DIA-TEKHNÉ: Dialogue through Art

From black-and-white pictures of conflicts to a full palette of colours. From Picasso’s Guernica and the artist’s denunciation of war to the living Gernika of today and artivistic calls for peace. These are the roots of DIA-TEKHNĒ, Dialogue Through Art, a conceptual project that sets out a communication between those who are different which goes beyond the word – logos – through art – tekhnē — and an operation that places this procedure and its tools at the disposal of all people, without discriminating in any way.

ALEX CARRASCOSA

He is an artivist —a visual artist, militant investigator and performer—.

He works in Art and Peace with the Gogoratus Peace Research Centre in Gernika and curated the 1st, 3rd and 4th International Meetings on Art and Peace in Gernika. He is the co-founder of the Artamugarriak artivist group and a co-inspirer (or should it be conspirator?) of the BatzART! initiative.

He was also one of the promoters of the Chairs for Dialogue circles in Donostia- San Sebastian and Bilbao. He also works as an artist on various educational programmes at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. He has been working on the development of DIA-TEKHNĒ: Dialogue Through Art since its inception in 2001, and more actively since 2004 in various countries of Europe and Latin America.