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Workshop on cultural management for artists |
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Carlota Beltrame |
Throughout ten years I have acquired a vast experience in teaching art, in a manner that may not be breaking new ground, but that it does so in the context of the official state supported academies, which normally articulate teaching-learning processes according to tradition, not allowing for possible changes. Mi experience relates to graduate training. That is to say, I work with very young students for them to find and develop their own work mechanics, starting from projects that may seem vague in the beginning, but that with time acquire a strong identity according to the personal approach of each student. Nevertheless, I would like to stress the fact that if, on the one hand, at the end of three years’ work one can detect a rather independent discourse, on the other hand, these young artists have not always been able to develop their own thoughts or strategies for the circulation of their thoughts and of their work. So they often fall into complying with the demands from the capital city in the country, conforming to centre oriented formulas. My experience as an artist is similar. I think, therefore, that we face the challenge of planning occasions beyond to the act of teaching art in the studio within a university environment, to try to design a collective project that involves, not only the circulation of the work and thoughts along "horizontal" lines that lead to the strengthening of autonomous contemporary art statements, that at the same time allows artists to work with the conceptual, the specific, the least, their own interests, etc., without having to submit to the approval of a centre that does not have access to the codes of the argument. Finally, I state that every creative process is collective, and it is my responsibility to stress as a teacher that this project has been planned in the context of collective experiences, searches and demands that I have shared with my pupils and my colleagues, within the context of the Art Faculty of the UNT, as well as outside this context. Carlota Beltrame was born in Tucumán, in 1960. She
graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Tucumán National University,
where she is currently teaching full-time in the chair of Studio
Practices III, IV, V ("C" Studio). |
| e-mail: carlotabeltrame@hotmail.com |
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