Activities, exhibitions and projects

Image: Eilyn Pérez Amores, Memoria, 17/05/2024

From February 2023 to July 2024

Proposal for research and participation through a collaborative artistic-anthropological methodology to contribute from Art and Anthropology to making visible the relationships that occur at the intersection of gender and the environment, and the potential of art as a vehicle for change. A look at the intersections between Art, Gender, and the Environment through hybrid methodologies of Art, Anthropology, and Biology, to respond to the need to keep alive this memory eroded by the hierarchy of knowledge, but also as a further effort to disseminate and understand its contributions, as a living heritage with its own agency.

We start from the capacity of Art and Anthropology to capture and delve into contested terrains from their transformative potential and also as a tool to disseminate issues linked to the ecological agenda. We understand that the ecological agenda is inseparable from that of equality and the struggles for social integration, understanding how these are today influenced by the cultural diversity present in globalization processes. We work from and on the relationships that occur at the intersection of gender and the environment and the potential of art as a vehicle for change.

It explores the power of artistic images and the capacity of art as a tool to generate meta-reflexive proposals. It advocates for transdisciplinarity and working from hybrid methodologies to address the various issues framed within the relationships that occur at the intersection of gender and the environment, under the umbrella of art. It seeks to value the most vibrant and dynamic elements of practices related to nature and the environment, while also increasing environmental sensitivity as a means to foster attitudes of respect for the environment, facilitating the students' connection with heritage from a gender perspective.

It develops different actions from which to contribute through art to ecological awareness and equality, giving a face to the trajectories, actions, and lives of many women who make these tasks, in many cases, everyday, a shared heritage. The proposal includes 6 outcomes developed from hybrid and participatory methodologies where: 1) the cycle of meetings "Art, Gender, and Environment," 2) the collaborative garden Tara, of single-parent families, 3) the ethnobotanical garden, to value the knowledge of popular medicine by women in the Canary Islands, 4) the virtual exhibition "Portraits of Gender and Heritage from the Care of the Earth" through the art of photography, 5) the documentary series "Arguing in the Little Garden," audiovisual capsules of interviews with women and their life trajectories, and 6) "Domestic Recipe Book: Witches and Healers in the Canary Islands," a recipe book of traditional healing knowledge of the women of the islands. We seek to generate a space for reflection, collaboration, and creation through healing local traditions and the territory, from the stories of the women who generate, preserve, and live the interest.