VOLUME I

RESULTS OF THE PROGRAM
THINKING OUR CONSEQUENCES

RESEARCH IN CONTEMPORARY ART FROM HOME

The actions began in February 2020 when we prepared personal and public spaces to meet with the artists with the aim of developing new research methodologies and collective creation. After the first meetings, dialogues and reflections, on March 15, 2020 a general quarantine was decreed in Peru to contain the advance of Covid-19.

Without foreseeing the magnitude of this context, we maintained contact and the idea of resuming actions when this quarantine period will end. However, the state of emergency was extended and we reached January 2021 without being able to meet, but with the need to resume the program.

In January 2021, we talked to Abril, Arnaldo, Mara and Sandra to meet again and build a collective work methodology virtuality in order to show the results of the program.

It was proposed to take up the collective work and finish it on virtual platforms (Meet, Zoom, Draw.io, and others) in a series of meetings, dialogues or messages with the participant artists between 01.12 and 01.31. These conversations led to a series of visual elements to socialize our reflections with a wider audience through dissemination and archiving.

PARTICIPANTS

Arnaldo Huamani

He is currently studying engraving at the National Fine Arts School of Peru. Using traditional drawing and painting techniques he addresses contemporary issues around psychoanalysis, philosophy, philosophy, religion and fantasy, and their relation between human beings and context.

Sandra Flores

Art-Educator. Currently in the senior year of the Art Education degree at the National School of Fine Arts of Peru. In 2017, Sandra participated in the art residency program "Iwati Parana / On the river" with the project "CONVERSACIONES, Lima - Iquitos". She proposed to explore the identity and affective characteristics of a group of children made up of students from Lima and Kukama village, Iquitos.

María Claudia Ramos

Mara is currently studying Conservation and Restoration at the National School of Fine Arts. Her work is related to the spaces that his family inhabit (Cerro de Pasco and Tacora, La Victoria). Moments that carry multicultural stories to her photo proposals based on objects or family anecdotes, migration and constant struggle.

Abril Góngora

Cloth designer. Currently studying Engraving in the Visual Arts program at the National Fine Arts School of Peru. Butterfly, marika, inverted, cabro, rosquete, cuir. Explores the graphics fields as a Marika resistance tool and artisan paper producer with highly marika and infectious purposes.

RELATIONAL GRAPHICS

We developed work methodologies based on dialogue around 3 key points of art: LOCAL SCENES - PRODUCTION SYSTEMS - ACTIONS / COLLABORATIVE SPACES. This methodology allowed us to find different relationships between the artists. Relationships which they visually created in collective graphics.

These graphics are individual reflections that interact in a collective dialogue scenario, developed on virtual platforms that bring us together despite the distance. The creation seeks to generate awareness of the roles -creators, spectators, students, participants, among other relationships- that make up the art education and production of the participants.

LOCAL SCENES

PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

ACTIONS / COLLABORATIVE SPACES

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DIGITAL PUBLICATION

Read and download the Volume I publication of Thinking About Our Consequences. It contains material generated during the sessions of this edition, texts, relational graphics and the transcription of the conversations with the participating artists.

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CONCLUSIONS

We started the project without knowing its destination. Only predestination, planning or longing for an "ideal end" are in our possibilities. As coordinators we are exposed to the modification of our plans due to time, economy, politics, culture or our own relationship and interaction with the participants.

As is already public knowledge, we all find ourselves in front of an unknown context that modified our programs overnight. We believe it is important to thank Abril, Arnaldo, Mara and Sandra for destroying together our "ideal plan" and transforming it into a collective methodology for the utopian establishment of a greater challenge. Challenge that we present from different virtual platforms.

The proposed of this program was to THINK ABOUT OUR CONSEQUENCES, an objective that we believe has been achieved together with the artists. However, these personal conclusions end up helping us to THINK ABOUT OUR CONSEQUENCES as self management space.

To conclude, we can say that artists and coordinators have built collaborative work strategies, which will be publicly presented through the creation of relationship diagrams, publications, didactic materials that show program results.

It should be noted that we have corroborated the importance of virtual dialogue spaces. The need to dialogue in a horizontal environment that admits different visions about contemporary artistic creation and interaction prevailed was very valuable for the work group. Is important to highlight that we consider it a wise choice to propose this program exclusively to students. Despite the difficulties that this entails, work with students builds opportunities for demonstration, linking and dialogue of young artists with a local scene under construction.

Finally, we consider that this PNC volume, and the artists in it, have proposed more questions than answers, which allows us to continue expanding our work actions to contribute to the local scene described by the team.