LAP#1

The Laboratory of Art and Thought is an education and research programme that aims to become a platform for ideas and a space for critical thinking in which to explore the potential of artistic practice and cultural production as mechanisms of intervention in social change.

It seeks to bring together people who are interested in the interrelations between art and culture and other political and social spheres, people from the fields of the humanities, artistic practice, public policy, cultural production or management, activists and people linked to social movements or who are committed to social change and want to get involved in reflection, research and action projects in a collective work context.

The LAP understands artistic practice as a territory of confluence between diverse knowledge, accounts, disciplines and political or social interventions. In accordance with the so-called “pedagogical turn” that contemporary art and contemporary art museums around the world have experienced in recent decades, the LAP is born of a conception of the institution as a space for critical, educational and social experimentation, and aims to establish itself as a laboratory of artistic and cultural ideas at the current epicentre of contemporary crises, innovations and flows.

With a vocation for permanent activity, although also as a space undergoing constant revision and exploration, intensely related to the contemporary cultural, social and political context as well as to an institution’s need to constantly rethink itself, the LAP will be developed according to different lines of reflection and research.

An art and thought mechanism that was ultimately established with the aim of developing a project that connects the institution/museum with the debating, production and dissemination of contemporary thought. It is an experimental and interdisciplinary education project that understands education and the exchange of knowledge as essential elements for social transformation.

Direction: Imma Prieto
Contents: Imma Prieto and Berta Sureda
Methodology and management: Eva Cifre and Berta Sureda
Coordination: Eva Cifre and Pilar Rubí

Conceived of from an open and experimental perspective regarding educational processes themselves, the Laboratory of Art and Thought is formulated as a relational space and one of confluence between education, research, dialogue, critical thinking and collective construction of narratives. As a laboratory of ideas, the aim is to construct new spaces of shared knowledge, transformative spaces that both raise and open up questions, and that through a constellation of concepts and knowledge allow for the redefinition of the limits of the institution itself.

The Education programme is based on the idea of collective work, with a flexible format that is developed via three intertwining phases that integrate learning and the co-production of knowledge, research and prospective exploration.

Made up of activities of diverse formats (conferences and screenings, seminars, round tables, research processes and laboratories), each edition of the LAP will be composed of different thematic modules with the aim of generating spaces of shared knowledge. The modules are not conceived of as airtight compartments given the transversality and interconnection between the different themes.

Each module lasts three weeks and has the following structure:

FIRST WEEK

Opening conference (open activity). Conference that seeks to open up frameworks for reflection, analysis and critical debate, led by a recognised specialist in the field that each module addresses, in order to provide the whole process of the LAP with discourse, accounts, ideas and cartographies.

Conversation/coffee with… (only for registered attendees). Following the conference, the registered attendees and participants in the various modules will share an informal and relaxed session with the speaker.

Seminar and round tables (only for registered attendees). This phase begins with a talk by the participating teachers in which they will present their experiences, reflections and questions within the context of the topic of each module. Subsequently, through round tables and collective work sessions, joint reflection will be carried out to identify lines of research, prospective exploration and investigation of action and intervention mechanisms that can contribute to designing new strategies for social change.

SECOND WEEK

Internal research work (only for registered attendees). Research will be part of each module from its beginning to its completion, and will be particularly intense during the impasse between the first block (seminar and round tables) and the second block (in-person laboratory). Through meetings of the group of registered attendees, and accompanied throughout the process by the coordinator of each module, work will be developed prior to the in-person laboratory sessions. Work consisting of the investigation of tools for the generation of narratives and mechanisms that will be developed in greater depth during the in-person laboratory block.

THIRD WEEK

LAP Screen (open activity). The LAP also proposes, through the LAP Screen series and other open activities, to delve deeper and address matters of exceptional relevance related to the issues raised in each module.

Laboratory (only for registered attendees). The laboratory will consist of a co-production space, directed by three teachers/specialists, that will place the research process at the crossroads between knowledge, imagination, discursive and artistic production and modes of intervention.

The training programme will follow a learning methodology that combines theory, practice, research, reflection and critical thinking. It is structured in 5 training phases (thematic modules), which can be carried out jointly (recommended given their transversality and interconnection), although it is also possible to register and take part in either of the modules independently. In turn, each module will be deployed in two phases, with the following training objectives:

Phase 1: Analyse and contextualise. Analyse, study in depth and debate about the key concepts that make up the different themes in each module, position oneself in the social and cultural context and analyse forms of intervention in different contexts through working collaboratively.

Phase 2: Research and intervene. Approach research processes via experimentation, creation, production and use of tools and materials. Work will be done in relation to the contents of each module with an objective linked to the possibilities of action, through the development of methodologies, techniques and artistic and cultural processes capable of actively influencing social transformations.

Activities in phase 1: Analyse and contextualise

M1 Conferences, screenings and documentation. The conferences have been set up as spaces for the dissemination of content, as well as for the definition and proposal of theoretical and conceptual frameworks, while also integrating encounters and conversation with participants in order to encourage work based on reflection, debate and the exchange of knowledge. A programme of audiovisual screenings will be developed and complementary documentation will be provided in order to delve deeper into the various themes and processes.

