Torna un any més el Gallery Weekend a Barcelona, aquesta és la seva cinquena edició, i ja tornàvem a necessitar una mica d’adrenalina després de la rentrée de setembre amb Art Nou. Plena de propostes i activitats per veure, vaig a agafar un cafè d’aquests bons per mirar el mapa de totes les galeries i pensar en una ruta possible. No sabria per on començar. Potser pel dormitori de la Casa Vicens.
I write this possible route a few days before the general election. Whichever is the result, we will continue to go out on the street and disobey, because by disobeying we find a way to rethink ourselves and with consideration: action and change.
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.
L’altre dia, al CCCB, Sara Ahmed parlaba sobre alçar la veu. Aquest gest, com a protesta o com a forma d’assenyalar un problema, te unes implicacions específiques quan es fa des de dins d’una institució on d’alguna manera s’hi pertany.
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.
