Held on 02 Dec 2020
Intersectional feminisms contend that violence, extractivism and exploitation are not read separately, for they are conflicts tied up in complex modes. New struggles, with the clear prominence of women, are emerging and shaping other ways of addressing these conflicts, new imaginaries of resistance and different strategies of self-protection.
These new forms of syndicalism pick up tools from the twentieth century’s major working-class struggles (strikes, picket lines, resistance funds, councils, assemblies), but do so in a way that moves beyond purely labour-based ground, given that exploitation is not limited to wage ratio and labour violence combines with other types of violence — financial, sexual, extractive, legal.
These are struggles imbued with feminism, not only because gender-dissident women and people are at the forefront, but because their languages and strategies disrupt patriarchal schisms between the public and private, productive and reproductive, personal and political, centring essential questions around good living and good dying in an increasingly damaged planet.
This encounter, therefore, sets out to convene, converse with and create fruitful exchanges between some of the leading figures in these struggles, setting out from the conviction that, from their view of the world, their networks of self-protection and their ways of “shouldering” rebellion, they are developing the syndicalist feminism to come.
Programme
Wednesday, 2 December 2020 / Online Platform
7pm. Opening lecture. Feminist Revolt and Organisational Connections Entwined in Life.
Participants: Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar (Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico) and Haizea Miguela Álvarez (Feministas en acción).
Thursday, 3 December 2020 / Nouvel Building, Protocol Room and online Platform
5:30pm – 7pm. Round-table discussion. Dismantling the House of the Master. Dispossession, Exploitation and Extractivism Through a Feminist Lens.
Participants: Costanza Cisneros (Territorio Doméstico), Myrian Espinoza and Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca de Vallekas), Pastora Filigrana (Abogadas Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza) and Zohra Koubia (Asociación Marroquí de Derechos Humanos).
Presented by: Beatriz García and Marta Malo (La Laboratoria).
A new lexis is emerging in the mutual pollination between more street-level feminisms and social struggles, with some of the key concepts with which to understand the extraction of value in the world system including: financialisation, debt, old and new labour regulations, care, land, borders and coloniality. All of the above take on fresh nuances through the feminist lens, and this round-table looks to unravel some of the implications for a radical political imagination.
7pm. Break.
7:30pm – 9pm. Round-table discussion. When Work Doesn’t Seem Like Work. Feminist Conflicts in Old and New Deregulation.
Participants: María José Barrera (Colectivo de Prostitutas de Sevilla), Graciela Gallego (Sindicato de Trabajadoras del Hogar y de los Cuidados) and Nuria Soto (Riders x Derechos).
Presented by: Amalia Caballero and Rafaela Pimentel (Territorio Doméstico).
Friday, 4 December 2020 / Nouvel Building, Protocol Room and online Platform
5:30pm – 7pm. Round-table discussion. We Are Owed a Life. Feminist Conflicts in Social Syndicalism.
Participants: Rebeca Tolosa (Sindicato de inquilinas e inquilinos de Madrid) and Asun Paños Arroyo (feminist self-defense facilitator) representatives of the Sindicato del barrio de Vallekas.
Presented by: Myrian Espinoza and Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhuenen (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca Vallekas).
7pm. Break.
7:30pm – and 9pm. Round-table discussion. Bread and Roses. Feminist Conflicts in the Syndicalist Struggle.
Participants: María Fuentes (MATS Cleaning at Gregorio Marañón Hospital), Rosa María García (a worker in care homes), Verónica Domínguez, Ana Pinto y Fatiha Suleman (Asociación Jornaleras de Huelva en lucha), María del Mar Jiménez (a chambermaid) and Nadia Naïr (Moroccan Feminist Action Union).
Presented by: Pastora Filigrana (Abogadas Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza).
Saturday, 5 December 2020 / Nouvel Building, Protocol Room and online Platform
11am – 1:30pm. Plenary session. The Situation for Women Cannot Be Changed Without Changing the World. The Feminist Movement and Feminist Syndicalism.
Participants: all participants in the encounter, the 8M Commission and union representatives, among others.
1:30pm – 2pm. Catwalk by Territorio Doméstico.
A performance action built from the lived experiences of domestic work and care and forms of feminised precariousness, whereby estrangement and parody work to trigger the critical gaze. They are also strategies to “shoulder” revolts and add force to daily struggles during times of extreme instability.
