Workshop “deVenir Salvaje: imaginarios, cuerpos y territorios en fuga”
Workshop “deVenir Salvaje: imaginarios, cuerpos y territorios en fuga”
With Alba Casas as part of Art Territori Data (ATD)
Date: 3rd of July from 5pm to 8pm
Place: Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats
Registration: idensitat@idensitat.net
The workshop has been conceived as a public engagement initiative for Alba Casas’s *deVenir Salvaje* project. This project explores imaginaries of the wild, as a cultural and political construct, as well as the relationship of the wild to bodies, territories, and ways of life which transcend normative categories.
To this end, the workshop suggests a collective approach to the idea of ‘the wild’ not as a natural essence or as a pre-cultural state, but as a relational position which emerges at the limits of systems of control, classification, and domestication. Using images, words, memories, and assemblage exercises, the session invites participants to consider how hegemonic imaginaries of the wild are constructed and what happens when these images shift, blend, or become destabilised.
Drawing upon a participatory methodology, the group will explore tensions such as nature/culture, human/non-human, urban/rural or norm/transgression, in dialogue with situated experiences of the body and of the land. The workshop has been conceived as a brief space for shared experimentation in which analysis and production unfold simultaneously.
The workshop requires no prior knowledge of contemporary art, critical theory, or visual practices.
More information about the project here
Alba Casas is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher born in As Neves (Spain), a town situated on the border with Portugal. Deeply connected to the region, growing up as a queer person in a rural setting marked by political, social ,and geographical boundaries, has profoundly influenced her career. Living within boundaries and crossing them has nurtured her ability to move between disciplines, concepts, and geographies, giving rise to a hybrid practice that dissolves traditional divisions. Through the intertwining of artistic creation and academic research, her work engages with everyday life as a way of re-imagining new collective spaces and networks of solidarity.
Art Territory Data (ATD). A project by Idensitat that generates a framework for reflection and research about the idea of alternate territories, in reference to places, media, and the positioning of artistic practice.
