Stories of Spaces | Bêka&Lemoine
27.06-30.07.2024

Classroom: a Teenage View examines the impact of school spaces on youth development. Curated by Joaquim Moreno, with Ivo Poças Martins, the installation was previously presented at arc en rêve (Bordeaux), CCB (Lisbon) and Z33 (Hasselt).

The idea for Classroom, a teenage View was inspired by the dire condition of a generation that had to experience the transition to adulthood during a pandemic. The experience of confinement with respect to learning was paradoxical: it transformed the students, who were forced to study from home, without really modifying their learning spaces, which remained unchanged when they returned to collective education. Two years were enough to create a gap between needs and reality.
This archaeology of adolescence was organized through the dominant tool that shaped it in the second half of the 20th century: the classroom. How were these spaces designed? How were these learning communities generated? To what cultural and social ecosystems are they subjected? What made them into political bodies? How have standardisation and transgression shaped artistic education? How does vocational education reorganize relationships between work and knowledge?

This program is part of the MaisFRANÇA 2025 initiative, promoted by Institut Français du Portugal.

Supported by Criatório Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, E.M., S.A., and Direção-Geral das Artes.