النقابية النسوية القادمة
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الأربعاء 2 ، الخميس 3 ، الجمعة 4 والسبت 5 ديسمبر / استشر البرنامج
الدخول: مجاني عند سحب بطاقة الدخول مسبقاً وذلك اعتبارًا من يوم الاثنين 30/11. تفتح الأبواب على الساعة 00: 17.
وسيتمّ بثّ الفعالية:
عبر تطبيق زوم على رقم الدخول: 996 0137 0708 وكلمة السرّ: 656207
اللغّة :
الإسبانية والعربية
ي نظم:
متحف الملكة صوفيا المركزي الوطني للفنون، “لابوراتوريا“ ( La Laboratoria ). مساحة الأبحاث النسوية.
المتعاونون:
مبادرة المجتمع المفتوح لأوروبا، ومؤسسة المبادرات الفنية ومؤسسة روزا لوكسمبورغ.
خطوط القوة:
التخيل والعمل الراديكالي
تدعي الحركات النسّوية بجوانبها المتعددّة أن العنف والخروج عن القانون والاستغلال لا يمكن قراءتهم بشكل منفصل، بل بالأحرى لا بد من ربطهم بطرق معقدة وبأنواع جديدة من النضالات.. تظهر في هذه العقد شخصيات أنثوية تمزج كل شيء وتبتكر طرقًا جديدة لطرح الصراع، كما تطرح تصورات للمقاومة فريدة من نوعها واستراتيجيات جديدة للحماية الذاتية.
ولذلك تستعمل نفس أدوات النضالات العمالية العظيمة في القرن العشرين (إضراب، اعتصام، صندوق مقاومة، مجلس، تجمع) ولكن بلمسة مختلفة حيث أنها تفعل ذلك ضمن مجال العمل الصارم، لأن الاستغلال لا يقتصر على علاقة الأجر وحسب.. الحقيقة أن على العنف العمالي يجب إضافة العنف المالي والجنسي والقانوني والقضائي أيضا.
هنّ نساء مشبعات بالنسوية، ليس فقط لأنهنّ نساء والمعارضات بين الجنسين في المقدمة، ولكن أيضًا لأنهنّ في لغاتهن واستراتيجياتهن ي فجرن الانقسامات الأبوية بين العام والخاص، وبين الإنتاجية والإنجابية، وبين الشخصي والسياسي، لوضع الأسئلة الأساسية حول الحياة الحسنة والموت الحسن في كوكب لا يتوقف عن النزيف.
يهدف هذا الاجتماع إلى اللقّاء، والدخول في حوار، وتوليد تبادلات مثمرة بين أنصار هذه النضالات، انطلاقاً من الاقتناع بأنه بناءً على رؤيتهن للعالم ومخططاتهن الخاصة بالحماية الذاتية وطرقهن في احتضان التمرد، فإنهنّ يتأهبنّ لإنشاء النسوية النقابية القادمة .
تشارك كل من:
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar
راكيل غوتيريث أغيلا
رياضية و فيلسوفة وباحثة في علم الإجتماع مكسيكية. أستاذة- باحثة في الدراسات العليا في علم الإجتماع بمعهد العلوم الإجتماعية والإنسانية بجامعة أوطونما بويبلا. باحثة في العلاقة بين الحركات النسوية الشعبية المتجددة وممارسات إنتاج ما هو مشترك في رييو دي بلاطا، بوليفيا و أمريكا الوسطى.
Haizea Miguela Álvarez
أيثيا ميغلا البارس
عضوة في ”نسويات في الحراك“ Feministas en Acción
Costanza Cisneros, Rafaela Pimentel y Amalia Caballero
كونستانثا ثيسنيروس- رافايلا بمينتال - اميليا كاباييرو
عضوتين في " أرض المَنزَل" Territorio Doméstico : مساحة للقاء والعناية والنضال لنساء -معظمهن عاملات البيوت- ناضلات من أجل كرامة العمل المنزلي وأعمال الرعاية
Myrian Espinoza y Lotta Tenhunen
ميريان إسبينوزا - لوطا تنهونن
عضوتين في PAH-Vallekas " منصة المتأثرين بالرهن العقاري بحي فايكاس في مدريد "
Pastora Filigrana
باستورا فيلغرانا
تعمل كمحامية في coopAbogadas@ وهي ناشطة نشيطة في مجال حقوق الإنسان. أندلسية من sat_nacional @ و من حي تريانا بالضبط. ميستيثو- غجرية طوال الوقت.
