Sitesize IN RESiDENCE at the School Poeta Maragall

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SITESIZE (Elvira Pujol Masip and Joan Vila Puig)

Collective dedicated to the creation and research on the contemporary metropolis. Since 2002 it develops artistic projects and researches forms of autonomous cultural production and community learning.

With a long career, the following works are highlighted: TERRApolis (2020-21) an audiovisual trilogy about L’Hospitalet de Llobregat that takes place in the journey for the physical, spiritual, human and non-human life of this territory. Serps d’aigua. Les rieres ocultes de Barcelona (2019-20) an urban semiotic project under the effect of the waterways, produced with the support of La Capella. Laboratori d’Aprenentatge Comunitari (2017-18) in collaboration with La Virreina Centre de la Imatge. Agència de Turisme Popular (2016-20) or the construction of an alternative story of tourism in Barcelona. Aprendizaje autónomo (2014-15), research on the forms of creation and reappropriation of life that refer to libertarian culture and pedagogy. The research has obtained a research residence at MNCARS. The touring exhibition ¡Cataluña termina aquí! ¡Aquí empieza Murcia! (2011-14) on urban spaces and popular learning. MAD#sub anotaciones desde el sub-suburbio de Madrid (2010-11), a visual essay on the periphery of the south of Madrid. Valparaíso Aula Permanente (2010) creation of a learning community on the city of Valparaíso (Chile). AMPIN Habitar la palabra (2010) in Valparaíso interventions produced by SEACEX (Chile). Narracions Metropolitanes/ Aula Permanent within the exhibition La comunitat inconfessable (2009) for the Catalan pavilion of the 59th Contemporary Art Biennal of Venice. The project SIT Manresa, Servei d’Interpretació Territorial (2005-08) a public auditorium on the transformation of the city and SIT Umeå Territorial Interpretation Service (2012) at Umeå University (Sweden).

School Poeta Maragall

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This is the sixth time the Poeta Maragall school (L’Eixample) has participated in iN RESiDENCE. Previously, Xavier Bobés, L'Automàtica, Josep Pedrals, Antoni Abad and Raquel Friera and Xavier Bassas have developed creation processes here. In this new twelfth edition, they participate once again with a group of students from 4th ESO.

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The Institut Poeta Maragall (Antiga Esquerra de l’Eixample) was the first mixed secondary school in Barcelona and was also the first in the city to offer post-compulsory secondary education taught as evening classes (1955). Created in 1932 at the height of the Second Republic, its seed was the pre-existing Institut Infanta María Cristina for girls. Its current building dates from 1967. The art education offered in the sixth form at the Institut Poeta Maragall includes the visual arts, image and design, the performing arts, music and dance. 

Presentation written in 2018

Participants

Students from 4th ESO
Marry Fhearl Barba Méndez, Greta Beltran Martínez, Laia Capellades Troyano, Cloe Crespo, Emmanuel de Castro, Meggy Grace Fonollera, Charlotte Herrera, Dominic Luengo Coca, Juan J.Males Cachimuel, Aya Miloud, Claudine Maeka Nabua, Daniela Ospina, Olivia Roig Miralles, Dorian Ruiz Noy, Anita Schiappa, Sashwoot Sheretza, Katherine Silang Villahermosa, León Stuven Aravena, Eloi Valle, Antonella Virzi. 

Teachers
Pilar Domènech and Mariona Sanchez

Curator and coordination
National Art Museum of Catalonia and A Bao A Qu

Management
Barcelona Culture Institute
Barcelona Education Consortium