M2 Seminars. Through the seminars, the theoretical and conceptual frameworks developed during the conferences will be expanded upon, and spaces for analysis and in-depth critical reflection will be generated by speakers and teachers in order to address the various matters from different perspectives.

M3 Round tables. Meeting points and collective work spaces for exploring the contents that will be worked on, in order to develop ideas for research and reflection on methods and mechanisms of intervention and action. The round tables are set up as a place for dialogue and exchange of experiences and knowledge in a situated thematic sphere.

Activities in phase 2: Research and intervene

M4 Research processes. In a work context that has its starting point in the research of the methods and mechanisms of intervention and transformation of the reality that is being analysed, this module will address the process of identification and delimitation of the field of research and specific aspects of the research, as well as the formulation of the final objective of the research process prior to the Laboratory and planning of work.

M5 Laboratory. A space for research, creation and production structured around cooperative and collaborative work processes, from which discursive and artistic production, the capacity for expression and possible forms of action can emerge and be re-evaluated.

ASSESSMENT

Assessment will be continuous and training-based, carried out by means of two assessment systems:

AS1. Preparation of a final project/paper on each module, in which the participants will develop reflective proposals, conclusions, experiences or critical and self-critical evaluations in relation to the whole module.

AS2. Attendance to 80% of the entire programme.

SKILLS

General skills

GS1. Ability to carry out critical analysis of contemporary society.

GS2. Ability to rethink contemporary artistic and cultural practices based on their relation to other fields and disciplines, and from within multidisciplinary research environments.

GS3. Knowledge of artistic and cultural practice as an element of intervention and social transformation.

GS4. Understanding and integration of knowledge, both in one’s own specialisation and in other broader contexts.

GS5. Ability to work collectively and cooperatively in order to interpret, reflect on and analyse key issues in the contemporary world.

GS6. Ability to identify, interpret, criticise and work based on the complexity and plurality of contemporary art discourses.

Specific skills:

SS1. Ability to connect artistic practices with contexts and conceptual references in historical, social, contemporary critical thinking or theoretical spheres.

SS2. Ability to link contemporary culture and art debates with the key social problems of today.

SS3. Ability to develop one’s own professional artistic practice in unique contexts with a greater impact on society as a whole.

SS4. Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with professionals from other fields of knowledge, horizontally and in a network, based on sharing knowledge, production and experiences.

SS5. Ability to develop research processes, including the delimitation of the field of research, the formulation of the final objective, the development of the methodology and the planning of field work.

SS 6. Capacity for experimentation and creative innovation, based on interdisciplinarity and dialogue with other contexts, disciplines and citizen networks.

SS 7. Ability to develop cultural and artistic projects, from the initial phases to their production and promotion.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the programme, participants will have a greater knowledge of how to work based on culture and artistic practices as key elements for social transformation. Specifically, they will achieve the following objectives and learning outcomes:

1) Develop strategies to critically analyse and give visibility to issues and concepts related to many of the uncertainties generated by the systemic crisis in which we are immersed, as well as activating community and social intervention spaces to deal with said issues.

2) Work collectively with people from different disciplines, through innovative and plural forms of work that generate action and mediation.

3) Analyse artistic practices that promote new forms and dynamics capable of connecting contemporary artistic and social processes.

4) Identify and interpret the conceptual and artistic tools that can contribute to the development of projects located within the framework of broad social processes, and that have the capacity to influence the reality of the contemporary world.

5) Develop research projects that require us to come together and understand different contexts, activate active listening, connections and negotiation with different agents.

6) Develop tools for specific analysis and reflection on the various creative mediums.

7) Interrelate different media in the processes of experimentation and artistic creation.

8) Become familiar with institutions, museums and art centres, and understand their relation to and influence on contemporary social and political realities.

Programme format

• The programme is made up of 5 modules with a duration of 3 weeks each.
• Registration in the full programme is recommended given the interconnection and transversality between the different modules. Nonetheless, registration in separate modules will be accepted.
• The programme is in-person, except for the second week, dedicated to the research process, which may include online sessions and work.
• Maximum number of places: 25 people.
• All the in-person activities will take place at Es Baluard Museu.
• The contents of the programme are in Catalan, Spanish and English

Recipients and registration

• Open to all people interested in the interrelations between art and culture and other political and social spheres, people from the fields of the humanities, artistic practice, public politics, cultural production or management, activists and people linked to social movements or who are committed to social change.
• The reservation of a place will be carried out in strict order of arrival of applications.
• Registration deadline for the full programme: 16 January 2022.
• Registration deadline for separate modules: one month before the start of each module.
• Registration cancellation: only be possible up to 15 days before the start of the programme. In this case, you will be entitled to a refund of the total amount minus 10% for processing expenses.

Prices and payment method

• Complete programme (5 modules): €220.
• Fee per module: €60.
• Students: 40% discount and 50% discount for Escuela Universitaria ADEMA students and teachers.
• Members of Es Baluard Museu: 10% discount.
• Registration and payment here.
• Es Baluard Museu will award 5 scholarships, 2 in the Balearic Islands (enrollment and travel) and 3 internationally (enrollment, travel and accommodation).
• Escuela Universitaria ADEMA will award 5 scholarships for economically vulnerable students.

