Encounters in the garden: A converging space between animation and intellectual disability
Abstract
This article aims to narrate the motivations, process and results of Encounters in the garden, an artistic residence in which women with intellectual or developmental disabilities from the Fundación Alas Madrid participated, coordinated by the artist who signs these lines. This project was one of 4 selected in the 2020 edition of the Espacio Convergente program, an initiative launched within the framework of the Más cultura, Más inclusión project, funded by Plena Inclusión Madrid and Fundación Repsol. The residence, developed between October 2020 and June 2021, focused on a multisensory work carried out from the nature of the garden of Fundación Alas, using different techniques such as drawing, engraving, manipulation of objects and the effect of chance, listening and sound experimentation focused on making animated pills. The work culminated with the production, presentation and exhibition of a larger animation and a compendium of the work done. Encounters in the garden can be understood as a collective multisensory journey in which we have worked using repetition, considering the movement of life reflected in the garden. Movement, change, and metamorphosis are pervasive, and constitute us; we have, all together, given life and made that change visible: we have animated.
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