Zohra Koubia
زهرة قوبيع
عضوة في الجمعية المغربية لحقوق الإنسان AMDH، مؤسسة ورئيسة منتدى نساء الريف AFFA .
Nadia Naïr
نادية الناير
أستاذة بجامعة عبد المالك السعدي طنجة - تطوان وعضوة اتحاد العمل النسوي - المغرب
Graciela Gallego
غراسيلا غاييغو
عضوة ومؤسسة النقابة للعاملات المنزلية وخدمات الرعاية
Nuria Soto
نورية صوتو
المتحدثة باسم نقابة ”عمال التوصيل للمنازل من أجل الحقوق”
María José Barrera
ماريا خوسي باريرا
عاملة سابقة في مجال الخدمات الجنسية وناشطة في مجال حقوق العاملات في نفس المجال في التجمع الإشبيلي للعاملات في مجال الخدمات الجنسية
Ana Pinto, Verónica Domínguez y Fatiha Suleman
آنا بينتو - فيرونيكا دومينغيز- فتيحة سليمان
أعضاء في الجمعية الحراكية لعاملات المياومة في ويلفا إسبانيا
María del Mar Jiménez
ماريا ديل مار خيمينز
ناشطة في مجال حقوق نادلات الشقق )مدريد(
María Fuentes
ماريا فوينتس
عاملة نظافة في مستشفى غريغوريو مارانيون بمدريد وعضوة في نقابة MATS
Rosa María García
روسا ماريا غرثيا
عاملة ونقابية في دور رعاية المسنين
Almudena Fernández
المدينة فيرنانديز
طبيبة مقيمة داخلية في طب الأسرة والمجتمع وعضوة في تجمع الأطباء المقيمين الداخليين الحراكيين بفايكاس. مدريد
Rebeca Tolosa
ريبيكا تولوزا
المتحدثة باسم نقابة المستأجرين والمستأجرات
مجموعات أخرى قيد تأكيد حضورها البرنامج
جدول البرنامج:
الجلسة الافتتاحية
الأربعاء 2 ديسمبر 2020 عل ى الساعة 19:00 أون لاين
محاضرة افتتاحية.
راكيل غوتيريث أغيلار، المحاضرة الإفتتاحية .تشابكت الثورة النسوية والنسيج التنظيمي مع الحياة.
تقدم: أيثيا ميغلا البارس. Feministas en Acción” نسويات في الحراك“
الخميس 3 ديسمبر 2020 - على الساعة 17:30 مبنى Nouvel، صالة البروتوكول
19:00-17:30
حلقة نقاش تفكيك منزل السيد: نزع الملكية والاستغلال والخروج عن القانون من منظور نسوي
يظهر معجم جديد في إطار التلقيح المتبادل بين الحركات النسوية في الشوارع والنضالات الاجتماعية. تكتسب المفاهيم الأساسية لفهم استخراج القيمة في نظام العالم )الأمْوَلَة، الديون، أنظمة العمل القديمة والجديدة ، أعمال الرعاية، الأرض، الحدود، والاستعمار( فروقًا دقيقة جديدة إذا نظرنا إليها من منظور نسوي. تهدف هذه الحلقة إلى كشف بعض تداعيات تلك المفاهيم في التخيل السياسي الجذري
تشترك: لوتا ميري بيتا وميريان إسبينوزا وباستورا فيليغرانا وكوستانزا سيسنيروس وزهرة قوبيع .
تقدم: بياتريس غارسيا ومارتا مالو) لابوراتوريا( .
19:00 استراحة
21:00-19:30
حلقة نقاش
عندما لا يبدو العمل عملا ً
صراعات نسوية في التحرر القديم والجديد
تشترك: غراسيلا غاييغو(SANTRAHOCU) و نورية صوتو ( (Riders por Derechos و ماريا خوسي باريرا )التجمع الإشبيلي للعاملات في مجال الخدمات الجنسية ( .
تقدم: رافاييلا بيمنتال وآماليا كاباييرو "أرض المَنزَل ".
