ACVIC AMB LA SALUT
CONNECTIONS
INTERGENERATIONAL CONVERSATIONS
Part of ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies ACVIC AMB LA SALUT project.
A project connecting ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies and the Residència El Nadal, from the Hospital de la Santa Creu Foundation.
CONNECTIONS explores, through contemporary art, a channel of communication between people from different generations; on the one hand, students from a High school, and, on the other, the elderly people who live in the El Nadal residence, in Vic.
The project develops the concept of communication as a critical reflection, and as a method of bringing people from these two different backgrounds into contact.
How do we communicate with each other? What influence might new technologies have upon this communication?
How do young people communicate? And how do the elderly communicate? What differences are there between postal correspondence, communication via video call or whatsapp conversation? What advantages do each of these have over the others?
In this project, professional carers from the senior citizens’ residence will bring students to El Nadal in order that they might get to know the reality of the residential space. The ACVIC educational team will lend support to students throughout the working process, which will take place at the art centre. But they, the students themselves, are the ones who will shape the project, deciding what content to develop, and what is the best way to make that contact.
CURRENT EDITION. ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-25
A group of 4th year Secondary School students from the Institut Jaume Callís in Vic, completed the programme in their Visual Arts classes during the months of October and November. Thus, the students were able to fulfil an extensive project and as a result, there was a long and intense relationship among participants.
In this edition, sessions alternated between the school and the retirement home. The sessions at the retirement home represented an intergenerational meeting place, where participants work in groups of three. Sessions at the school lend participants an opportunity to reflect upon why and how we communicate with each other, while also allowing them toshape each working group’s artistic intervention.
OLDER EDITIONS