

The activities begun in the context of highway BR-319, in the state of Amazonas. Therefore, it was in February 2016 that Intervalo-Escola went into the field.
PROGRAMA INTERVALO SERIES
Naming these series of encounters as “intervalo em campo”, or Field Interval, references the moments in which environmental agents leave their cities and go to work in the forest for a determined amount of time. Short intro with images from the road (BR-319) and sites where we work at Amazonia. In sight of each immersion-encounter’s specificity, read next about the main actions of the school until now, in between the states of São Paulo and Amazonas.Ģ.1 Intervalo-Escola: Intervalo em Campo / Field Interval, Amazonas

In times of productive and neoliberal systems of learning, we emphasize the importance of the interval as pause, space to eat, togetherness, talking, living, stopping, reflecting, in a stretched time-period, fermenting informal and interdisciplinary knowledge. Added to that, is our distrust regarding an art scene anchored mostly in the expositive model, leading to our belief in the exchange and processes that occur in an expanded time-period. The project is built from a considerate observation of different art learning methods in Brazil and today’s world, as well as the amplified comprehension of the school’s role in learning and teaching, as an urgent political and social resistance against the contemporary brutality of the closing of public state and rural schools, the deterioration of Brazilian learning system and its massacring interference in all instances: schools, teachers, communities and students. In 2016 we had as guests the artist Ricardo Basbaum, Jorge Menna Barreto and Agustina Comas.

In each edition we invite an artist that can share, live and propose within the group a dynamic related to his work, comprehending his artistic practice also as pedagogical, teaching and learning. Still, we interact with children, teenagers, adults and all those who reside or visit the places in which the school happens. Intervalo-Escola was founded in 2015 by the researchers-etc Cláudio Bueno and Tainá Azeredo, becoming a collaborating network of artists, researchers, institutions and agents of the social and cultural fields. Therefore it becomes impossible the automatic employment of a schooling model-method or a hegemonic knowledge that would be pertinent to all equally, autonomous regarding its contexts.

It is a school without one place, many times welcomed by other institutions or structures, acting as a temporary immersive zone in which each event is composed by specific groups, places, knowledge and context – group-specific context-specific knowledge-specific site-specific. We are simultaneously open to new dialogs regarding the practices and formal concepts of teaching, as well as the conflicts and antagonisms of those systems. Emphasizes collaborative and cooperative models of learning, non-hierarchical, immersive, sensitive and informal. Intervalo-Escola is an experimental school and a practical and critical platform that maps, develops and experiences ways of learning in/against/on/from the art field. Interval as room for that which is possible Interruption pause break slit in time ĭeflation digestion fermentation contamination
