DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
Ana Coyuela

HOST:
Juliana Rabelo


Synopsis:

Ana begins by speaking about bidirectionality, a concept that attempts to contemplate interaction and question the concept of singular or individual authorship. From there, she proposes the generation of dynamics and projects where authorship flows more horizontally through an exchange of roles and other strategies.

She points out the responsibility held by those who manipulate the archives of participatory or social photography towards those who contribute to it, from the makers of the camera to the people who put themselves in front of it. She attempts to show all this complexity and share the sense of agency within each project. She explains graphically how to turn the hierarchical pyramid into the bidirectional triangle encouraging dialogue.

Using this notions she explains several experiments and creative dynamics that seek to balance action and passivity.

When Ana holds a photo or film workshop she seeks to generate good questions, leave space for criticism and strong emotions or pending psychodramas that can teach us a lot.

She finishes by talking about communicative care during the exercise of facilitation.
Demystifying the role of educator can help to bring us closer and to dialogue with more openness in many cases. Ana hopes that dialogue plays a greater and greater role in classrooms and that educational contexts expand beyond the institutions we accept politically because we have the opportunity to learn at every moment if we have the energy and the basic resources to provide for our needs in life.


Bio:

Ana Cayuela was born in Almería, Spain in 1991. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Granada and Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, where she received a Bauhaus Prize for her narrative and conceptual photographic work exploring the human side of relationships and intimacy, using performance and a documentary focus on society.

In 2015 she received Germany's National Prize for young photographers. In Almería she studied a Master's in Education and Social Communication. She currently teaches photography direction. Her trajectory is ambivalent and multi-disciplinary, but her objectives have always been penetrated by the political commitment to better designing social equity through communication.

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