الجمعة 4 ديسمبر 2020 - على الساعة 17:30 مبنى Nouvel، صالة البروتوكول
17:30– 19:00
حلقة نقاش
إنهم مدينون لنا بالحياة. الصراعات النسوية في النقابات الاشتراكية
تشترك: ريبيكا تولوسا )نقابة المستأجرين و المستأجرات (، ألمدينة فرنانديز ) تجمع الأطباء المقيمين الداخليين الحراكيين بفايكاس واتحاد حي فايكاس(
تقدم: ميريان إسبينوزا )منصة المتأثرين بالرهن العقاري بحي فايكاس في مدريد(
19:00 استراحة
19:30 – 21:00
حلقة نقاش
الخبز والورد .الصراعات النسوية في النضال النقابي
تشترك: نادية الناير)جامعة عبد المالك السعدي طنجة -تطوان( وآنا بينتو وفيرونيكا دومينغيز وفتيحة سليمان )الجمعية
الحراكية لعاملات المياومة في ويلفا إسبانيا(، ماريا ديل مار خيمينيز )ناشطة في مجال حقوق نادلات الشقق -مدريد( ، ماريا فوينتيس )نقابةMATS لعاملات تنظيف مستشفى جريجوريو مارانيون (، روزا ماريا غارسيا) دور رعاية المسنين ( تقدم: باستورا فيليغرانا
السبت 5 ديسمبر 2020 - على الساعة 10:00مبنى Nouvel، صا لة البروتوكول
10.00-12.00 عرض أزياء تحت مسئولية Territorio Doméstico” أرض المَنزَل “.
عمل أدائي مبني على تجارب العمل المنزلي والرعاية وأشكال العمل النسائي الغير المستقر. يعتبر الإستغراب والمحاكاة الساخرة بمثابة حافز للنظرة النقدية.. كما يشكل أيضًا استراتيجيات لاحتضان وتقوية النضالات اليومية في لحظات البؤس الشديد.
12.00-12.30 استراحة
12.30-14.00 نقاش عام” لا يمكنك تغيير وضع المرأة دون تغيير العالم “
الحركة النسوية والنقابية النسوية .
تشترك: جميع المحاضرات والمشاركات في الاجتماع، لجنة M8، ممثلات النقابات، إلخ.
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Admission:
In-person: Free, until full capacity is reached, with prior ticket collection on the Museo Reina Sofía website from 10am on 30 November. A maximum of 1 per person. Doors open thirty minutes before the activity.
Online Platform: free access.
Capacity:
70 people in-person; 500 online
Language:
Spanish and Arabic with simultaneous interpretation
Participants
Haizea Miguela Álvarez with a training in sociology, works linked to the world of education. A feminist activist, she participated in the Madrid 8M Commission and is a member of Feministas en Acción.
María José Barrera is a former prostitute and currently an activist for sex workers’ rights in the Colectivo de Prostitutas de Sevilla (Seville Prostitutes’ Collective).
Amalia Caballero, Costanza Cisneros and Rafaela Pimentel are members of Territorio Doméstico (Domestic Territory), a collective and space of encounters, care and organisation for women, the majority domestic workers who fight for dignity in domestic work and to defend the visibility and social re-organisation of care.
Myrian Espinoza and Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen are members of the women’s group Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca de Vallekas (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages, Vallekas), which fights for the right to housing, an end to evictions, dation in payment (writing off debt) and social rented housing.
Pastora Filigrana holds a Law Degree from the University of Seville. She works in Abogadas Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza (the Andalusian Female Lawyers’ Cooperative) and is a human rights activist. An Andalusian native from the Seville neighbourhood of Triana and with mixed-race gypsy heritage, she collaborates with the Andalusian Union of Workers (SAT). She is also the author of El pueblo gitano contra el sistema-mundo (Akal, 2020).
María Fuentes is a cleaner at Gregorio Marañón Hospital and a union member of Movimiento Asambleario de Trabajadores-as de Sanidad (Assembly Movement of Workers in Healthcare, MATS).
Graciela Gallego is a member and founder of Trabajadoras del Hogar and Cuidados (Female Home and Care Workers, SINTRAHOCU), the first trade union of its kind on a state level.
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is a Mexican mathematician, philosopher and sociologist who lectures on the Sociology post-graduate course at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico) and is the author of different publications on the indigenous movement in Latin America. Her work explores the relationship between renewed popular feminisms and production practices of the commons.
Beatriz García and Marta Malo are members of La Laboratoria. Espacios de Investigación Feminista (The Lab. Feminist Research Spaces), a transnational device that supports feminist activist research.
Rosa María García works in care homes and is a unionist.
María del Mar Jiménez is a chambermaid and a unionist.
Zohra Koubia part of the Asociación Marroquí de Derechos Humanos (Moroccan Human Rights Association, AMDH) and founder and chairwoman of Association Forum des Femmes Au Rif (AFFA RIF).
