Schools of Context, the third edition of which starts this October, is a study programme that focuses on providing training resources, fields of research and meeting spaces for the artistic community in the city of Barcelona. The goal of ‘building context’ through practice is one of La Capella’s core objectives and has given rise to a series of ongoing subprogrammes specialising in different cusbjects.
Schools of Context encompasses diverse timeframes, rhythms and intensities that also bring to the table certain contextual attributes inherent in emerging artistic practice in Barcelona and make it possible to take a fresh look at the institutional model – at both an infrastructural and a human level – of La Capella, while at the same time questioning that model. The Schools of Context study groups are aimed at the art world and establish dynamics of proximity through small and regular groups that will only be open to the public when the situation demands this.
The people that make up Schools of Context are Anna Pahissa, Alexandra Laudo, Daniel Gasol, Laia Estruch and Jara Rocha, who between them pursue the following areas of research:
PUBLICATIONS – JA Llibreria
Anna Pahissa
JA Llibreria (JA Bookshop) is aimed at people interested in publications produced from artistic practice and the work processes involved. A space to share concerns in this regard, in which we let ourselves be overcome by the drift and imaginative speculation to which the artifact and concept of “book” drags us.
TEXTS – Corda, bumerang, vincle, cordó umbilical
Alexandra Laudo
In every edition of the School of Text, a practical, theoretical and poetic course is proposed in the context of text, words and writing in artistic practice and in their intersections with curating and literature.After completing two editions of Branch, root, shoot, stem, in the 2024-25 season we propose a new course: Rope, boomerang, link, umbilical cord, in which we want to explore the use of the letter format, the correspondence, and its multiple derivations in artistic and literary practice.
LGBTQI+ CULTURE – Transmaricabibollo
Daniel Gasol
Transmaricabibollo (Transfaggotbidyke) aims to consider how LGBTQI+ activism has been exploited by liberal commercialism in its zeal to find new consumers, and how dominant educational spaces distance themselves from a social reality studied in ethnography and sociology. The school consists of people who are not teachers or academics, creating a space for shared and horizontal learning and challenging the synonymy between right and need and the heterosexualisation of the collective to establish its legitimacy, as well as the legislative and social criminalisation of dissident bodies and other non-normative realities.
