DouAções: Atelier of collective painting inspired by Ivan Serpa, October 12th, 2011. Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art of MAM Rio (2009-2013). Photo: Ignes Albuquerque and Taisa Moreno
Credits & Acknowledgments
Revista MESA
Editors
Jessica Gogan
Luiz Guilherme Vergara
General Coordinator
Jessica Gogan
Executive Producer
Sabrina Curi
Research and Production Assistant
Caroline Bellomo
Site design
Monocromo
MESA Visual Identity
Dupla Design
Print Issue Design
Azougue
Press Officer
Bárbara Chataignier
ISSN: 2319-0264
4ª Issue: Past as Blueprint
Hybrid Practices/Limit Zones
Cover Images
Pluridimensional workshop facilitated by Helio Eichbauer, c.1975. Instituto Rubens Gerchman and Helio Eichbauer archive.
Contemporary Laboratory: Experimentations, December 2014, Casa Daros, 2014. Photo: Jessica Gogan.
Collective action and wall painting behind abandoned land. Irradiations Project, Maré Complex. Photo: Gabriela Gusmão, 2010.
Tucumán Arde. Graciela Carnevale archive.
Palle Nielsen. The Model: A Model for a Qualitative Society, 1968. Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona archive. Photo: Palle Nielsen. Courtesy Palle Nielsen.
Pablo Helguera, Addams-Dewey Gymnasium, 2014, SAIC Sullivan Galleries. Photo: Tony Favarula.
Cultural action “El pueblo tiene arte con Allende,” Salvador Allende Presidential Campaign, 1969. Photo: Luis Poirot. Fundación Salvador Allende archive collection.
Michael Rakowtiz, Every Weapon Is A Tool If You Hold It Right, 2014, SAIC Sullivan Galleries. Photo: Tony Favarula.
Editorial
“Past as Blueprint: Hybrid Practices/Limit Zones”
Jessica Gogan
Luiz Guilherme Vergara
Think Piece
“Utopian (I) Margins: Counterflows of the Future”
Edson Luiz André de Sousa
Case Studies (National)
Rubens Gerchman: With the Resignation Letter in My Pocket and the Contemporary Laboratory at Casa Daros
Editorial committee: Beatriz Coelho, Diana Kolker Carneiro da Cunha, Luan Machado, Michel Schettert, and Raphael Giammattey
- Parque Lage 1975 – 79: An Experimental Art School and its Contemporary Resonance: A Conversation with Clara Gerchman (director Rubens Gerchman Institute), Bia Coelho (artist), Bia Jabor (art and education manager Casa Daros) and João de Albuquerque (artist educator Casa Daros)
- Diana Kolker Carneiro da Cunha and Lab Collage: “The Poetics of Encounters: Contemporary Laboratory: Proposals and Discoveries of What Art Is (Or Could Be)”
- Lab Collage: “12 Houses of the Laboratory”
- Look, Imagine, Listen, Feel: A spectacle conference
Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art at MAM Rio
- Jessica Gogan: “A Conductive Experimental Thread in Education and Art”
- Gabriela Gusmão: “Contagious Empathy”
- Mara Pereira: “For a Minor Education, a Minor Museum and a Minor Art”
- Sabrina Curi: “DouAções: Sharing the State of Creation”
Case Studies (International)
Museo da La Solidaridad
- Claudia Zaldivar: “A History without Precedent: Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende”
A Lived Practice in Chicago:
- Mary Jane Jacob: “Living Chicago Histories”
- Kate Zeller: “Experiencing Lived Practice”
Article: “Free Universities”
Sergio Cohn
Video Interview
“The Model: A Model for a Qualitative Society,” 1968
Photo Essay: Vectors
Graciela Carnevale
Collaboration
Casa Daros
Instituto Rubens Gerchman
School of the Arts Institute, Chicago
Museo de La Solidaridad Salvador Allende
Copy Editing
Itamar Rigueira Jr. (Portuguese)
Sherrie Flick (English)
Translation
Portuguese to English – Jessica Gogan with Beatriz Coelho (“Rubens Gerchman: With the Resignational Letter in My Pocket and Contemporary Laboratory Case Study”); Rebecca Atkinson (Mara Pereira: “A Minor Education”) and John Tabor (Sabrina Curi: “DouAções”)
Spanish to Portuguese – Joana Bergman
English to Portuguese – Marise Barros
Camera and Editing
Chloé Le Prunennec (Look, Imagine, Listen, Feel: A Spectacle Conference and The Model )
Daniel Leão (Look, Imagine, Listen, Feel: A Spectacle Conference and The Model)
Acknowledgements:
This magazine would not have been possible without the generosity of the contributors and the collaboration of diverse organizations and individuals:
To authors and their institutions: Bia Jabor and João de Albuquerque and Casa Daros (also to the former director of Art and Education Eugenio Valdés Figueroa and producer Fernanda Castilhos); Clara Gerchman and the Rubens Gerchman Institute; Claudia Zaldivar and Museo de La Solidaridad Salvador Allende; Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller and School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Sergio Cohn and Azougue editorial.
To individual contributors: Edson Luiz André de Sousa for his ‘think piece’; Chloé Le Prunennec and Daniel Leão for their film and editing work; Gabriela Gusmão, Mara Pereira and Sabrina Curi for their essays on the Nucleus and Gunila Lundahl, Lars Bang Larsen, Magnus Bärtås, Maria Lind and Palle Nielsen for their contributions to the videos on The Model and New Model.
We are also grateful to the artists of the Contemporary Laboratory, all of the special guests who participated in the Laboratory, Casa Daros, Coletivo E and the editorial committee for the case study “Rubens Gerchman: With the Resignation Letter in My Pocket and the Contemporary Laboratory at Casa Daros”: Beatriz Coelho, Diana Kolker Carneiro da Cunha, Luan Machado, Michel Schettert, and Raphael Giammattey, especially to Diana for her coordination and to Beatriz for her transcription of the case study interview and translation of the case study texts into English.
Also, we would like to to especially thank Luiz Camillo Osório and MAM Rio for the opportunity to experience and weave with the experimental history of the museum and especially all of the artists, educators, producers, and collaborators who engaged with the trajectory of the Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art at MAM Rio (2009 – 2013). In addition we are grateful to Elizabeth Varela and the Center for Documentation and Research at MAM.
An important acknowledgement to Monocromo for their web design and production, in particular to Gabriela Zuquim and Leticia Verona.
Additional thanks to the Hélio Oiticica Municipal Art Center, Frederico Morais, Palle Nielsen, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona and Tensta konsthall for their generosity in giving and allowing us permission to publish images in their collections.
Finally, a special thank you to those who were key in the early stages of Instituto MESA and to enabling the project of Revista MESA: Dupla Design, Paulo Hauss, Renata Montechiare, and Xico Chaves.
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