Nadia Naïr is a lecturer at the Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, an activist, and a member of the Moroccan Feminist Action Union. She specialises in issues related to gender and human rights and has written a broad range of articles defending women in Morocco and on Muslim emigration in Europe.
Asun Paños Arroyo is a feminist self-defense facilitator for women and girls, a social educator and an intercultural mediator.
Nuria Soto is a spokesperson for the Riders x Derechos (Riders for Rights) union, a collective that fights for human rights and decent living conditions for home delivery workers.
Rebeca Tolosa is a member of the Sindicato de inquilinas e inquilinos de Madrid that fights for a fair and affordable rent.
Verónica Domínguez, Ana Pinto and Fatiha Suleman are members of the Asociación Jornaleras de Huelva en lucha (Association Fighting for Female Day Workers in Huelva), a collective against the abuses suffered by female day workers in fields and warehouses.
![Miguel Brieva, ilustración de la novela infantil Manuela y los Cakirukos (Reservoir Books, 2022) [izquierda] y Cibeles no conduzcas, 2023 [derecha]. Cortesía del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/ecologias_del_deseo_utopico.jpg.webp)
![Ángel Alonso, Charbon [Carbón], 1964. Museo Reina Sofía](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/perspectivas_ecoambientales.jpg.webp)
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CLINIC 2628. A Community of Writing and Research in the Arts
February – October 2026
Clinic 2628 is a project which supports and brings together writings which stem from the intention to offer a space and sustainable time for research work in art and culture. Framed within an academic context which is increasingly less receptive to the forms in which thinking happens and is expressed, the aim is to rescue the academic from its neoliberal trappings and thus recover the alliance between precision and intuition, work and desire. A further goal is to return writing to a commons which makes this possible through the monitoring of processes and the collectivisation of ideas, stances, references and strategies.
The endeavour, rooted in a collaboration between the Museo Reina Sofía’s Studies Directorship and the Artea research group, via the i+D Experimenta project, is shaped by three annual editions conceived as spaces of experimentation, discussion and a demonstration of writings critical of what is put forward by today’s academia.
What forces, forms and processes are at play when writing about art and aesthetics? In academia, in museums and in other cultural institutions, the practice of writing is traversed by productivist logics which jeopardise rhythms of research and experimentation. The imposition of both scientism inherent in the structure of “the paper” and the quantifying of results which demand a criterion of quality and visibility sterilise and smoothen, from the outset, the coarseness that is particular to writing understood from the concrete part of language: phonic, graphic, syntactic and grammatical resistance connecting the language user to the community the language unites and activates. They also sterilise the roughness enmeshed in the same desire to write, the intuitive, clear and confusing pathways that once again connect the writer to those reading and writing, participating in a common good that is at once discovered and produced.
The progressive commercialisation of knowledge propelled by cognitive capitalism moves further away from the research and production of knowledge in artworks and artistic languages and practices. The work of curators and archive, criticism, performances and essays formerly saw a horizon of formal and emotional possibilities, of imagination that was much broader when not developed in circumstances of competition, indexing and impact. Today, would it be possible to regain, critically not nostalgically, these ways; namely, recovering by forms, and by written forms, the proximity between art thinking and its objects? How to write in another way, to another rhythm, with no more demands than those with which an artwork moves towards different ways of seeing, reading and being in the world?
The (legal) person and the legal form. Chapter II
8, 12, 15 January, 2026 – 16:00 to 19:00
As part of the Studies Constellation, the Study Directoship’s annual fellowship, art historian and theorist Sven Lütticken leads the seminar The (Legal) Person and the Legal Form: Theoretical, Artistic, and Activist Commitments to foster dialogue and deepen the hypotheses and questions driving his research project.
This project, titled Unacting Personhood, Deforming Legal Abstraction, explores the dominance of real abstractions—such as exchange value and legal form—over our processes of subjectivation, and asks how artistic practices can open up alternative ways of representing or performing the subject and their legal condition in the contemporary world.
The seminar consists of eight sessions, divided into three chapters throughout the academic year. While conceived as non-public spaces for discussion and collective work, these sessions complement, nourish, and amplify the public program of the Studies Constellation.
