A la nit hi ha totes aquestes llums que parpellegen. Això ho vaig dibuixar a l’estiu quan veia els fars dels cotxes a la carretera i alguna il·luminació estranya al cel, hi havia cicatrius lluminoses i pedres-esperit. Hi havia una sensació d’aterratge en arribar a la riba amb les últimes forces. Em costava dormir i sortia al porxo a mirar i a quedar-me molt quieta allà en aquella nit que semblava abraçar-te.
The other day, at CCCB, Sara Ahmed talked about raising the voice.This gesture, as a protest or as a way to point out a problem, has specific implications when it is made from within the institution which, in some way it belongs.
There is a photo in the Instagram account of the artist Alba Mayol Curci that I have been going back almost every day during the last weeks of November. In the photo you can hardly distinguish three human figures swimming at night in the sea. The caption says “yes to everything_it was love”.
[…] artists who understand dance as a territory of research, experimentation and questioning that does not necessarily respond to the conventions of representation, so each proposal is a challenge for the author and the audience […] I would like to talk about this type of artists.
This route is drawn from a series of coincidences that lead me to reflect on the accumulation, circulation and availability -without entering into legal considerations- of the images inn the Internet and the configuration of an eventual audio-visual archive, and also in the possibilities of their free re-appropriation.
“It is a mistake to take for granted what was contemplated”. With this suggestive quote by Carlos Oroz begins Agustin Fernandez Mallo’s last novel, Trilogy of war. However, more than a simple quote, the sentence will become a leitmotiv that will show up a few times through the text, making the characters constantly think about the meaning of it.
Will the streets always belong to us? I asked myself when they chanted again and again in the demonstrations caused by the brutal police intervention (more than a thousand injured people) against the Catalan Independence referendum.
We can’t obviate that the comeback to school has been powerful in Barcelona. October began with the first edition in the city of the Gallery Weekend, an event that has been compressed in just one weekend, and activities in other type of spaces completed the programme.
