Public Workshops. Led by residents, Entrada Libre.
***There is limited space in each workshop. To attend, send an email to galeria@pocoapocomx.com
Conceptual art. The rules of art / Verena Issel
Monday March 25, 2024, 11 am
How free is art? Are there are rules? And who determines them? Every aspect of our daily lives is permeated to the smallest detail with rules, commandments and laws. Whether in free time or at work, personally or in social interaction, independently or externally: Verena Issel believes that we must talk about rules. Her workshop looks at how rules shape our coexistence and influence self-determination, especially that of women and minorities. In practice, the workshop imposes its own rules for image design. They are then worked on, stretched and overcome in a creative, experimental and provocative way`.
Projection of short films centered in Oaxaca’s Costa Chica and Fiction / Balam Toscano
Monday March 25, 2024, 4 pm
Bodily Architecture / Frida Maria
Wednesday March 27, 2024 11 am
A walk through the center of Oaxaca, inhabiting the public space with dynamics that seek to awaken the perception of the body in relation to urbanism, and collectively generate body dialogues in relation to the environment.
Reflections. Writing about yourself through empathy and listening / Marina García-Vásquez
Wednesday March 27, 2024, 4 pm
This workshop is based on writing about yourself in practice, as a mission statement, generating empathy with a partner and sharing your true self in vulnerability. Through journaling and an empathy exercise we can reflect with each other on what we think we understand. We can validate our own personality by giving and receiving the experience of being heard and recognized in a synergistic way.
To Transcribe is to Translate / Tamara Santibáñez
Friday March 29, 2024, 11 am
Transformation from the auditory to the written The workshop will begin with a presentation on the transcription process of creating a written document from an audio recording. By exploring the conscious and unconscious choices made throughout the conversion, we will understand the transcription process as an act of translation, with all the creative possibilities and dangers it contains.
Experimental calligraphy / Javier Echevarrena
Friday March 29, 2024, 4 pm
A Calligram is a drawing with letters, the gesture of a Typographic composition. Workshop on exploring strokes and expressions with ink. Creation of tools to paint on different papers. Ways to make a sign and spots that bring us closer to a text. (Calligram: poem drawn with letters.)
A possible path towards the metaphor of the territorial body/ Ira Semilla
Monday April 1, 2024 11 am
Cultivate yourself and cultivate collectively.
Inhabit the “territory body”, where sowing is done, rain is made, and life is nourished. Tools to play to work with art and its social validity as a community and creative, and therefore political, tool. Playful dynamics for collective creation and group integration.
Entre. La ciudad y los cuidados / Andrea Bauzá
Monday January 29, 2024 4 pm
In the post-pandemic context, in the public spaces of cities, how are needs of inhabitants cared for? Although care is something particular for every person, what can we understand as collective care? How can we rethink public and private space from the approach of interdependence and autonomy to explore the possibilities of shaping different modes of care in it? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this workshop. Since childhood, play is understood as an important element of learning and relate to others. Therefore, what role does play have in the way we care for each other and ourselves? This workshop is also an invitation to interact in the space public through recreational dynamics that foster social bonds and collective pleasure.
A map to not arrive, a map of hope / Ali Gali
Monday January 29, 2024 11 am
We are locked in streams of wisdom; of time and its many ghosts, of the trees that intersect generations of names, of the wind that lifts the waters and shines in the shadows... We are not alone to bear the weight of destruction, nor can we alone dream and embody the futures of liberation, revolution; of care, justice and vitality. This workshop will ask participants to arrive messy and tangled. We will shape the space collectively and then go on our own journeys to gather information that generous, focused attention can provide. We will combine these paths of wisdom into a map that can materialize the many ways we are sustained and guided when we choose to lose ourselves together.
Cinematographic language in everyday life / Ramon Llavén Zavala
Monday January 29, 2024 4 pm
Analyzing the basis of cinematographic language, as well as examples obtained in everyday life. In addition, we’ll begin to investigate the value and meaning of film editing in cinema.
The River that we are / Perseida Tenorio
Wednesday January 31, 2024 11 am
LISTENING, MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE PROCESSES AROUND WATER. What is your river ? What is water? What is a river? How are we like rivers? These and other questions are put on the table to promote collective discussion, to listen to the water coming from different territories, with various moments of resistance and existence. Through an exploration with body movement, meditation and conversations with water, awareness will be promoted for the recognition of the rivers that inhabit us, seeking to remember through sensory experiences that we are water that connects throughout the universe.
It is a pleasure to be hidden and a disaster not to be found. / Yin YIn Wong
Wednesday January 31, 2024 4 pm
What can we learn simply by looking at ourselves? Through various mediums, under the guidance of Yin Yin Wong, we will approach self-portraiture in an unconventional way.
