The Profesolary
Starting from Professor Revillod's animalarium and the idea of the exquisite corpse, we decided to make a 'profesolario' to introduce the 5th grade students of CEIP San José Obrero to the idea of remix and collage. The objective was to show them remixing as a tool to create new things from existing ones. The 'profesolario' began as a graphic project to evolve towards the musical...
The Chymera professor
We thought of each subject from the head, trunk and arms and legs, creating an associated phrase. From there, the phrases and bodies were decomposed to recompose again randomly and thus, create new subjects remixing their teachers, here you can see some of the results:
The musical Chimera professor
Once the profesolario was built, we turned it into a music profesolario to work in the classroom on the idea that our origin is diverse, starting with that of the teaching staff. We asked the teachers where their families came from and we prepared a remix set with fragments of traditional music from those areas.
We associated rhythms, accompaniments and songs to the 3 parts of the teacher's body to explore the origins and remix the bodies and the music.
In the evaluation we did at the end of the first trimester, some students asked us why we didn't do the professolario but with them... this was partly the germ of the musical life stories.
Concierge
During the first year at San José obrero we were working in a classroom at the entrance of the school, where Manuel -the janitor- had his office. When we made the figures for the workshop, he asked us to make one for him to show his wife. His family was laughing their heads off, he told us....
Professor Sanjomix
One of the activities we had planned for the 2019-20 school year at CEIP San José Obrero was a workshop for the whole school. But we have not been able to finish it, the confinement has readjusted all the priorities of the center to solve and make possible the distance teaching with the diverse and difficult realities of the families of the school.
It has been our third and last year in the school within the 3-year project funded by the Carasso in the call for Resonances (Art and School) of 2017, and at the same time it is the first year that the center begins to be part of the PLANEA network.
The Sanjomix professolary seemed to us to be an activity that was located as a kneecap of these two processes that have overlapped in the center, and that we live in a special way. On the one hand, we closed a three-year process working in the third cycle of primary school, an incredible experience of learning and enjoyment. On the other hand we would love to continue being part of the center and designing new activities for the two previous cycles and infant within the new PLANEA framework.
In relation to the process that we closed, the teacher represented the desire to collaborate with the teachers that we have not dealt with in these first 3 years, and also the desire that we had received from them to work with students of other ages.
In relation to the process that is opening with the PLANEA network, the professolario represents our way of understanding the possibilities of remixing as a tool to rethink the curriculum from art, as a strategy that is in the genetic code of the center, its students and the neighborhood where it is located.
To be continued...
team: RubĂ©n Alonso (coord.), Fran Torres, Nuria GarcĂa, Daniel GĂłmez, Esperanza Moreno, Miguel VĂĄzquez-Prada and Juan Antonio Ruz.
evaluation and follow-up: MarĂa Delgado (Social Leitmotiv)
Teachers of CEIP San JosĂ© Obrero: Ana PĂ©rez, Nandy DurĂĄn, David Villaraviz, Miguel Rosa, Inmaculada Navarro, Teresa RodrĂguez, MarĂa Albadalejo, Mercedes Ruiz, Emilio Plaza...
institution: Carasso Foundation + ICAS (co-financing)
year: 2017
