Sloughing the skin off_ephemera intervention

Abstract

Sloughing off the skin is a project aimed at encouraging creativity through an activity which interweaves sculpture and music. The ways of artistic expression that we present in this intervention, carried out by ten high school students and six arts students from the conservatoire of music pose new challenges applicable inside and outside the classroom. Resources and ways of doing are renewed when the culture of everyday life, image, music and public performance intersect to generate innovation and new experiences within the contemporaneity in which we are immersed.

In order to complete students' artistic training and to improve their creative ability we developed an interdisciplinary proposal which gave rise to performances involving visual arts and music. The result was the product of a methodological process that was built on research in the classroom, on group work, on meetings and on a public presentation of the project.

Sloughing off the skin is an ephemeral intervention designed for street performance in which students become sculptures and take up an emblematic space while piano music is played live.