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Jorge Dutor & Guillem Mont de Palol IN RESiDENCE at the School Montjuïc
DIARY OF TESTIMONIAL EXPERIENCES - THE PROCESS
DAY ONE
The first day we did Movement was a Tuesday after break. We thought it would be very boring, but in the end it was not so bad. We started by listening to Jorge and Guillem introduce themselves. Then they explained the activity: it consisted of making a line, silently, all together and walking around the school for an hour. Then we did another activity, in which everybody said everything they knew about you.
VISIT TO EL GRANER. WE MEET SEVERAL ARTISTS
Two visits to El Graner enabled us to discover three very different art projects: a dance piece (Moaré) by the choreographer Ariadna Montfort; a theatre, music and performance (Pelucas en la niebla) by Cris Blanco; and a workshop-piece (Feminismo pop) by Cris Celada and Tomás Castro. In all three cases we were able to take part in rehearsals, talk to the artists and see the work behind a performing arts show. The visit also enabled us to learn about the facilities at El Graner, a centre located in our own neighbourhood.
WE MAKE A HANDMADE FILM WITH BEATRIZ SÁNCHEZ
Bea showed us her creative process. Then our students experimented and created their own artistic product. The idea was to create characters and scenes using stationery and other materials at the school, using lots of imagination, and then to film them on a set assembled on a table and make a video.
We learned what a chroma key is, how to make fun things from very simple materials and how to give free reign to our imaginations.
STICKY TAPE
A kinetic and movement exercise. First, we did a physical exercise: in pairs, one stays quite still as the other rubs their tummy, arms, legs and head. When we finished, we took fifteen tapes and went into the playground. We all sat to form a rectangle. Each pupil had a number, and each one’s number was called they would get up and create a path with their tape.
The problem was that some people did not pay attention and instead of a journey, they drew things. At the end of the activity, we all gave our opinion, for example: imaginative, food for thought, creative, collaborative, etc.
TELEPATHIC ACTIVITY. GAME OR ART?
The activity we did last Tuesday was a practice of telepathy. We made three groups. On a TV screen, one wrote actions that the members of the second group should perform. They were behind the TV and could not see what their classmates were writing. Because they did not know, they had to pretend that they could read their thoughts and perform the actions they thought the others had written. The third group was the audience, and was able to observe the differences between what one group wrote and the others did. It was a lot of fun and very interesting, although it was hard for the pupils to understand the dynamics of the activity. In the end, it was an allegory about the lack of communication between people, although some pupils thought it was just a silly, senseless game.
EXTRASENSORY COMMUNICATION
Nothing is impossible, much less extrasensory communication! The power of the mind rules the world! We have come to perform impossible things!
Extrasensory communication is the direct transfer of one person's thoughts or feelings to another without using the five physical senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. That is why extrasensory communication is also known as the sixth sense.
Type of extrasensory communication:
-Premonitions or precognition: the person claims to have the ability to see situations or events that have not happened yet.
-Telepathy: the ability to communicate mentally with another person.
-Retrocognition: knowledge of a past state through hypnosis.
UNUSUAL EXPERIENCES – A MEETING AT THE SÂLMON< FESTIVAL
El Graner has taken part in the IN RESIDENCE programme for the last six years. This year was the first time that we had curated and coordinated residencies at two secondary schools: Moisès Broggi and Montjuïc (located in our own neighbourhood). We also designed the programme for the Sixth SÂLMON< Festival, and when we saw which artists were involved in the ninth edition of IN RESIDENCE we noticed many possible connections.
As a result, we suggested a meeting at Fabra i Coats - Art Factory as part of SÂLMON< in order to shine a light on these potential collaborations. what all the artists (Big Bouncers, Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol, Anna Pantinat) were doing
We did not plan the meeting as a show or an exhibition of what all the artists (Big Bouncers, Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol, Anna Pantinat) were doing; rather, this was a day when the pupils were the stars, telling us in first person about their involvement in the artistic processes, showing their artistic practice and discovering another reality far from day-to-day life at their respective schools.
We were also joined that day by Nymanyam, an art space and project that fuses different artforms with food as the central element to create shared situations.