Spreading the scent of unknown happiness / Linda Zhengová
Friday February 2, 2024 11 am
When was the last time you remember being happy and how would you describe that feeling? Happiness is a concept that transcends language barriers and has the potential to create a shared feeling of compassion and community. My practice revolves around capturing and sharing a certain energetic intensity between individuals regardless of the language spoken. For the last year and a half, I have been exploring the more performative and empathetic aspects of the medium of photography and writing on the topic of happiness. Specifically, what happens when we allow ourselves to let go and unravel our vulnerabilities?
What we see, what watches us / Isabel Rojas
Friday February 2, 2024 4 pm
A micro-workshop to collectively rethink audiences and audiences in relation to our artistic and cultural practices. How do we relate to our audiences? Are we all (also) spectators? In what ways? How do these affect the ecosystem and context in which they occur?
Analogue mutation: starting alone and ending together / Sarah Hakani
Monday February 5, 2023 11 am
FIGHT AGAINST THE LIMITATIONS OF A BOUND BOOK TO CREATE NON-LINEAR AND INTERCHANGEABLE NARRATIVES ABOUT WHAT WAS, WHAT IS AND WHAT WILL BE.
Books arose from the desire to document and disseminate in an indexed and transportable way, something that scrolls did not allow. While they have provided us with structure and linearity, they have played an undeniable role in maintaining violent structures of record-keeping, linguistic hierarchy, and knowledge transfer in general. But what could we imagine if we created books that asked to be reorganized and break these structures of linearity?
Poetics of touch / Ximena Monroy
Monday November 27, 11 am
This proposal wishes to conceive a common imaginary of care for our artistic practices, through subtle touch and caress. In this workshop we are going to convene and nurture sensitive, present and attentive corporalities. We will carry out a guided practice to perceive the language of both internal and external images, from our corporalities in relation to others, as well as with light, space and time.
Image Transfer / Carola Etche
Monday November 27, 4 pm
In the workshop we will learn the artisanal printing technique "image transfer" which consists of transferring photographs to objects of different materials such as tile, porcelain, ceramic, cobblestone, rubble, stones, fabrics, metals, mirrors, glass, wood, among others.
Intended for those who want to explore and learn a manual and artisanal technique, where we will not use traditional photographic chemicals, nor the negative or the dark room.
"Entre Dos Ríos, Con La Madre" / Frewuhn
Wednesday November 29, 2023 11:00 am
This ancestral conversation delves into the profound process of remembering and reimagining matriarchal identity, through multilingual conversations and archival reflections.
A curated testament to the resilience found in the voices of black and brown women, this immersive space transforms grief into a deliberate artistry of healing, where shared narratives become conduits of strength and restoration.
Play the Chorus / Mia Tinker
Wednesday November 29, 2023 4:00 pm
A choir to get together to share space through music + harmony. Choir will be led by Mia (Charly), there is no need to have any singing skills at all to participate - this choir is guided, amateaur, playful, lo-fi! Song TBC.
Reflective Healing / Nala Turner
Friday December 1, 2023 11 am
Within this workshop, explore healing within clay therapy. Participants will be guided through approaches of processing through art making, reflection and somatic documentation––discovering insight into Self, and integrating mind and body.
Reflections on the Libramiento Norte / Santiago Rojo
Friday December 1, 2023 4 pm
Reflections on the Libramiento Norte
Tour to the North Bypass during the walk we will stop at different points to talk about the projects I have carried out in this space, observe the city and generate reflections on the idea of contemporary ruin.
Composite drawing with stencils / Raúl Villaseñor
Monday December 4, 2023 11 am
A series of templates will be used to combine and create images using different colored pencils and markers. The process of drawing and composition is taken as a tool to encourage understanding and appreciation of the artistic phenomenon. Participants can combine iconic images from art history to redefine them and create something new. The workshop familiarizes participants with concepts such as composition, color, appropriation and authorship.
Escribir en voz alta / jo Valdés
Monday December 4, 2023 4 pm
Join me for an exploration of self through writing and being! This workshop will include a series of exercises: a set of journaling prompts followed by moments of deep stretching and breathing. No writing experience required! The exercises, both written and physical, can be adjusted to your unique abilities and capacity in both mind and body. Come as you are! Content warning: some of the prompts will ask you to look deeply at difficult subject matters, namely trauma. Please, remember that everything is an invitation— do the prompts that feel useful to you and skip the ones that don’t.
Mud, mold, manifest: (An)other world-building workshop / Zainab Aliyu
Monday October 2, 4 pm
As Amiri Baraka reminds us, "nothing has to look or function the way it does." In this drawing, molding and mark-making workshop, we will explore the power of manifesting an "other" world of possibility. Inspired by ancestral traditions, we will explore what it means to unearth an outside to carceral, oppressive systems while delving into alternate technologies and ways of being. Participants will work with black mud and clay, connecting with elements of the earth to give shape to their ideas. The workshop will pull from the rich heritage of Barro Negra pottery in Oaxaca, a testament to the creative potential found in everyday objects. Using this as our starting point for practicing imagination, we will envision speculative vessels that carry the hopes, dreams, and possibilities that ask: what else can we hold, and how else can we be held?
