In his long-term research, artist Jordi Ferreiro is interested in exploring models of governance in art organisations. Combining this research and his interests in generating collaboration, self-governance and horizontality in organisational structures, Jordi will collaborate with Bergen Kunsthall’s youth group Unge Kunstkjennere (UKK). Together, they will specifically explore how an art institution can make space for plurality of voices, actions and forms of self-direction and through a series of exploratory sessions will create a set of proposals for how to do this inside the Kunsthall.
#1 : 10-18 August 2018 - research and exploration
Jordi led a series of experiments with members of UKK to explore the Kunsthall building in different ways - from exploring all areas of the building behind the scenes to meeting all staff to thinking about who the Kunsthall feels open to, and who it doesn’t. We visited the Blind Association, who rent some of the Kunsthall’s building but have no formal connection with us, to hear from them about their work with visually-impaired and blind people to make spaces accessible and useable.
#2 : November 2018 - action and takeover
Jordi to comes back to lead an event with UKK, taking over the Kunsthall in different ways working with other youth groups on workshops and events.
Jordi Ferreiro (Barcelona, Spain) is an artist and educator whose projects use strategies based on institutional mediation, performative participation, play and experimental educational movements to interfere in the relations between institutions, art and audiences. These have included interactive tours, collaborative workshops, performative conferences and listening experiments. His research into organisational models has developed recently through the collaborative project ‘como imaginar una musea?’ (how to imagine a feminist museum?) - an ongoing attempt to re-think the art institution from a feminist perspective, run on concepts of collaboration, hospitality and shared access. He co-founded Departamento Exoterico at MACBA, Barcelona - a research department self-directed by students from different universities under the motto “What would you like to learn? What can you teach?”. He has carried out projects in international institutions, including Z33, Belgium; TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica; MAC Bogotá Museum of Contemporary Art, Columbia; and in Spain MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; CaixaForum and La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Commissioned as part of a series of residency-based commissions in autumn 2018 at Bergen Kunsthall exploring feminist organisational practices and modes of communication in imagining different models of working together - and the structures that support this.
Supported by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, with an aim to respond to technological advances that continue to change the ways that we interact, urging us to explore new modes of operation. Re-Imagine Europe is coordinated by Paradiso (NL) in collaboration with Elevate Festival (AT), Lighthouse (UK), Ina GRM (FR), Student Centre Zagreb / Izlog Festival (HR), Landmark - Bergen Kunsthall (NO), A4 (SK), SPEKTRUM (DE) and Ràdio Web MACBA (ES).
#1 : 10-18 August 2018 - research and exploration
Jordi led a series of experiments with members of UKK to explore the Kunsthall building in different ways - from exploring all areas of the building behind the scenes to meeting all staff to thinking about who the Kunsthall feels open to, and who it doesn’t. We visited the Blind Association, who rent some of the Kunsthall’s building but have no formal connection with us, to hear from them about their work with visually-impaired and blind people to make spaces accessible and useable.
#2 : November 2018 - action and takeover
Jordi to comes back to lead an event with UKK, taking over the Kunsthall in different ways working with other youth groups on workshops and events.
Jordi Ferreiro (Barcelona, Spain) is an artist and educator whose projects use strategies based on institutional mediation, performative participation, play and experimental educational movements to interfere in the relations between institutions, art and audiences. These have included interactive tours, collaborative workshops, performative conferences and listening experiments. His research into organisational models has developed recently through the collaborative project ‘como imaginar una musea?’ (how to imagine a feminist museum?) - an ongoing attempt to re-think the art institution from a feminist perspective, run on concepts of collaboration, hospitality and shared access. He co-founded Departamento Exoterico at MACBA, Barcelona - a research department self-directed by students from different universities under the motto “What would you like to learn? What can you teach?”. He has carried out projects in international institutions, including Z33, Belgium; TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica; MAC Bogotá Museum of Contemporary Art, Columbia; and in Spain MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; CaixaForum and La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Commissioned as part of a series of residency-based commissions in autumn 2018 at Bergen Kunsthall exploring feminist organisational practices and modes of communication in imagining different models of working together - and the structures that support this.
Supported by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, with an aim to respond to technological advances that continue to change the ways that we interact, urging us to explore new modes of operation. Re-Imagine Europe is coordinated by Paradiso (NL) in collaboration with Elevate Festival (AT), Lighthouse (UK), Ina GRM (FR), Student Centre Zagreb / Izlog Festival (HR), Landmark - Bergen Kunsthall (NO), A4 (SK), SPEKTRUM (DE) and Ràdio Web MACBA (ES).