We
are Spanish born during Franco´s Dictatorship and we develop the performance
POSBOLONIO UNIFORM as a global activism.
Performance
Video
Talk
Yes, we are Spanish. We were born in the time of
Franco´s Dictatorship. We grew up with the first Spanish Constitution, in
Democracy. We lived the slow path towards the individual freedom until we gained
integration in Europe. Indeed, we believed that we were a model nation because
we were on the list of the most developed countries. Nowadays, living in the
second decade of the XXI century, we observe how all those achievements are
destroyed by some perverse political and economic strategies. We are PIGS
(pigs: Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain).
We
have a degree in Arts, we have PHDS, and we are University professors and
artists. We feel that our freedom is being cut down; we feel that we are being
manipulated. We observe how Culture, Arts and Education are suffering a direct
attack, just because they are tools for change, for democracy and for freedom
of critical thought. For all these reasons, we use artistic performance and Art
as a way to react. It is a creative defiance and a sarcastic resistance, and we
wear a military style uniform. It might or it might not be an exaggeration of
what the University could become in the future, and it is also a uniform that
shows tenacity and disrespect to the political and economical measures of our
times.
We would like to share our experience, because we
believe that you may feel that you are Spanish too.
Summarizing:
We are living in very troubled times and as Art
teachers, we are witness to and also the result of the destabilization of
employment within the Public Sector, Public Services and civil rights, three
things which were fought ferociously for over decades. In the face of this we
adopt the position of demanding our rights with a non violent and performative
action (Posbolonian Uniform) based on the following principles:
(DE)POLITICIZATION, of Education. Education cannot be used
as a coin, going from one hand to the other, going from one political side or
another. Education cannot be a place to save knowledge while speculation and
squandering are taking place.
(RE)EDUCATION, of the System. Education in the wider
context, goes much further than Formal Education, and is related to a state of
conciousness, to a personal evolution, to common and individual responsibility.
(RE)CONSTRUCTION. We believe that is necessary to do a
creative reinvention of a System that is falling apart and to fight the fear
that ‘they’ try to implant in our heads, we believe in hard work and in constructive
criticism, even if we have to demand it and in our right to remain non-submissive.
We consciously work knowing the importance of Art and
aesthetic Education as social intervention, understanding this as a mechanism of
freedom and change.
We are going to show key aspects of the matter related
to the evolution of our performance project started in 2011:
1. Evolution of the performance “Posbolonian Uniform”.2. “Posbolonian Enrolment Posts” since the Congress on Artistic Education in Jaén 2011.
3. Micro-action: “Two visible invisible in times of global crisis”, Jaén 2011.
4. Micro-action: “When the performance body breaks down” UCM 2011.
5. “Posbolonian salute”.
6. “Attendance record check playing the cornet”.
7. Micro-action “We get wet” Aranjuez, Faculty of Arts, 2011.
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