an invitation from M0nster.Lab

Norma Pérez and Lu Chieregati invite you to participate in a series of three working sessions on consent. During these meetings, we will approach consent not as a simple verbal agreement, but as a living process of listening and sharing with our own bodies and with others. We understand consent as an everyday practice that we can rehearse and strengthen, developing the ability to recognize our limits, possibilities, and desires.

Incorporating consent means increasing awareness of our nervous system’s responses to touch, overload, and pleasure. This knowledge can be relevant in our daily lives, on the dance floor, or in any physical practice.

Each session will take into account the different situations and experiences that each body carries, creating an intersectional space to experience touch and the gestures of consent and non-consent.

Through contact exercises in pairs and small dance and somatic practices, we will explore consent as a form of listening from the skin, recognizing both pleasure and (dis)comfort. Power systems often teach us to ignore our own limits; here we seek the opposite: to recover the ability to inhabit ourselves from a greater awareness and care.

Things to keep in mind

• Come in comfortable clothes.
• If possible, bring a mat (there are some at La Escocesa, but it’s always better to bring your own).
• This is an event for members, but you can come with a friend. Let us know who you will be bringing with you when you send the email to sign up.

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M0nster.Lab explore the narratives of the body and the image that lie behind the Western and techno-heroic fictions of the contemporary neoliberal colonial and heterosexual regime. They propose narratives to imagine and create fictions, in which monstrues take over the political to re-evaluate the concept of normativity.

Consentimiento incorporado is part of REBOST, a program line managed autonomously and collectively by the members of La Escocesa, who decide on the activities they want to organize in relation to the interests and needs of the group.

If you have any needs or questions regarding the accessibility of this activity, please, visit the page “access La Escocesa” by clicking here