MoKS AIRs of November Anne- Liis Kogan ja Jorge Uriel Najera agreed to visit Vastse- Kuuste primary-school. It was our 1st visit to that school and very warm one. Our host, art teacher Kersti was very nice and flexible and seemed to be as exited about forthcoming art class as much as students. I think Anne-Liis and Jorge managed to create quite a mess at kids and teacher heads and probably also enouth curiosity, so i hope that thanks to their visit there are more people now in the world who will not yawn when they hear word "(contemporary) art" or make other faces.
First lesson was by Anne- Liis, she gave quick climpse into her doings and discussed with kids some issues related to her work. Later she gave out old analogue cameras and gave them excercise kids should do for the next meeting. Week later we picked up films and cameras, after developing Anne-Liis viewed and discussed photoes with kids. Unfortunately some of them did not use the possibility and did not take any photoes. However, they seemed to be very interested about continuing working with analog cameras, so i proposed to continue more from technical side next year.
In that morning i went to school with Jorge there was 1st snow on the ground. Road was slippery and we were a bit late. It took for a while to get equipment working as wished. As Jorge is using electronics in his work, building and programming his installations all by himself he also decided to give some interest urging workshop for kids. Batteries, LEDs, shortcircuits, pink flames and smoke. Even girls were excited and no- one even took a break... Before leaving Jorge asked kids to use their new knowledge wisely and in right place, i added that it is also important to keep in mind if they want to see more artists at their school in future.