importance of sharing our views, we invite schools and training spaces in photography to be part of a visual portrait of our territory throughout the country, which will have as a final format an audiovisual piece to be screened through “Cine a Pedal” during the 4th Edition of the Festival.

We invite you to invite students and alumni to submit a photograph referring to the theme “Territory”.

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