TID with Redes MAC

The painting 'La cometa' by Alfonso Quijano inspired us to create a project where we could all share our favorite childhood game. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/la-cometa/RwHtMhCBe7xgvA?hl=es

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Arlene Tucker collaborated with El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá (MAC) and their Redes MAC volunteer group between August and December 2020 to create an intergenerational participatory translative project.  As COVID-19 forced us all on a global level to find new ways of communicating and finding connections from our own little corner, Arlene and the Redes MAC team created a project that used translation techniques to inspire creativity and the sharing of personal stories through the museum's art collection.  We were bringing together participants living in elderly homes in Suba Madre. The coordinator of this project was Tatiana Quevado.  

Our aim was to try to find a way to activate, engage, listen, and learn with and from the elderly participants living in communal living spaces in Suba Madre.  The social worker played an invaluable part of creating this connection between the volunteers, the participants, and the museum.

Tatiana Quevado said, "we created a virtual family." We brought together people living in different regions of Bogota and Finland.

As most of us are in quarantine around the world, the concept of 'window' immediately became a very prominent theme. We ran with the idea and used artworks from the museum's online exhibition.  Each group chose an artwork from the museum and developed a translative process for us to open dialogue.  We listened to the elderly participants' feedback and incorporated their suggestions into the next project.  All in all, we had 5 artworks in which we developed process based approaches for everybody to open up thoughts, create, and interpret in multimodal way. 

​Thank you everybody for sharing your thoughts, history, presence, dreams and time!