HYDRA has always had a vocation to generate new forms of dialogue and horizontal learning, through the creation of heterogeneous groups of students and teachers, where the different cultural, geographical and ideological origins generate a space of creation, experimentation and exchange of an enormous and surprising wealth.
At this moment in which uncertainty permeates everything, corporeality is resignified, and we find ourselves in unforeseen and extraordinary ways in vital experiences of dialogue and collaboration, we seek to open a space for the multiplicity of views that will allow us to regenerate our ways of conceiving the other and ourselves, the relationship between the moment, tradition and the future.
The current situation of transformation throughout the world allows us to listen and dialogue about creation, its links to life, the social, political and cultural context in which it is inserted in regions previously out of our reach, allowing us to open up fundamental questions about the very nature of creation and to question the way in which the circuits of validation of art work and our position in relation to them.
HYDRA offers you a new and extensive programme of online seminars and workshops that open up new possibilities for learning, dialogue and collaboration with artists, thinkers and specialists from all over the world.
Exhibition Views, Look, Stranger!: Technologies of Lens-based Practice in South Asia, Presented at Serendipity Arts Festival in partnership with Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, Goa
We open a growing variety of online programs that complement each other, with the aim of offering training from theory, reflection, production of works, photobooks, digital preservation, archive management, as well as technical workshops.
DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
Due to COVID conditions in the different countries of the workshop participants, the starting date had to be adapted to the circumstances of each case.
DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
THEORETICAL SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
REFLECTION AND DIALOGUE PROGRAMMES
PERSONALISED ADVICE
PRODUCTION WORKSHOPS
SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS
MULTIPLICITY OF HYDRA HEADS
AN AXIS AND SEVERAL COMMUNICATING VESSELS
This project is built in two stages:
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MULTIVERSES OF THE INFRAMUNDO
WARP AND WEFT OF STORIES THAT WEAVE TOGETHER THOSE PRESENT
This program seeks to offer, from the multiplicity of moments built by the look of each participantIt is a multiverse of cultures, places, disciplines, reflections, personal stories; it opens up a rich panorama full of new paths, as a basis for other forms ofdialogue, collaboration and productionthat will open up the possibility of other stages and circuits for the circulation and validation of the work from a critical position that includes forms of creation that respond to the needs of communities that are not yet within the hegemonic scenarios of contemporary art.
A look at the threads that connect the present with the traditions that go back to 1500, to the present from different approaches such as philosophy, art, politics, culture. These programs seek to build rafts that allow us to navigate in new waters to create other forms of collaboration, production and dialogue between cultures and, above all, people, in future projects.
Openness to listening to different voices, initiating dialogue and building new ways of collaboration is fundamental to a transformation of our notion of the art medium, asking questions about the place from which we create, the needs of artists, different cultures and places in the world, and how to rethink spaces and circuits of validation that correspond to the reality of a huge part of the world that has been considered peripheral to the hegemonic art scene.
Whatleads us to create? What themes are addressed in different parts of the world? Where do we hope to go with individual artistic production? What are the spaces of validation, museums, galleries, competitions, fairs, publications, that we seek as a goal for our work ? What is the role of photography in different parts of the world and how it relates to local and global society?
The global crisis we are facing urges us to rethink these essential questions to art and reinvent the scene in which we want to develop and grow projects that respond to places previously isolated from each other, and that need to rebuild other ways of thinking, creating and circulating art according to the real needs of artists and the communities and audiences we want to reach.
It is time to rethink these questions, to choose our interlocutors to invent the spaces that allow creation to be enriched by other experiences and thus find new forms of dialogue and circulation of our work.
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Feast for the eyes. Susan Bright. FOAM
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This program is born in the present, an unprecedented reality, which confines us physically and at the same time brings us together through digital media. Fostering dialogue with diverse places, cultures and disciplines, the new temporality of virtuality has allowed us to dialogue in real time with artists, curators, collectives, publishers, writers from all over the world.
Through the multiplicity of voices from all over the world, we open up to the public questions and reflections about photography, art and the time in which we live.
MULTIVERSES OF THE INFRAMUNDO
The Garden of Delights, El Bosco
MULTIVERSES OF THE INFRAMUNDO
WARP AND WEFT OF STORIES THAT WEAVE TOGETHER THOSE PRESENT
COMING SOON
This program throws threads to the tradition to feed the approach to the moment, to the present that unfolds in the HYDRA HEADS, when treating from diverse disciplines, theories and looks perspectives that go from 1500 to the present in an exploration of the ideas and how they become legible in materializations of cultures in diverse latitudes and in temporary crossings.
OTHER ONLINE PROGRAMS
PHOTOGRAPHY AS ARCHIVOLOGICAL PRACTICEJOAN FONTCUBERTA
The application of good practices in institutional photographic archives, private collections or personal archives is the best way to ensure the protection of this artistic and historical heritage.
The purpose of this diploma is to provide working tools to authors, specialists, researchers, personnel working in archives and interested in the management, study and dissemination of photographic collections.
