Irena Visa IN RESiDENCE at the School La Sedeta

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Irena Visa (Banyoles, 1985)

Irena Visa has a degree in Audiovisual Communication, she studied Applied Arts in Sculpture at the Escola La Llotja (Barcelona) and has completed a Master's degree in Artistic Production and Research at the University of Barcelona, in the field of research. Her artistic practice is often interested in signs that indicate hypothetical phenomena in the museum context but also in the natural, urban and artistic environment.

Her work can be seen at the Fundació Miró, the Fundació Tàpies, the Fabra i Coats, the Espai Bòlit, the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, the MAC Mataró, and the Casa de Cultura de Girona, among others. 

In recent years, she has received research and production grants from the OSIC (Generalitat de Catalunya), the Fundació Guasch Coranty, the Ajuntament de Girona and, recently, also from BCN producció (La Capella, Barcelona).

Since 2019 she has been collaborating with the stage company Contenidos Superfluos as a playwright, and her plays have been premiered at the Teatre Lliure, the Sala Hiroshima, the Sismògraf festival (Olot), the GREC festival and the Viu Montjuïc festival. 

She has been a resident artist at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica for the last two years and is a lecturer on the Arts Degree at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).

Presentation updated in September 2023

School La Sedeta

https://agora.xtec.cat/ieslasedeta/

The school is set within the premises of the old Pujol i Casacuberta textile factory, known as La Sedeta for its silk fabric production, which closed down in 1975. At that time, an intense community movement led the Town Council to expropriate the site occupied by the factory, thus halting the project for the construction of housing by a banking institution, and the start of the current equipment project. The factory site, which is part of the historical and artistic heritage of the city of Barcelona, now houses the La Sedeta Primary School, the La Sedeta Secondary School (opened in 1983) and the La Sedeta Civic Centre.

Presentation updated in September 2024

Participants

4th ESO students

Teachers

Silvia Masdeu and Carme Romero

Committee and coordination

Fundació Joan Miró de Barcelona and A Bao A Qu

Management

Institut de Cultura de Barcelona

Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona