Miscellaneous Projects

Last December I traveled to Granada (Spain) to participate in a seminar entitled TRANSDUCTORES: Pedagocias Colectivas y Politcas Espaciales which brought together some great educators and artists primarily from Spain along with a few of us from the UK, US, Denmark, France, and Argentina. The seminar accompanied an exhibition by the same name and finally after a huge amount of work the catalog for this project is available for order or you can view the pdf of the entire book here.

TRANSDUCTORES

Details in english:

TRANSDUCTORES. PEDAGOGIAS COLECTIVAS Y POLITICAS ESPACIALES
. AA.VV

Editorial: DIPUTACION PROV. GRANADA

Año de edición: 2010

Páginas: 287

Formato: RÚSTICA

ISBN: 978-84-7807-496-9

Idioma: Castellano/Inglés

Precio: 10€

This book represents an open document or guide whose aim, in the first part, is to show the theoretical framework of the project’s work, while the second part contains in a summarised form the various projects compiled in the archive.
Regarding the first part of the book, we should first of all like to underline the interrelation of the theoretical texts offered here, due to the complexity of the projects and their multiple dimensions, so that several approaches are possible, whether from artistic and collaborative practice, from political practice or from pedagogy. Grant Kester gives us a general view of collaborative artistic practices, understood outside a mere contrast between reformists or radicals in their manners of political organisation. To this end, his text introduces the distinction between theological and dialogic action, demonstrating how the latter emerges and contributes to contextual collaborations promoting a participative agency. For her part, Aida Sánchez de Serdio presents us with the problematics of specific politics in collaboration projects, based on a redefinition of the political and institutional dimension of culture and art as a specific, complex mode of action, riddle with power relations and operating under several specific forms of organisation and political structures. Finally, Javier Rodrigo’s text attempts to pinpoint the elements making up a possible collective network pedagogy, providing keys and lines of work that can be located in several examples of the projects analysed, that may serve for reconsideration and learning from the practices and the politics of the projects in TRANSDUCERS.

The second part of this publication consists of a number of analytical summaries of the first projects contained in the TRANSDUCERS archive. These summaries were done using each group’s answers to commonly asked questions, to which we later gave structure, unifying the descriptors of each of the projects included. The summaries this show the elements making up the practices and most relevant aspects of the processes carried our (introduction to the group; origin and development of the project; relation with the context and collaborators; methodologies and results; links, networks and dissemination; references and learning; challenges and difficulties). Each summary is also illustrated with a number of photographs showing both the processes, and the contexts and results. At the beginning of each summary, we provide a sociogram, i.e., a map of the social agents brought into play. This diagram also shows the resulting products, the impacts and expansions in each context, attempting to reveal the structural complexity of each practice and, therefore, their collective pedagogies and spatial politics in action.