Fito Conesa IN RESiDENCE at the School Príncep de Girona

PLANNED INITIATIVES

- A hologram landing at the Institut Príncep de Girona and greeting everyone.
- Rethinking classrooms all together by revolutionising the place’s hierarchy.
- Presenting the group. Stating your name and something that you are thinking about at that moment.
- Fito Conesa's “Draw my life” project, based on YouTube videos.
- Choosing and sharing a video that represents us.
- Rethinking classrooms again.
- Reflecting on various ways and aesthetics that enable us to speak about who we are (from archive material, first-person recording, other resources).
- Preparing a one-minute video where a person introduces themself.
- Trip to the Joan Miró Foundation’s Espai 13 to visit Fito Conesa's “El nostre camí queda”.
- Screening of “Un minut del jo” and a discussion and analysis of the various proposals on this initiative.
- Trip to CaixaForum Barcelona to attend a video-creation workshop, using live editing work and the concepts of rhythm, arrhythmia and synaesthesia, where sound functions as a decisive tool in the visual narrative.
- Initiative on film and visual production, through recording, dubbing and exchanging voices and personalities, invoking Gillian Wearing's “2 into 1” proposal.
- Contamination session at the Institut Príncep de Girona: Presenting and sharing learning around the project with the school’s teachers.
- Public presentation of the project at the Institut Príncep de Girona.

UNPLANNED INITIATIVES

- Thinking about the project's blog as a space for exploring the construction of the process’s narratives, with a possible evaluation test integrated into the learning processes of the participants (voices of students, teachers, artist and mediators).
- Reflection on the question “Vandalism or art?” from an anonymous intervention on the school’s wall.
- Contamination session at the Sâlmon Festival 2019: Presenting and sharing learning around the project with students from other schools taking part in the In Residence programme.
- Trip to “Experimentem amb l’ART” to find out a bit more about the organisation and decide among the group what and how we would bring about the creative processes.
- Collective automatic writing initiative for generating an initial script for the audiovisual work. The audiovisual work title, “Soroll de màquina estèril” [Noise of a sterile machine], came up.
- Trip to “Experimentem amb l’ART” for cooking breakfast and reflecting on food and ways of cooking, thereby activating aspects for evaluating around the project. Work groups began to be set up for producing the audio-visual work (technical direction, artistic direction, script, illustrated script, costumes and make-up, special effects, the-making-of, poster, meal service and so on).
- Workshop on audio-visual languages (plans, frameworks etc.)
- Participating in the presentation of the “Constanza Brnčić, IN RESIDENCE project at the Institut
Comas i Solà” at the Mercat de les Flors.
- Collective construction of the illustrated script of the short film.
- Use of the school’s canteen as a work space during the recording sessions.
- Three days of recording Soroll de màquina estèril: globe, short film and dolls.
- Collective decision on the short film’s poster and the director's name: Alejandro de Mí
- Public presentation of the project at Cinemes Texas: Press conference and screening of Soroll de màquina estèril

HOLOGRAM AND RETHINKING THE SPACE (13/9/2018)

A hologram greets the audience.
Students had to decide all together where they thought the furniture should be located to change the hierarchy, uses and comfort of the place, taking account of the previous initiatives.

Each chose their place in the space proposed and there they presented themselves (name and any other things that represented them or which they were thinking about at the time). Fito played videos as a visual and referential recap which ended up situating us in the school. A “Draw my life” based on YouTube videos.

To round off, an exercise was proposed which had to be done at home for the next session: thinking and choosing a video that represented us, that was an element we had not created ourselves but which we felt was our own.

DUBBING (27/9/2018)

Fito proposed a practical session on dubbing using different film scenes. Dialogues were created by groups of two or three people to try and change the meaning of the images of the proposed scenes.

Fito proposed a practical session on dubbing using different film scenes. Dialogues were created by groups of two or three people to try and change the meaning of the images of the proposed scenes.

Fito proposed and developed a theoretical and visual session going over various styles and aesthetics that enable people to talk about themselves. This time using archive material, a recording was made in the first person or with other types of resources (direct examples on video). From this, it was proposed that the group make a minute-long video, where the students would approach the self in whichever way they decided, using the means they considered suitable or had available.

Screening of “Un minut del jo”. Subsequent discussion and analysis of the various approaches to this exercise.