VISUAL ANALYSIS: IMAGE THRESHOLD
EUGENIA MACÍASLIVE ONLINE WORKSHOPNew dates:6 to 28 August 2021
This course offers tools for visual analysis of various expressive-communicative mechanisms of the image.
Various strategies and criteria for visual analysis will be discussed, based on cases of images in archives or the production of artists and managers and researchers who deal with processes of: intertextuality between photography and other plastic supports, discursive plots and archives, visual anthropology, image and living matter, experimental art and links between written and visual testimonies, different supports for visuals of social mobilisations, photographic recording of artistic processes as political criticism and photography of performing arts.
La Papisa. Zaida Gonzalez
I DISAGREEGISELA VOLÁ Y ANA CASAS BRODA | ORGANIZERS
I disagree is a search for meaning and alternative ways of thinking outside of binary thinking. To re-signify reality and reinvent that marginal place and the denied in a paradise of new discoveries from which to think as people.
In this workshop we will have a wide and diverse participation of invited curators, authors and critics from several countries.
Joel Peter Witkin
INVENTIONS OF THE BODY REBECA GONZÁLEZ AND MAURICIO ORTIZ
INVENTIONS OF THE BODY
REBECA GONZÁLEZ AND MAURICIO ORTIZ
Beyond its biological imperatives and the contingencies inherent to its being in the world, the body demands to be invented on a daily basis: in image. If each era promotes an ideal body and insists on a catalogue of bodily anathemas, it is in the face of them that each person invents the image of their body, that singular and dynamic image with which they recognise themselves and present themselves to others. Art concentrates the tension between the acceptance of the ideal and its negation, between the approval of the anathemas and their rejection, between submission and rebellion against the stereotype.
PERSONALISED ADVICE
VARIOUS PARTNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
PERSONALISED ADVICE
VARIOUS PARTNERS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Beyond its biological imperatives and the contingencies inherent to its being in the world, the body demands to be invented on a daily basis: in image. If each era promotes an ideal body and insists on a catalogue of bodily anathemas, it is in the face of them that each person invents the image of their body, that singular and dynamic image with which they recognise themselves and present themselves to others. Art concentrates the tension between the acceptance of the ideal and its negation, between the approval of the anathemas and their rejection, between submission and rebellion against the stereotype.
DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT, STUDY AND DISSEMINATION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONSACADEMIC COORDINATIONGABRIELA GONZÁLEZ REYES AND EUGENIA MACÍAS
The application of good practices in institutional photographic archives, private collections or personal archives is the best way to ensure the protection of this artistic and historical heritage. This diploma course aims to provide working tools to authors, specialists, researchers, personnel working in archives and interested in the management, study and dissemination of photographic collections.
Tier. dienacht
THE PHOTOBOOK: NEW NARRATIVES DIFFERENT GUESTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
I disagree is a search for meaning and alternative ways of thinking outside of binary thinking. To re-signify reality and reinvent that marginal place and the denied in a paradise of new discoveries from which to think as people.
In this workshop we will have a wide and diverse participation of invited curators, authors and critics from several countries.
Paula López Droguett
MOTHERHOOD AND PHOTOGRAPHYVARIOUS GUESTS
VARIOUS GUESTS
Motherhood is and has always been a complex issue. This program gathers the look and the work of different artists, curators, writers, poetxs investigators, performers, from different places of the world, cultures and generations that share us their experiences and inquiries about the theme of motherhood and seeks to open the subject to new looks, collaborations and dialogues.
Yangon Fashion 1979. Lukas Birk
INCUBADORA DE FOTOLIBRO 2021PROGRAM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTHOR'S BOOK WITH DIFFERENT TUTORS FROM MEXICO AND OTHER COUNTRIES
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SINAPSIS 2021PHOTO PRODUCTION PROGRAM
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SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS
Now we also offer you workshops with specialists for the development of specialized photographic technique.
Gerardo Montiel Klint. Melancholy my Baobab seeds
ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING FOR PERSONAL PROJECTS
GERARDO MONTIEL KLINT
Tutorials for different topics of technical work in photography: the use of parameter settings and how to take advantage of them for efficient workflow; the use of equipment and ways of working to make film scanning.
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COLOR MANAGEMENT FILE COLOR CONTROL
AGUSTÍN ESTRADA
Colour management for different outputs such as reprographics, photographic printing and in other processes such as offset.
DIGITAL FILESRAW FILES | SCANNING | REPROGRAPHYAGUSTÍN ESTRADA
Tutorials for different topics of technical work in photography: the use of parameter settings and how to take advantage of them for efficient workflow; the use of equipment and ways of working to make film scanning.
PRINTING PROCESSESAGUSTÍN ESTRADA
Tutorial about the preparation of images for printing in general, covering the series of procedures that have to be carried out in any printing process and that are the determinants of the final quality and also ensure that the copies are the best possible result in various printing processes such as offset, inket and / or laser.
COURSE ON DIGITALIZATION OF DOCUMENTS AND DIGITAL PRESERVATION BASICS ERICK CARDOSO
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