Visit-workshop: Visual Maps

1st october 2019 – 30th june 2020

Addressed to: Secondary education

Duration: 2 hours (1 hour of the workshop, and 1 hour of the guided tour)

Groups: maximum of 50 students

Schedule: Wednesday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

This workshop, designed by the artist and activist Yolanda Domínguez, is presented from practice and experience as a form of learning and social change. Instead of working with objects, the artist proposes participatory actions that serve to create new relationships between the social context and people. For this occasion she has designed a practical workshop that will address the topic of image as a driver of change, exploring through various exercises the idea of ​​image as a visual map. For Yolanda Domínguez, an expert in communication and gender, the images we see in the media are behavioral guides that, on the one hand, place us within the social hierarchy and, on the other, tell us which places we can or cannot travel through. Understanding how images work within visual history and, above all, in an era where audiovisual language is the main form of communication, can help us use them in a much more conscious and constructive way. In the workshop, students will work with images from the media, fiction, art history, as well as with the works in the exhibition, analyzing the place given to men and women, the roles that they perform, the implicit violence that exists in them and how art can help question those places and project new ones.

Goals:

– Discover, experience and interpret forms of communication and representation, such as audiovisual language and communication.

– Understand how images work and analyze how they are used

– Analyze and reflect on the different roles in society and the place that men and women occupy in it, stereotypes and alternative models.

– Acquire critical skills regarding the images shown to us by the media.

– Promote empathy.

– Relate to other people by participating in group activities with flexibility and responsibility, promoting dialogue, collaboration and communication.

Activity subsidized by the Government of the Principality of Asturias

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