Art Mediation at the CCCS

The CCCS's activities focus deliberately on artistic exploration as conducted in recent years, giving priority to multimedial vocabulary and to art forms designed to interact with their audience. That approach has led us to formulate a blueprint for promoting our educational activities focusing on art mediation in order to stimulate active participation on the public's part.

The idea is to turn visitors into active players involved in experiences that will help them to explore new and different ways of approaching contemporary art, playing with innovative ways of interacting with, and of tuning in to, works of art. Dialogue, debate and communication bring the works of art alive, because every visitor naturally brings with him or her a wealth of cultural expectations, personal experience and imagination to build on and infuse with new life in this vibrant context.

Thus life fuses with art and art penetrates life, allowing the contemporary work of art, which is often so difficult to classify as an "artistic product", to play a different role, stimulating analysis and prompting reflection on life and society as a whole. The work of art's "users" are encouraged to reflect on contemporary art, its creation, the conceptual thrust that distinguishes it from other forms of expression and the meaning it can have in today's society.

The CCCS offers a full programme of temporary exhibitions and events, all of them naturally complemented by educational activities based on a dialogical approach. Student and adult visitors alike are urged to play an active part with the mediators in a debate tailored to their age group and level of expertise, on the issues raised by the works of art on display, or on particular aspects that they themselves may wish to raise by asking questions or voicing their opinion. The aim is to create situations where the public are no longer simply passive spectators but take on an active and critical role in interpreting the works on show.