Sojornar

The Santa Mònica hosts the Sojornar project, which is based on a reverse artistic residency with the Escola Drassanes.

The concept of a reverse artistic residency is based on the contamination between artistic and educational practices, making the students of the Escola Drassanes the ones who intervene and occupy the arts centre, and not the other way around. The 4th grade pupils of Escola Drassanes are in contact with the artists who are part of the exhibition cycle, as well as with the artists in residence (the Mòniques) at Santa Mònica.

This year is the third edition of the project, which was promoted by the resident artists of the Education Guild 2021/2022, made up of Elena Blesa, Jordi Ferreiro and Alba Rihe. In the first edition, Sojornar was linked to the exhibition The tradition that runs through us, and to the celebration of 10 years of the Escola Drassanes in the neighbourhood.

The second edition consolidated the alliance with the Escola Drassanes and the Education Guild 2022/2023, made up of Gemma París, Alejandro Santaflorentina, Marta R. Chust and Alba Rihe, which developed the residency week at the Santa Mònica. The project was based on the exhibition Utopia Ramblas and the relationship between the children of Drassanes and the neighbourhood where the school is located.

In this third edition, Sojornar is formalised as a stable project of the Santa Mònica in collaboration with the Escola Drassanes and a mediation team, and will be linked to the exhibition cycle El otro lado, based on the idea of traffic as the axis of artistic research.

Sojornar 2023/2024 will be held from 12 to 15 March. During these days, students and teachers will move to Santa Mònica to remain as an active agent of the organism that makes up the internal community of the centre. Throughout this time, children and teaching staff - together with the resident artists, the centre's team and some of the artists in the exhibition - will go through various collective learning situations that will break down the traditional logic of who knows and who doesn't know, who learns and who has to teach, who is an artist and who is the public, and what are the spaces where we can learn and those where we can have a good time.

In collaboration with:
Escola Drassanes

Sojornar 23-24 has a great driving force made up of artists and educators: Alejandro Santaflorentina (artist, educator and researcher), Alba Rihe (artist, educator and researcher), Gemma Paris (artist, educator and researcher) and Marta R. Chust (artist, educator and researcher), Núria Diaz Soler (primary education teacher), Mercedes (primary education teacher), Chaure Catalan (primary education teacher), Aitor Fernández Morote (primary education teacher), Jordi Paloma Bertran (primary education teacher), Jordi Paloma Bertran (primary education teacher), and Sonia Benítez (primary education teacher), Mercedes (primary education teacher), Chaure Catalan (primary education teacher), Aitor Fernández Morote (primary education teacher), Jordi Paloma Bertran (primary education teacher), and Sonia Benítez (primary education teacher).

And the accompaniment of:
Marta Gracia Valladares, head of mediation and education programmes at Santa Mònica.
Fernando Hernández, researcher
Maria Roda Otero, student of the Master in Visual Arts and Education: a constructionist approach at the University of Barcelona.

The participation of:
Gastronomy Guild 23-24 at Santa Mònica
Edition Guild 23-24 of Santa Mònica
Communication Guild of Santa Mònica
val flores, writer, lesbian teacher and activist for sexual dissidence
Anna Irina Russell, artist of the exhibition The Other Side
Francesca Llopis, artist of the exhibition The Other Side
Núria Martínez-Vernis, poet interviewed for the exhibition The Other Side
Team of curators of the exhibition The Other Side
Ferran Utzet, curator of the exhibition The Other Side
Enric Puig, curator of the exhibition The Other Side and director of Santa Mònica

Hospitality and support in the production of:
Information and mediation team of the exhibition spaces of Santa Mònica
Santa Mònica's technical team
Santa Mònica's maintenance team

And the involvement of:
Escola Drassanes management team