Lygia pape, professor: pedagogical practices as artistic practices

Abstract

This essay encompasses notes on the teaching of Lygia Pape (1927-2004), which took place at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro - MAM-RJ (1969-1971), the Department of Architecture at the Universidade Santa Úrsula (1972-1985), the Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage - EAV (1976-1977), and the Escola de Belas Artes at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - EBA / UFRJ (1981-1999). Defining herself as "intrinsically an anarchist", her pedagogical practices “anti-classes” followed the same direction: they vindicated unrestricted freedom for creation and were based on a deconditioning of teaching towards entering states of invention. In this context, the TEIA project, developed with students in the forest of the Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage in the late 1970s, contributes to the debate, by exploring experiments on nonlinear forms of participation, collaboration, and collective action. Based on 'TEIAR' [to web or weave] and 'the new principle of moving upward or downward, to and from: without the harm of a single point of view,' there is a starting point for the modes of co-creation in the radical experimental convergence between the artistic and pedagogical practice of Lygia Pape. The text explores, in the light of contemporary upheavals, the hypothesis of a feminist bias present in the artist's educational guidelines that contributes to the reconfiguration of the sources and concepts of what we debate today as Latin American feminist perspectives.