WHAT KIND OF ACTIVITIES?
As a cultural mediation center, at Casa da Imagem we conceive workshops and other similar activities on a seasonal and annual basis (depending on the requirements of each training).
Casa da Imagem’s cultural mediation work has more than a decade of experience in the conception and promotion of Artistic and Community Projects, as well as Workshops in various artistic and visual culture areas and with different audiences.
- It promotes contact with the varied material and documentary heritage of the Teófilo Rego Photographic Fund.
- It carries out current and innovative activities, capable of placing in dialogue the History of the Image with contemporary visual productions.
- It empowers students and teachers to be creative and conscious agents in their contexts of action, enabling them to experiment with accessible and replicable artistic workshop practices that foster relationships with the surrounding world.
- It offers accompanied visits to Thematic Rooms, enabling interdisciplinary intersections and the articulation of programmatic contents of the school curriculum through original approaches and didactics.
- It offers work rooms (a teacher can teach at the House autonomously), with access to the equipment, resources and museum objects of the Casa da Imagem Museum.
The workshops are organised by professionals from the arts field who believe that learning in this area evolves from practicing, that is, that artistic learning takes place when what we do is the material result of what we know.
We promote activities based on sharing and on practices that favour constant experimentation and discovery of means, technologies and reflections which come to life through objects/actions.
WORKING WITH SCHOOLS
One of Casa da Imagem’s main areas of action, that we cherich, is the development of projects and workshops with schools. This results from sharing of different realities, experiences, questions, wills and wishes.
Together we search for creating room for a common combined practice, in which artistic education works as the shared basis for research and action.
Casa da Imagem is open to dialogue and cooperation considering that only by acknowledging the existing needs and context of each school a true cooperation can be established.
Given the multiple training and educational demands that schools face these days, Casa da Imagem promotes the creation of a fruitful space for students where they can come in contact with contemporary art and culture. We consider that this should happen, in school grounds or at Casa da Imagem.
SHARING EXPERIENCES
Casa da Imagem promotes activities based on sharing and practices that favour constant experimentation and the discovery of means, technologies and reflections that come to life through objects/actions.
Through always being in constant dialogue with its surroundings we understand the processes of experimenting contemporary art and assume the creating a common ground, where multiple spheres of meaning with different points of reference intersect: from communication and language to the historical, social, philosophical, aesthetical, political and educational dimensions.
Learning takes place when we adopt an attitude of discovery, of exploration and deconstruction, of cooperation, of creating and sharing individual perceptions.
