CRUCERO offers solutions, support and critical insight to address the lack of feedback that creative individuals may experience in their journey.

CRUCERO is part of Remota, a distance residency program created in 2020 between the art and literature residencies Can Serrat (Cat) and Guion bajo (Col). The project stems from the simple observation that emerging artists and writers (but not only) in residence often lack information and support to navigate the cultural world. Crucero offers practical tutoring to enhance specific skills such as fundraising, writing statements and applications, as well as coaching to help them articulate their ideas and provide emotional support, among other forms of assistance.

 

Cruceros proposes 3 lignes of advice service:

  • FEEDBACK
    Individual session to review the project/application statement, any document related to sharing the overall work or a specific project of the artist/writer. (1 hour session).
  • COTXES
    Individualized session with a coach to accompany a specific moment in their artistic/litterature career. The sessions will be there to offer emotional support, facilitate professional development, and enable individuals to achieve their aspirations. Sessions of 1 hour (first session, 1 hour and 30 minutes).
  • CRITICAL READING
    One to one sessions of Critical reading of manuscripts or ongoing projects (narrative project and essay).

 

COST 2024:

FEEDBACK (1h) – 80€ (Pack of 2 sessions 160€)

COTXE (1h) – First session 100€ (1h30) – after, 80€

CRITICAL READING – 3€/page (under 200 pages)

 

TUTORS:

SOPHIE BLAIS
Tutoring: Cotxe, Feedback, Critical reading (Spanish, Catalan and French only)
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Catalan

Sophie, is a cultural manager and director at Can Serrat, she studied visual arts at the University of Strasbourg and photography at the ICART-Photo school in Paris. She completed Master’s degrees in cinematographic and photographic studies, and management + cultural mediation at the Louis Lumière University of Lyon. From 2010 to 2015, she worked concurrently as a photographer for a regional newspaper and as a mediator in the field of contemporary art, literature, and publishing. She worked for he Nicephore Niepce Museum , LUX Art Center, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, and Le Creux de l’Enfer.

Since 2015, she has been working at Can Serrat, focusing on obtaining public funding for the residency and resident artists/writers. Sophie also established collaborations with various cultural and educational programs nationally and internationally, aiming to enhance the creative mentoring process for resident artists and writers. Notable collaborations include Artists at Risk, Artist Protection Fund, the Ministry of Culture of Tapei, and EESI Poitiers-Angoulême.

Since 2020, with the creation of the REMOTA program in collaboration with guion_bajo, Sophie has shown interest in expanding community care and process mentoring for artists and writers. Additionally, as part of her research and personal interest in developing the CRUCERO program, she underwent a three-month professional coaching process in 2022 with a recent graduate from the HEC certification program.

Sophie dedicates a significant portion of her work time to engaging in conversations with artists and writers about their projects, processes, and careers in general. She is of an inquisitive nature and spends time observing and reflecting on her surroundings, approaching reality with a philosophical and empathetic perspective.

  

SARAH GOODCHILD ROBB
Tutoring: Feedback, Critical reading (English only)
Languages: Spanish, English

Sarah Goodchild Robb is the Coordinator of Programming at Can Serrat. She received her BA in Art History and French from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and completed an MFA in Studio Practice from The City College of New York, CUNY.

There, she was nominated for a Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, and was a recipient of the Therese Ralston McCabe Connor Award Study Abroad Fellowship, which allowed her to pursue a residency at Picture Berlin in Germany. While completing her master’s degree, she undertook a research internship at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Prior to her studies, she worked as an art administrator and educator at a non-profit organization in Portland, OR. In 2018 she co-founded MODS with visual artist Maria Kim (2018-2023), an international virtual support initiative for working artists.

Special projects and interests at the residency include managing Narrativa Collectiva, a co-creation-themed residency, Other Tongue, an experimental translation workshop, and editing and writing for the biennial catalogue. In 2021, she completed a course in Art Criticism and Writing with Node Curatorial Studies Online to help hone her own writing and creative skills. For the past several years, she has read thousands of applications by serving on all of the juries at Can Serrat for both the contemporary art and writing submission. Writing about one’s work is an important skill likened to an act of translation. Sarah enjoys helping people to edit their statements, project descriptions, grants, and applications into clear and accessible prose in a relaxed and collaborative way that starts with a conversation about where you are in your practice.

   

ASLI SEVEN
Tutoring: Cotxe, Feedback, Critical reading
Languages: French, English, Turkish

Asli Seven is a curator, researcher, and independent writer based between Istanbul and Paris. Her research and curatorial projects focus on infrastructure, landscape, pedagogy, and the performativity of documents, with an emphasis on fieldwork, fictocriticism, and co-creation.

As part of her curatorial practice, she has mentored artists in various coaching/tutoring formats in different institutional contexts ranging from residencies (Cité des Arts, 2020-21 and Can Serrat, 2022); collective and/or alternative pedagogical projects (M-est, Istanbul; Arter Research Program, Istanbul; mentoring program of the IKSV Foundation, etc.) in process and/or production-oriented contexts. These have taken the form of collective or individual coaching/tutoring sessions ranging from a single session to multiple sessions over periods of 6 to 9 months. Since 2022, she has been interested in life coaching, professional coaching, and literary coaching to find an appropriate methodology for recognizing this supportive practice within the field of curating and contemporary art. As part of this interest, in the academic year 2022-23, she underwent a three-month professional training process with a former student of the HEC certificate program (Paris).

