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V. CRITICAL EYE: Visual Archives for Education



Dates: May 2020 (Ongoing)
Partners: Bristol Archives, Bristol Empire and Commonwealth Collection, Bristol Theatre Collection, Nepal Picture Library, Arab Image Foundation and Bristol Photo Festival.
Producer: IC Visual Lab
Coordinators: THE CAGE (Alejandro Acín, Julián Barón, Camila Kevorkian)

︎ Online platform (Coming soon)

CRITICAL EYE: Visual Archives for Education, is an creative pedagogic project that uses photographic archives to encourage critical thinking in young people. The aim is to offer a critical approach towards images that highlight key discussions around photography and society (body representations, colonial gaze, feminist narratives, protest movements...). Produced by IC Visual Lab in collaboration with museums, photographers, curators and school teachers; the goal is to introduce basic discussions around the production and consumption of images, the construction and obliteration of collective memory and how photography is a key language to reimagine the history of the past and present. CRITICAL EYE will partner institutions, local archives and community archives to develop key resources for this programme using materials from their collections.

Through a series of creative experiments in the class and online using digital tools, the project engages young audiences to awaken their artistic sensibility and develop their critical thinking through images.

All the resources and results generated by partner creators (photographers, artists or school teachers) and participants will be available in an online platform which will be open and accessible to anyone for future analysis of young people’s vision around the world.





V. CRITICAL EYE: Visual Archives for Education



Dates: May 2020 (Ongoing)
Partners: Bristol Archives, Bristol Empire and Commonwealth Collection, Bristol Theatre Collection, Nepal Picture Library, Arab Image Foundation and Bristol Photo Festival.
Producer: IC Visual Lab
Coordinators: THE CAGE (Alejandro Acín, Julián Barón, Camila Kevorkian)

︎ Online platform (Coming soon)

CRITICAL EYE: Visual Archives for Education, is a creative pedagogic project that uses photographic archives to encourage critical thinking in young people. The aim is to offer a critical approach towards images that highlight key discussions around photography and society (gender and sexuality, colonial gaze, feminist narratives, public protest movements...). This project is produced in collaboration with other art organizations, artists/photographers, curators and school teachers; the goal is to introduce basic discussions around the production and consumption of images, the construction and obliteration of collective memory and how photography is a key language to reimagine the history of the past and present.

CRITICAL EYE works in partnership photography archives, museum collections, local archives and community archives to develop key resources for this programme using materials from their collections. Through a series of creative experiments using digital photography tools, the project engages young audiences to awaken their artistic sensibility and critical thinking supporting their creativity throughout their life.



Are you a community archive, institution, artist or school teacher? Would you like to take part in this project? Please, fill this questionnaire below.