We are a cultural organization established in 2013, formed by visual, performing and audiovisual artists and social researchers, who combine their knowledge and experiences to generate transformative personal and collective practices based on respect, solidarity and good coexistence among us and other beings that inhabit the world.
We create community-based art-education experiences through participatory and playful methodologies for horizontal dialogue, peer learning and collective creation in archaeological sites, schools, public spaces and cultural centers. Along this path we have carried out workshops, labs, interventions and long-term processes with children, teenagers and public school teachers.
We developed this project during 2020 and 2021 gearing it to pandemic times and forced confinement due to COVID-19. We shared online workshops with children and teenagers from República Federal de Alemania School and nearby neighborhoods surrounding the archeological site of Mateo Salado in Cercado de Lima to express their ideas, interests, concerns, fears, dreams and memories through audiovisual language. All of this during a distance learning context in the Peruvian schools.
It is a Peruvian or a Latin American map installed in a public area which allows us to invite the people that walk by to tell their migration story or their families' migration stories by embroidering their route over the map, they are also asked to provide a short written story, to highlight and share the changes produced by their migration process and understand that our region is inhabited by "people of every race and walk of life".
This project generated a collective creation through "The Shadow Play", drawn from the neighborhood memories recognition and different issues related to violence, with the children and teenagers from Mateo Salado neighborhood, they created their own stories using their imagination, creativity and group work. The plays were presented in the archeological site of Mateo Salado during its on-site period, and online in partnership with Republica Federal de Alemania School due to the COVID-19 pandemic period.
We started our adventure as COMUNESPACIO with this project in 2013, in the archeological site of Mateo Salado and the surrounding neighbourhoods such as Cercado de Lima, Breña and Pueblo Libre. Through art workshops, games, activities in the public area and festivals we learn about our past and reflect on our present to build a better future together. Our cornerstones are the horizontal learning approach, respect and solidarity among children, teenagers and their families.
We share the publications we have made so far, so that you can download them and use them in your projects and reflections. We hope that this can contribute with methodologies, knowledge and practice in artistic, cultural, playful and community practices.
