SERIES

ECOLOGÍAS, TERNURAS Y RIESGOS TÁCTICOS

A programme put together by the Sala d’Art Jove 2021 mediation team: Daniel López del Rincón and Víctor Ramírez Tur, art historians. The professors share a work space at the University of Barcelona. Together, they have collaborated on research, mediation and education projects in various art institutions and universities.

PROGRAMME

(BLOCK 3)

HABITAR LAS NATUROCULTURAS O LA POTENCIA ESPECULATIVA

We are living in a time in which the urgency of the individual could make us lose our vision of the whole and in which, at the same time, we cannot think about the world in a non-situated way. This is why we believe it is necessary to examine the interconnectedness of things using a tentacular, metamorphic vision to help ourselves to think in a situated and decentralised way. The notion of naturoculture, like post-nature, allows us to address the beginnings of a concept in crisis: nature. If we ally ourselves with the work of authors like Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, this concept gives rise to a post-natural form of activism. The loss of the centrality of the human, the establishment of nomadic subjectivities, the possibility of thinking about ourselves as a companion species and of establishing relationships of meaningful otherness are transformed into methodological powers: decentralising strategies, relational tactics, speculative activations and affective mobilisations.

(A). INTRODUCCIÓN TEÓRICO-PRÁCTICA A TRAVÉS DEL ESPEJO QUIMÉRICO

with Quimera Rosa, a nomadic laboratory of experimentation and research on identities, bodies and technosciences.

TURSDAY 17 JUNE FROM 16:00 – 20:00

wetlab – Hangar

1. Emilia Coranty 16, BCN.

Collective reflection on how transdisciplinary research can be established when art interacts with science: the performativity of laboratory life, the notion of objectivity and the truth are all in play. Visual representation systems (drawing, photography, video, 3D, etc.) have been modelled on disciplines such as biology and used as verification systems (Michel Foucault). We ask ourselves what translation tools we should implement when talking about concepts such as body, life, performativity, illness, identity, the individual, the collective, autonomy, experts, etc.

 https://quimerarosa.net/transplant/

(B). IMAGINANDO FUTUROS POSIBLES PARA GENERAR PRESENTES VISIBLES

with Helen Torres, sociologist, translator and educator, and a specialist in feminist perspectives and narratives.

Friday 18 June from 16:00 to 18:00

Centre Cívic – Casa Orlandai

1. de Jaume Piquet 23, BCNEmbracing the statement of philosopher Isabelle Stengers, “Tell me what you say, and I will tell you in which construction you participate”, we invite you to a workshop where we will tune our energies, drawing on the strength of the collective to share utopian stories about other presents and draft slogans for possible futures.

The accompanying texts will be extracts taken from science fiction writers Ursula K. Le Guin and Marge Piercy; biologist and philosopher of science Donna Haraway; philosopher and chemist Isabelle Stengers; psychologist and ethologist Vinciane Despret, and writer and anticapitalist witch Starhawk. These diverse voices intertwine, generating new ways of narrating and proposing points of view to help us think in these times of disasters.

 https://helenatorres.wordpress.com

(C). SPECULATIVE DESIGN

with the Institute for Postnatural Studies, a platform of critical thought and artistic experimentation.

Saturday 19 June from 16:00 – 20:00
Sala Polivalent – Hangar
C. Emilia Coranty 16 – Barcelona.

Today, more than ever, we need to understand nature as a complex and political subject that can no longer be romanticised. The way in which it has been represented has given rise to the dichotomy existing between nature and culture. Let us design by displacing the human being from the centre of our theoretical and practical approach, forgetting about social, ergonomic or anthropocentric modes of production. How can we design for a non-human entity? What type of needs are we responding to when we design for or with a forest, river or hummingbird? Let us break new ground to speculate on desirable futures of coexistence.

 https://instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org