OPEN SOFTWARE: IMAGES AND AUDIOS (8/11/2018)

2 INTO 1: INVOKING GILLIAN WEARING (10/1/2019)

Initiative on films and visual production, through recording, dubbing and exchanging voices and personalities, regarding Gillian Wearing's “2 into 1” proposal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOzzq8YLQ6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvQIei5bA48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQC-AukWCFU

CONTAMINATION SESSION AT THE INSTITUT PRÍNCEP DE GIRONA (11/2/2019)

Presenting and sharing learning around the project, halfway through the creation process, with the school’s teachers.

PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT AT THE INSTITUT PRÍNCEP DE GIRONA (19/06/2019)

Screening of the short film Soroll de màquina estèril and discussion on learning, through questions and reflection from and among participants. The presentation was given at 5 pm, expecting participation from the school's educational community, that is, students, teachers and families. As well as the educational community, people connected to the fields of art, culture and education also took part.

Trip to the Joan Miró Foundation’s Espai 13 to visit Fito Conesa's “El nostre camí queda”. (11/10/2018)

https://www.fmirobcn.org/ca/exposicions/5744/el-nostre-cami-queda

TRIP TO CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA TO TAKE PART IN A VIDEOCREATION WORKSHOP (27/11/2018) (

Through the live editing and work on the concepts of rhythm, arrhythmia and synaesthesia, where sound functions as a decisive tool in the visual narrative.

VANDALISM OR ART? (NOVEMBER 2018)

Proposal put forward by the teacher Joan Fontdeglòria at one of the sessions without the artist. A reflective initiative was put to students on this unexpected development: “An anonymous person has decorated the school’s outside wall, which had been in pristine condition for five months until then. In view of the resulting talk, on the projectile and its meaning, answer in at least 150 words:

VANDALISM OR ART?”

The students’ views on this situation we collected in the project’s blog:

http://blocsenresidencia.bcn.cat/princepdegirona1819/

CONTAMINATION SESSION AT THE SÂLMON FESTIVAL 2019 (6/2/2019) (

Presenting and sharing learning around the project with students, teachers, artists and mediators from other schools taking part in the IN RESIDENCE programme.

The participating projects were as follows:
- Andrés Waksman IN RESIDENCE at the Institut Barri Besòs
- Constanza Brnčić IN RESIDENCE at the Institut Josep Comas i Solà
- Txalo Toloza i Laida Azkona IN RESIDENCE at the Institut Pau Claris
- Fito Conesa IN RESIDENCE at the Institut Príncep de Girona

https://salmon-dance.com/fitxa/contaminacions-06-feb/

TRIP TO EART (ESPAI D’EDUCACIÓ ARTÍSTICA I CREACIÓ CONTEMPORÀNIA) (14/3/2019)

Finding out a bit more about Experimentem amb l’ART, the organisation acting as mediation team in this project, and deciding between the members of the group what and how we should bring about the creative processes that are being deployed.

COLLECTIVE AUTOMATIC WRITING (21/3/2019)

Initiative for creating the audiovisual work's initial script, through a session of music selected by Fito, at random. The audiovisual work title, “Soroll de màquina estèril” [A sterile machine's noise], came about by mistake.

COOKING AT EART (ESPAI D’EDUCACIÓ ARTÍSTICA I CREACIÓ CONTEMPORÀNIA) (28/03/2019)

Get-together for cooking breakfast and reflecting on food and ways of cooking, thereby activating aspects that have to be evaluated around the project.

Starting to set up work teams to produce the audio-visual work (technical direction, artistic direction, script, illustrated script, costumes and make-up, special effects, the-making-of, poster, catering and so on).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo6eiHtlfGU

COLLECTIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ILLUSTRATED SCRIPT FOR “SOROLL DE MÀQUINA ESTÈRIL” (4/4/2019)

“SOROLL DE MÀQUINA ESTÈRIL” RECORDING DAYS: GLOBE, SHORT FILM AND DOLLS (22/5/2019 I 23/5/2019)

The short film was shot in collaboration with Aimée Duchamp (technical direction), Siddharth Gautam Singh (I FX camera) and students from other year groups at the Institut Príncep de Girona (scene from the battle of the globes), where there was no shortage of food cooked by the students.

OTHER UNPLANNED INITIATIVES

- Workshop on audio-visual languages (plans, frameworks etc.)
- Participation in the presentation of the “Constanza Brnčić, IN RESIDENCE at the Institut Comas i Solà” project at the Mercat de les Flors
- Use of the school's canteen as a work space during the recording sessions
- Collective decision on the short film's poster and on the name of the director: Alejandro de Mí