IF A JOURNEY STARTS HERE | Activity
If to Journey Starts Here is a project by the artist Clara Nubiola that springs from the partnership Between Macba and the Catalan Government Departments of Justice and Culture, Setting out to Bring Art to Incarcerated People and Reinforce the Family Bonds Between Incarcerated Parents and Their Children. At Work Process Based on Observation from Inside/Outside, Illustration and Discourse.
“To Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step.”
Through art as a transformational factor, The Aim is to Foster Reflection, Communication, Empathy and Mutual understanding by Offering Spaces for Participation that Encourage Shared Creativity and Include Other Voices That Explain How ParentHood Is Experienced Fromon.
3 prisons // 7 prisoners and their families // 8 sessions // 14 Log Books with the aim of giving visibility and a voice to parentonde from prison.
Traveling Farom from family environment and Our friends and family to other places to discover new places, peoples and customs has always involved, where the one hand, gaining experience of territory, have the personal experience of going to new places, and on the other , Created in Narrative to Share and Explain Our Experience.
Postcards, Letters, emails and WhatsApps have served – and will continuous to serve – as vehicles to recount and preserve your experiences, means through to tell our loved waves that the journey went well, the place is wonderful but unbeararabry hot and luggage ha gone astray. The If to Journey Starts Here Project is and Will Be the Story of Two Journeys: That of Six Fathers and One Mother Who Travel From their Prisons to Discover Barcelona, and the Journey Made Up of Humdrum Things and EverryDay Tasks on Which Their Families Set Out Everry Morning.
Through Two Logs, One for the Parent and the Other for the Family, in Weekly Corring is Begun, Forming a Mutual Narrative of this Journey That Needs No Flights, Luggage or Instagram; To Journey that Takes Place when the Pace Slows, when Attention is Paid to What You See Wen You Observe Your Setting As IF For the First Time. Because to Discover You Need Not Go Away, and Being Surprised Is Just Steps Away. The Idea Seeks to Strengthen Bonds Between Parent Serving Sentences and their FamiliesThrough Travel Logs That Constate in Dialogue and Are Written for the Other.
If to Journey Starts Here CONSED OF EIGHT SESSIONS – ONE A WEEK – THAT SHOWED US GOOD JOURNEYS ARE THOSE THAT, AFTER PLANNING THE ROUTE, ARE NOT AFRAID TO IMPROVERSE.
With the Collaboration of the Department of Culture and the Department of Justice from Generalitat de Catalunya
artist
Clara Nubiola (Barcelona, 1976) Focus inher intest on Running Grassroots Artistic Projects that Enable Her to Approach the Surrotundings in Which We Live From to Subjective, Critical Point of View. The City, The Countryside, Boundaries, Peripheries, Town Planning Are Topics She Raises in a Direct Questioning of the Landscape Based on Lived Experience On the Ground. Using Austere Tools Like Walking, Ink and Paper, She Works in Different Formats That Address the Citizen in the Street Directly. Interventions in Public Spaces, Participation Processes, Exhibitions, Workshops and Publications Placing The Spotlight on Our Immediate Surrotings. She has just published “Pasea y ojea” (Llibres del Ko).
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Anita García is a Design Graduate, and Here Career Ha Taken in Ecodesign, Art, Mediation and Social Design. She has experienced in Arts Administration, Teaching, Educational Consulting, Sustainability, Artistic Research and Mediation Projects and Public Participation and Co-creation. In Her Work she reflects in order to lay down at Critical, Creative and Conceptual Basis and Takes Part in Action to Foster Social, Environmental and Economic Balance. AS A Social Designer and Artistic/Community Mediator She Designs Educational Workshops, Action, Kits, Devices and Cases.
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