In this second chapter of the seminar, the inquiry into the aesthetics and politics of legal form continues with three sessions that pick up the discussions held in Chapter I but propose new lines of flight. The first session focuses on international law via the writings of the British author China Miéville, which allows us to reconsider the notion of the legal form –following Evgeny Pashukanis— and, through it, a variety of (people’s) tribunals. While the crucial concept of the legal person –as the right-holder central to the form of law— was debated in Chapter I, the second session focuses on attempts to extend personhood not (just) to corporations, but rather to nonhuman animals or ecosystems. Finally, the third session poses the question: how can groups and networks use officially recognized organizational forms (such as the foundation or the cooperative) and/or use a collective persona (without necessarily a legal “infrastructure” to match) to act and represent themselves?
Oliver Laxe. HU/هُوَ. Dance as if no one were watching you
Tuesday, 16 December 2025 – 7pm
As a preamble to the opening of the exhibition HU/هُوَ. Dance as if no one were watching you, film-maker Oliver Laxe (Paris, 1982) engages in conversation with the show’s curators, Julia Morandeira and Chema González, touching on the working processes and visual references that articulate this site-specific project for the Museo Reina Sofía. The installation unveils a new programme in Space 1, devoted from this point on to projects by artists and film-makers who conduct investigations into the moving image, sound and other mediums in their exhibition forms.
Oliver Laxe’s film-making is situated in a resilient, cross-border territory, where the material and the political live side by side. In HU/هُوَ. Dance as if no one were watching you, this drift is sculpted into a search for the transcendency that arises between dancing bodies, sacred architectures and landscapes subjected to elemental and cosmological forces. As a result, this conversation seeks to explore the relationship the piece bears to the imagery of ancient monotheisms, the resonance of Persian Sufi literature and the role of abstraction as a resistance to literal meaning, as well as looking to analyse the possibilities of the image and the role of music — made here in collaboration with musician David Letellier, who also works under the pseudonym Kangding Ray — in this project.
These inaugural conversations, part of the main working strands of the Museo’s Public Programmes Area, aim to explore in greater depth the exhibition narratives of the shows organised by the Museo from the perspective of artists, curators and specialists.
Manuel Correa. The Shape of Now
13 DIC 2025
The Shape of Now is a documentary that explores the challenges and paradoxes of memory, reparation and post-conflict justice, extending a defiant and questioning gaze towards the six-decade armed conflict in which the Colombian State, guerrillas and paramilitary groups clashed to leave millions of victims in the country. The screening is conducted by the Aesthetics of Peace and Desertion Tactics study group and includes a presentation by and discussion with the film’s director, Manuel Correa.
The film surveys the consequences of the peace agreements signed in 2016 between the Colombian State and the FARC guerrilla organisation through the optics of different victims. It was recorded shortly after this signing, a time in which doubts lingered over the country’s future, with many groups speculating in the narration. Correa harnesses the power of images, visual and bodily memory, fiction and re-staging as tools for understanding the conflict, memory and healing, as well as for the achievement of a just peace that acknowledges and remembers all victims.
The activity is framed inside the research propelled by Aesthetics of Peace and Desertion Tactics, a study group developed by the Museo’s Study Directorship and Study Centre. This annual group seeks to rethink, from a theoretical-critical and historical-artistic perspective, the complex framework of concepts and exercises which operate under the notion of pacifism. A term that calls on not only myriad practices ranging from anti-militarism and anti-war movements to activism for non-violence, but also opens topical debates around violence, justice, reparation and desertion.
Framed in this context, the screening seeks to reflect on propositions of transitional and anti-punitive justice, and on an overlapping with artistic and audiovisual practices, particularly in conflicts that have engendered serious human rights violations. In such conflicts, the role played by audiovisual productions encompasses numerous challenges and ethical, aesthetic and political debates, among them those related to the limits of representation, the issue of revictimisation and the risks involved in the artistic commitment to justice. These themes will be addressed in a discussion held after the session.
Francisco López and Barbara Ellison
Thursday, 11 December - 8pm
The third session in the series brings together two international reference points in sound art in one evening — two independent performances which converse through their proximity here. Barbara Ellison opens proceedings with a piece centred on the perceptively ambiguous and the ghostly, where voices, sounds and materials become spectral manifestations.
This is followed by Francisco López, an internationally renowned Spanish sound artist, who presents one of his radical immersions in deep listening, with his work an invitation to submerge oneself in sound matter as a transformative experience.
This double session sets forth an encounter between two artists who, from different perspectives, share the same search: to open ears to territories where sound becomes a poetic force and space of resistance.