Take the 5:10 to Dreamland. Collage workshop

Bruce Conner deconstructed and experimented with archival imagery, both from the past and from the mass culture of his time, remixing them into poetic and subversive pieces, with hybrid formats and using perceptual games. In this workshop, we will appropriate images from past and present newspapers, photographs and magazines to mix them with fragments of text, drawings and soundtracks to create accidents, accumulations and new meanings. Based on intuitive exercises, chance or restrictions, we will explore collage’s techniques and methods for getting on the train to where everything is possible, referring to the title of the film Take the 5:10 to Dreamland.

Teresa Rubio is a cultural mediator, art educator, and collage artist. She studied Art History at the universities of Salamanca and Siena. She obtained the diploma of advanced studies at the Universitat de Barcelona and has a Master’s Degree in Art Criticism and Communication from the Universitat de Girona. She has co-directed the educational services of the Centre d’Art Tecla Sala in Hospitalet (2008–20) and the mediation project What the Cell! A macro look at the unity of life at the Centre d’Art La Capella (2020–22). She currently collaborates with the Fundació Joan Miró, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Apropa Cultura, among others.

Specialised in museum education, she uses the imaginative, poetic and critical potential of the artistic processes to generate spaces in which to meet and bring art and life together. She applies artistic methodologies to ways of learning by encouraging experimentation and working with the body and senses. Her interests lie in diversity and affection, and the practice of collage as language and metaphor.