UF Center for Latin American Studies
Days: Tuesdays
Times: 1:55pm- 4:55pm
Location: Grinter 376
Course description
This course is about exploring the intersections between art and pedagogy through artistic practices and will be conducted in the form of a laboratory, which will gradually evolve and take shape around the following questions: 1) How does art become pedagogical material? 2) What type of new classroom structures and dynamics can be formulated? 3) How can we create open and unstable learning environments? 4) What kind of cultural strategies and tactics are possible through art?
This course will focus on experimental pedagogies and their influences, actively pursuing resistance and emancipation, fostering dialogue in a flexible and decentralized approach and, that forges strong connections with cultural and social movements.
About Nicolás Paris (b. 1977, Bogotá)
Paris is an interdisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work folds together architecture, object, installations, happenings and the act of drawing. With a minimalist’s eye to the small and itinerant, Paris conjures dizzying depths in a single fragile line, evoking palpable communions with the unexpected and the unknown. “We are often told that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line,” he has remarked; “I would like to say that the most effective distance between two human beings is an imaginary line”—an apt description for the generous invitation his work extends to viewers for mutual discovery and rich collective exchange.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Paris, a former schoolteacher in a remote region of Colombia, has dedicated much of his life to championing student-directed learning and cultivating practices of self-education. His work has been widely shown in exhibitions throughout the Americas and Europe, including the 54th Biennale di Venezia (2011), the New Museum Triennial (New York, 2012), and the 30th Bienal de São Paulo (2012).
Learn more about Nicolás Paris and his work here and here.
Nicolás Paris (Visual Artist, Colombia)
Fall 2025 Kislak Family Foundation Artist in Residence
Center for Latin American Studies
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