Young Africa: art and diaspora.

An experience at the University of Lleida

Authors

  • Maria de Sequeros Astudillo Pombo Universidad de Lleida
  • Alfonso Revilla Carrasco Universidad de Zaragoza
  • Núria Llevot Calvet Universidad de Lleida
  • Olga Bernad Cavero Universidad de Lleida
  • Christian Coffi Hounnouvi Universidad de Nantes (Francia)
  • Àlvar Calvet Castells
  • Papalaye Seck

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15257/ehquidad.2023.0003

Keywords:

Interculturality, Youth, Seminar, Education, Visual Arts

Abstract

This article is the result of an inter-university, international and transdisciplinary experience carried out at the University of X with the collaboration of the University of Y in the academic year 2021-2022, in which other groups and institutions also participated, on Young Africa: art and diaspora. Two seminars were held, a theoretical-practical one with students of the Degree in Social Education on the black-African artistic object as a reference of cultural pluralism and another international seminar with three papers on Art, resilience and rehumanisation, which dealt with music, dance and orality as a resilient therapy in African and Afrodiasporic traditions; an initiative on Top Manta, which is the brand of the commercial project of the Sindicato Mantero and, finally, a practical proposal to intervene from the artistic context in groups at risk, i.e. three proposals combined with an exhibition on Black African masks entitled "Learning to see the invisible".

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Author Biographies

Maria de Sequeros Astudillo Pombo, Universidad de Lleida

Teacher and researcher at the University of Lleida. Professor of the Didactics of Plastic Expression area of the Department of Specific Didactics. She has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Social Work. She is currently part of the Culture Commission of the University of Lleida.
Her lines of research focus on the didactics of the visual arts and in the study of various works by Leonardo da Vinci. During the last years she has carried out research stays in Italy and France.
She is part of the inter-university group of intercultural education and African art that, during the month of May of each year, since 2014, holds an international seminar aimed at: students, teachers and specialists

Alfonso Revilla Carrasco, Universidad de Zaragoza

He has completed his training at the universities of Zaragoza, Salamanca and the Complutense University of Madrid, graduating in Education (from the University of Zaragoza) and Fine Arts (from the Complutense University). He completed her training with a Master's in Advanced Studies in Art History and a Master's in Museums: education and communication, as well as a doctorate in Educational Sciences and Specific Didactics. Currently, He coordinates the teaching and research of the Plastic Expression Area at the University of Zaragoza. In the field of teaching and research, he maintains several lines of research in the didactics of black African art, both in the field of Higher Education and in the Museum. At the same time, he carries out several teaching innovation projects at the University of Zaragoza, together with the work in the Research Group of the Government of Aragon (ARGOS). He directs different transfer projects (OTRI).

Núria Llevot Calvet, Universidad de Lleida

Professor at the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain (Serra Hunter Program of the Generalitat de Catalunya).
Her lines of research focus on mediation and intercultural education, religious diversity, ethnic minorities and cooperation between Africa and Europe. She has made several stays of research at universities such as Sherbrooke, Quebec, Montreal, Paris, Mostar, Dakar, Padua, Bologna, Rome... She has given lectures and training courses in various centers and has published articles in magazines, as well as book chapters and books. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the "INDEST" Research Institute and of the GR-ASE Research Group "Educational and Social Analysis" of the UdL.

Olga Bernad Cavero, Universidad de Lleida

Professor of the Department of Pedagogy of the University of Lleida and collaborating professor at the Open University of Catalonia. Her lines of research focusesare focused on the sociology of education, history of rural education, family-school relationship, cultural and religious diversity, and inclusive school. She has conducted research, teaching and training stays at the universities of Montréal, Romatre, Bologna and Dakar; She has participated in National and European research and transfer projects; She has given lessons at  Università di Bologna (Italy) and University of Andorra (Andorra). She has taught conferences and training courses in different centers and has published articles in renowned magazines, as well as book chapters and books. He is a member of the GR-OSE "Educational and Social Analysis" of the UDL, of the Chair of Socioeconomic Studies and depopulation of the rural territory of Lleida and also of other interuniversity networks and groups, highlighting: the Ibero-American Network of Education In Rural Territories (Ribeter), the International Network for Research in Educational Law (Riide) and the Interuniversity Group of Rural School (GIER).

Christian Coffi Hounnouvi, Universidad de Nantes (Francia)

Christian Coffi Hounnouvi is Professor of Spanish – L.E.A (Foreign Languages Applied to business) at the University of Nantes (France) since 2014.
His research focuses on localized cultural and linguistic identities and heritages, minorities and rights, decolonialisms, also on issues related to the marketing, representations and stereotypes. He is a member of the CRINI (Center for Research on National Identities and Interculturality). He has made stays at universities such as St-Louis of Senegal, Malaga, Abomey-Calavi, Salvador de Bahía... .
He has also published in various international journals and organized several scientific meetings.

Àlvar Calvet Castells

Graduated in Fine Arts. He works with video, action, posters, and other elements that would define him as multidisciplinary, although he often defines himself as a painter. His work began in the mid-1990s with an interest and concern for the distancing between art and the public with proposals in which interaction with the viewer was the main reason.
Subsequently, his work will be introduced in contexts or, as some critics have often said, will focus on the social to give visibility to groups in danger of exclusion. In recent years he has introduced political and/or protest aspects in some of his works, characterized by a commitment and immersion in the so-called “social art”. He has various recognitions and awards to his credit, such as the First Prize Tapiró for Painting from the Provincial Council of Tarragona and the First Prize XYZ from Lo Pati Art Center in Amposta. A part of his work has led him to activism, becoming one of the defenders of good professional practices in the Assembly Platform of Artists of Catalonia, an activism that has also led him to form part of various groups such as La Trastera, and to curating multiple exhibitions.

Papalaye Seck

Spokesperson in Catalonia for Top Manta. Brand of the commercial project of the Mantero Union or Popular Association of Street Vendors of Barcelona, Popular Cooperative of Street Vendors of Barcelona, ​​SCCL.
It is a group of around 300 people, mostly Senegalese, who reside in Barcelona. Its activities are focused on promoting and favoring the employment of people who are dedicated to street vending, providing assistance and economic resources to the most vulnerable people within the group,  fight against racism and the structures that allow it and create sociological research projects and cultural material.

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Published

2023-01-09

How to Cite

Astudillo Pombo, M. de S., Revilla Carrasco, A., Llevot Calvet, N. ., Bernad Cavero, O., Coffi Hounnouvi, C., Calvet Castells, Àlvar, & Seck, P. (2023). Young Africa: art and diaspora. : An experience at the University of Lleida. EHQUIDAD. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WELFARE AND SOCIAL WORK POLICIES, (19), 65–102. https://doi.org/10.15257/ehquidad.2023.0003

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No. 19 (2023): January - June

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Artículos