“Lesson from 10 to 2”.* Inazio Escudero

In spite of everything people say about teaching, I really enjoy it. Going into a classroom from Monday to Friday and standing there in front of 23 people teaches you a lot about others and yourself, but most of all, you get something out of it. It’s a place where you’re meant to be a teacher, where you’re supposed to give something, and which you come out of, not only with your salary, but having been RECEIVED. Yes: received – take that as you like.

I think it’s important to highlight how much the path of the artist and the path of the teacher run together and feed into each other. I do the same in a classroom as I do in a performance. The difference is that in the classroom, I present other people’s work, and in performances, I present compositions of my own. Obviously these are two different contexts. Perhaps in the classroom I’m more of a performer and in my work, more of a teacher. In both places, what I try to do is to generate situations that are useful both to me and others.

Everyone has their own preestablished image of what a teacher or a student should be. But coexisting on a daily basis ends up revealing the person behind that. A classroom is, after all, a place where you build relationships, a domestic space.

So, regarding the 25th, the image of an artist, or a certain public or a space – Bulegoa z/b – can also be preestablished. Do you have them? We were considering the possibility of doing a concert or performance. Finally, we decided on something else. The format of it will be a lesson, where I will be the teacher and take for granted that the public will play the role of students. The content of the lesson will be varied. It will begin at 10.00 am and end at 2.00 pm.

*Entrance will not be allowed after the class has begun. No exceptions.

Inazio Escudero
Artist, currently working on his first record. Over the last 12 years he has combined art and teaching. In the 90s his practice worked around video and he played in virtually untraceable groups such as “Marmitako ice-cream”. His work over the past decade has focused on performance. He has done the following solo shows: “Date” (BilbaoArte, Bilbao, 2005), “Le Gilles NI Le Gilles”, (ADN Galería, Barcelona, 2004), “NI” (Galerie du Triangle, Bordeaux, 2002) and “Muñonmental valley” (Espacio Abisal, Bilbao, 1999). His videos and performances have been shown in institutional, private and artist-run spaces.