intra-accions

Intra-accions is a project that engages art, community health and public education, and activates methodologies and artistic interventions for the improvement of teenagers’ well-being; considering they are one of the groups with more signs of psychosocial suffering in our post-pandemic present. The project is carried out between the Centre d'Atenció Primària Poblenou, the Institut Maria Espinalt and the contemporary art center La Escocesa and has involved 3rd grade of ESO students during 22/23 academic year, who are currently in 4th grade.

The project is structured in two phases: through the first one working with the whole course - 120 students -, in order to understand what were their most significant discomforts through an artistic mediation titled ‘Jo-mon. A shared psycho-emotional geography’. These sessions were designed by the project's artist-coordinator Beatriz Regueira and activated together with community emotional wellbeing referent Itziar Toro, GP and community doctor Montse Verdú and high school teacher Marta Caño, with La Escocesa’s artists mediation: Sara Manubens, Alba García, Stefania Lusini, ceramics teacher María Roy and illustrator Tinta Fina, who created the visual narrative of the mediation.

The second phase seeks to implement artistic proposals that respond to emerging discomforts through the creation of spaces and dynamics that offer what in community health are called "health assets”, or what, from the perspective of the performativity of art, the critic and psychoanalyst Suelly Rolnik calls the "knowledge of the living": that which from the embodied experience you know is good for you. These knowledges have requested the creation of "refuge spaces" within the educational space: spaces where students can find tools for relaxation and connection with the inside-outside, within a safe and calm space. intra-accions comes from the term intra-action, a proposal of the feminist philosopher of science Karen Barad, which points to a "doing with-" methodology: a relational co-creation from which any phenomenon or being emerges. In the same way, this project seeks to link art, health and education agents, to propose aesthetic, clinical and pedagogical dynamics, which can help detecting the discomforts of the teenage collective and engage with them through a critical and careful artistic mediation, woven from various histories such as anti-psychiatry, community health, pedagogy of the oppressed or artivism.

The initial duration of the project is two years and is supported by the ICUB.

Photos by Caterina Botelho

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