Fibers in tension: a physical and collective meditation guided by Angela Brown
Monday October 2, 4 pm
In this workshop we will make cabuyas (handmade ropes) with organic and inorganic materials, familiar and strange, old and new, thinking about the coexistence of contradictions and deceptive binaries within ourselves.To produce the necessary tension to make strong cabuyas, we collaborate in a corporeal way, transforming the “made-by-hand” to the “made-by-body,” reflecting on individual work, collective work and the internal duality of empathetic and supportive forces.
Botanical observation: Grana cochineal and Nopal / Edgar Jahir Trujillo
Friday October 6, 2023 11 am
Participants will build an entomological box for the assembly, observation and conservation of the fine cochineal (Dactylopius Coccus Costa), approaching the world of microscopy.
Unda— Roots in the Sky / Mariana Parisca with sound by Gloria Fierro
Wednesday October 4, 2023 4 pm
This workshop will be an internal perfomance, a visualization exercise to bring new abilities and consciousness to the unconscious. Guided by a verbal narrative and accompanied by incense sculptures and a sonic experience, we will become rhyzomatic roots growing into the creative power of tension and embracing being multiple.
Liminal cinemas to share knowledge about pre-hispanic art / Viridiana Martínez Marín
Friday October 6, 2023 4 pm
Objective: To use filmmaking as a liminal tool to learn about pre-hispanic art from other perspectives and approach.
Curatorship: Xochipilli de Annalisa Quagliata (2018),
Colonizador Incrustrado de Marcela Cuevas (2023)
Macuil de Jael Jacobo (2023)
Coyolxauhqui de colectivo Los ingrávidos (2016)
Redrawing & pastiche of manga and anime as an exercise in composition and dialogue / Kasser Sánchez
Saturday October 7, 2023 11 am / IAGO
The session focuses on a practice of sharing and drawing or redrawing various sources of visual interest that each attendee wants to share with the group. For this practice, some compositions will be made in translucent or transparent material such as acetate or albanene, using drawing as a means of study and recognition process through copying and superimposition of layers or cuts.
Thank you for the shadows / Andrés Vázquez
Monday October 2, 2023 11 am
Thank you for the shadows is a documentary workshop that looks at our ability to create safe spaces for communal dialog and exercise a practice of documenting from a place of shadow and gratitude. Embodying a combination of Japanese and Buddhist philosophies and the physical aesthetics of darkness, participants will adapt meditation practices in groups of two to listen with intention, document one another, and take a personal care for the lasting image of the individual they are paired with. The hope is that in the workshop, Gracias Por Las Sombras participants can create meaningful dialog around contemporary “image capturing”, honor community connection as also personal connection, and recontextualize how they continue to see and record the world. Each person is going to create a one minute documentary
Experimental workshop on expanded listening and ephemeral resistance / Nahun Saldaña
Friday March 31 2023, 4 PM
To listen is to say is to say is to listen (intercultural narrative workshop) / Rafe Scobey-Thal
Monday April 3 2023, 10:30 am
Una breve historia sobre la determinación territorial en México / Miguel Cinta (Margarita)
Monday April 3 2023, 4 PM
(Terreno Familiar - Tlalixtac de Cabrera)
"Oh lord, help Rima sleep" (reflections on the world of dreams and waking) / Noura Al Khasawneh
Wednesday April 5 2023, 10:30 AM
Charcoal drawing workshop / Alfonso Barrera
Wednesday April 5 2023, 4 pm
Realizing creation myths with Photogrammetry / Angeline Meitzler
Friday April 7 2023, 4 PM
Creating complex characters / Diane Jean Mary
Friday April 7 2023, 10:30 am
CYMBOPOGON (voice, body, word) / Marisol Aliseda
Session 1: Monday March 27, 10 am. Session 2: Friday March 31, 10 am
(In Necia)
'Humus': Express workshop on cultural content programming/ Juan Pablo Ruiz Nuñez
Friday November 25 2022, 4 pm
In this workshop we will approach certain processes that make up the process of curating cultural content, taking into account social contexts, historical moments, audiences.
Introduction to the Visible Textile Patch / Rachel Smith and Sam Bennett of @rrepairsshop
Monday, November 21st, 2022 4-6 pm
In this workshop you will learn how to use the Zurcide Repair technique to repair holes and damaged areas in textiles with simple tools. The workshop focuses on creativity and contrast, turning repairs into tiny works of art that celebrate the history of using a textile. You’ll have a skill you can use for the rest of your life, a new appreciation for the materials in your home, and a deeper understanding of the history of repair and how it relates to environmental health. Open to the public, even if you've never touched a needle and thread.
Soy un Rio / Saúl Lopéz Velarde
La central de Abastos
Wednesday November 23, 2022, 4 pm.
UNBLOCK YOUR FLOW! Tools to unblock your creative processes when you're stuck / Gabriela Ortega
November 23, 2022 10-12 pm en Pocoapoco