Since 2021, she has been a visiting professor at ESBA MOCO Art School (Montpellier, France) and the Sothebys Institute (London, UK), where she regularly engages in critical discussions with master’s students in art and curating in French and English. She holds a Ph.D. in Art Research from ENSA Bourges and EESI Poitiers-Angouleme and a Master’s in Political Science Research from the University Paris 1 – Sorbonne. She is a member of AICA, C-E-A (French Association of Curators), and an alumna of Independent Curators International (ICI).

Asli Seven’s website.

 

TAMY KOGAN
Tutoring: Cotxe
Languages: Spanish, English

Tamy (they/them) is a psychologist, writer, and artist from Argentina who engages in a transdisciplinary practice focused on identity at the intersection of artivism, human rights, diversity, and mental health. They began working in clinical psychology in 2012, becoming a gender reference in various areas, such as the Red de Psicólogxs Feministas de Argentina, supporting LGBTQ+ people, non-monogamous communities, artists, writers, expatriates, and other dissident identities. Tamy integrates art and psychology by viewing the therapeutic process as a creative one, facilitating co-created open spaces where any artistic or expressive work can be brought in for exploration. They work from a perspective of de-pathologization and decentralization of power, believing that each person is an expert in their own life, and accompany these paths through therapeutic conversations, narrative practices, body techniques, and various psychological approaches based on the individual’s uniqueness and preferences.

You can learn more about Tamy’s work here.


DORIAN BRAUN
Tutoring: Cotxe, Feedback
Languages: English

His core training is in developmental coaching, and he holds a Senior Practitioner Accreditation withthe European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). From Oxford Brooks University he received a Distinction at master’s level in Coaching

and Mentoring and has presented his research at the International Coaching and Mentoring Conference. Additionally, his papers have been published in the leading practitioner journal, Coaching at Work and the academic journal, the International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring. As an artist Dorian graduated with 1st Class BA Honours in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, and from there he went on to receive multiple awards including Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy and John Kinross Scholarship (also RSA). Following the scholarship, he exhibited across Europe and Scotland including RSA New Contemporaries and Platform in Edinburgh, and the Twente Biannual in Holland. Most recently completed a residency with the Bothy Project on the Isle of Eigg in 2022. Currently he works as a coach and is an active founding director of Kinder Croft CIC, a forest school on the Northwest coast of Scotland. He was also a founding director of The Project Café CIC, a community arts organization in the center of Glasgow.

 

PAOLA CABALLERO DAZA
Tutoring: Feedback, Critical reading
Languages: Spanish

She is a cultural manager, writer, founder, and director of the foundation guion bajo, as well as a reader and coordinator of the Cruceros program (in Spanish). She studied literature (Uniandes, Col.), completed a master’s degree in Asian and African Studies (Colmex), and obtained a diploma in Expanded Writings: language, science, and art (Unam, Mex). She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing (UBF, Barcelona). She has served as a pre-reader, reader, and jury member for various national and international grants, awards, and incentives. Her publications include “Voy y vengo” (El Peregrino Ediciones, 2015). Her novel “Camas gemelas” (Cajón de sastre, 2020) was a finalist for the National Novel Prize (MinCultura, Col, 2022), with translations underway into Arabic (Madarat for Research and Publishing) and Greek (World Books).

 

DUNCAN GIBBS
Tutoring: Feedback
Languages: English

After graduating from the Slade School of Art in 2016, Duncan Gibbs worked with the Space ‘Limbo Limbo’ in London, developing an exhibition space for emerging artists. Following a residency at Can Serrat in Catalonia in 2017, Duncan moved to Barcelona, where he has been living and working ever since.

With Can Serrat, he developed the project SLOW (2019), an outdoor studio and permaculture garden. More recently, he worked on ‘Terra Teca Traca,’ a collaboration between an artist, scientist, and farmer.

Supported by the University of Girona.

In 2019, Duncan started to collaborate with La Infinita (Hospitalet de llobregat), to develop the project ‘Tender”, a four-hour performance marked his first collaboration with Catalan actor Guillem Barbosa. Leading up to the event, they released a series of seed bombs around

the city, documented in the film ‘Tender (seed bombs),’ shown as part of the exhibition ‘Our Garden Needs Its Flowers’ in 2021 at Tecla Sala.

Recent exhibitions include V22’s ‘Young London,’ ‘Una Exposició Com un Conjur’ curated by Caterina Almirall, and ‘Our Garden Needs Its Flowers’ at Tecla Sala. In 2021, Duncan had a solo show at Et hall’s 17m2 space as part of Barcelona’s ‘Art Nou’ festival. In 2023, he participated in the exhibition ‘Ángel Peligrosamente Búho’ at La Capella, Barcelona, curated by Nuria Gomez Gabriel.

 

NATALIA ROMERO
Tutoring: Feedback, Critical Reading
Languages: Spanish

She has published the poetry books Maybe Death Lies (Pánico el pánico), The Luminous Beginning, and Love Carries the Weight of the Night (Caleta Olivia), as well as children’s books ABC, My First Kitchen (Periplo), Where Is What Is Not(Syncretic Press), and the essay The Other Side of Things: Poetry as Restoration of a Voice in the Work of Diana Bellessi(Blatt&Ríos).

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences (UBA) and a Master’s degree in Creative Writing (UNTREF). She received the Creation and Project Completion Grant from the FNA to work on her first novel, The Precious Noise of a Heart, and the Can Serrat grant to participate in the artists’ residency in El Bruc (Barcelona) with the same project.

She participates as a teacher in the artist training program PAC (Gachi Prieto Gallery) and has been coordinating writing workshops since 2014.

 

 

Contact: canserratart@gmail.com or +34 689 32 51 37 (WhatsApp).