Activity
From December 1, 2024 to March 9, 2025
Tours for groups and schools to Teresa Solar Abboud. Bird Machine Dream
As part of the exhibition Teresa Solar Abboud: Bird Machine Dream, MACBA offers the chance to visit the exhibition in the company of artists and researchers Albert Gironès, Eva Paià and Marina Ribot Pallicer.
This exhibition establishes a dialogue between fiction and reality, and delves into narratives surrounding the process of juxtaposing new forms and plastic finishes that allude to the organic world, together with smooth and shiny industrial aesthetic finishes. Combining recent works with early projects, the exhibition reinforces the presence of sculpture with the practice of drawing – understood here as a reflection and organisation articulated around the perception and experience of the origin of each form – as well as the ideas that orbit around them.
These visits introduce the public to the constellation of concepts with which the exhibition overflows. The artists and researchers accompany the tour from a thoughtful, critical point of view of the museum institution and caring : who generates the narrative of an exhibition? What meanings are activated within these walls? Who looks after the museum and the artworks?
Above and beyond a conventional tour, in which content is transmitted in a hierarchical, individual way, participants are helped to construct a collective narrative about the exhibition, creating a dialogue about everybody’s knowledge. The museum ceases to be a sealed-off, inaccessible place to become a space for shared reflection.
This activity fosters skills-oriented learning based on action and communication, using strategies and contents that can be projected beyond the activity and the museum context. In turn, this context is approached as a place to develop basic, specific skills in the art and humanities spheres, as well as education in civic and ethical values. Through a dialogue with the artworks, this approach fosters quality language education and a commitment to accessibility, standing for making educational curricula, which must be adapted to different learnings, universal. It includes a gender perspective and the values of citizenship, democracy and global awareness , seeking to construct a diverse, fair society. It also sets out to foster students’ emotional well-being with interventions that aim to encourage self-expression and a connection with other people. The key skill worked on here is that of cultural expression and awareness.
From November 21, 2024 to March 9, 2025