Certification

Any participating student interested in obtaining an academic certificate validated by the Escuela Universitaria ADEMA must have attended at least 80% of the total programme, and is required to have drafted a final report (three to five pages in length).

Teaching hours: 250 h (complete programme) and 50 h (separate modules)

Open activities

• Price of access to open activities
  • Opening conferences of the modules: €5 (not applicable to people enrolled in the complete programme or to those enrolled in the module during which the conference takes place).
  • LAP Screen: free access through registration.
• Registration for the open activities will open approximately one month before the event.

How to get and hotel

• Buses – 1, 3, 5, 7 and 20, A1, CC, N1, N4 and Tourist Bus.
• Es Baluard Museu recomends AC Hotel Ciutat de Palma located a few minutes walk from the Museum (Those interested can contact the Education and Public Programs area of Es Baluard Museu).

“Contact Zone” is therefore conceived as a relational space, as a territory of confluence between education, research, dialogue, thought and critical thinking, from which to address debates related to the complexity of our reality in crisis and, ultimately, with contemporary political, social and institutional problems. As a laboratory of ideas, it aims to construct new spaces of shared knowledge, transformative spaces that both raise and open up questions, and that through a constellation of concepts and knowledge allow for the redefinition of the limits of the institution itself.

The programme was born of crises, not only to carry out an analysis based on its multiple dimensions, but also, and mainly, to propose what could be essential politics of “reparation”. Reparation is a concept that, within the framework of this proposal, operates in a polysemic way. Reparation in the sense of rebuilding what is damaged. But also reparation in the sense in which the worldwide movements in defence of human rights adhere to the demand for a more just, egalitarian, sustainable and free society.

The project was conceived before the COVID-19 crisis, essentially focused on the 2007–2008 international financial crisis and its consequences, but also on recognising ourselves as heirs to multiple unresolved crises. The public health situation caused by COVID-19 has further evidenced the need for radical transformations in the economic, political and social systems, and has hastened and made visible a latent crisis of the institutions that support our democratic societies, and this in turn clearly affects cultural institutions as well. For this reason, global awareness has raised tremendously in regards to social and economic inequalities, global precariousness, racism, the finitude of our planet’s resources, the unlimited exploitation of nature and other problems caused by the centrality of the economy in regards to public policies, to the detriment of the centrality of people and their well-being.

In its first edition, the Laboratory of Art and Thought raises the need to think about this contemporary complexity, developing its activity through five intertwined thematic axes that constitute the nervous system of Es Baluard Museu’s entire educational activity: New Institutionalisms, Environmentalisms, Feminisms, Borders and Work. Five axes that, from different perspectives, will approach some of our society’s greatest challenges: social inequality, respect for human rights, climate change, global precariousness and poverty, displacement and borders, and the need to rethink institutional structures in order to respond to these challenges.

MODULE 1. REINVENTING INSTITUTIONS: BODIES AT THE CENTRE
From 1 to 12 February

This module aims to review the role of the institution as an open public sphere, as a citizen’s laboratory in which narratives and stories intersect, spaces from which to question and be questioned. The mechanisms and structures for generating knowledge will be reconsidered, analysing artistic practices that promote new forms and dynamics capable of connecting contemporary artistic and social processes. It is based on generating maps, experiences, concepts and historiographic accounts, but also seeks to redefine borders and reinvent models, intertwining critical thinking and knowledge with experiences and practices that contribute to taking action in social and political change from the cultural and artistic production sphere.

MODULE 2. ENVIRONMENTALISMS: IMAGINING THE IMPOSSIBLE
From 3 to 19 March

This module aims to address issues such as the climate emergency and new international critical awareness regarding the limits of development, the emergence of new environmental movements and the possibility of environmental collapse, which is among humanity’s greatest concerns today. It also seeks to reflect on how the COVID-19 health crisis has brought the tourism sector to a standstill and, faced with this situation, multiple voices have been raised demanding (again) the redefinition of the tourism model, a new model that places the environment and people at its centre, taking into account social and climate justice criteria. The module aims to rethink knowledge generation mechanisms and structures from the cultural institution perspective, analysing artistic practices that promote new forms and dynamics capable of connecting contemporary artistic and social processes. And, from the artistic and cultural production sphere, in relation to ecological awareness, reflect on how to go beyond the ways of doing based on purely commercial processes or product exchange, to develop processes from which to share knowledge and cooperate effectively and sustainably.

MODULE 3. FEMINISMS: THE OTHER NON-APROPIABLE ONES
From 7 to 23 April

The fourth feminist wave, which stands out for its intersectional nature, going beyond the logic of male/female inequality to integrate race and social class into its discourses, today brings together all the demands launched by the different feminist movements and theories: inequality, violence and femicide, the feminisation of poverty, gender stereotypes, sexual freedom, the responsibility of care work and the rights that derive from it, the rights of migrant women and racism, the symbiosis of feminism/environmentalism, postcolonial feminism, the wage gap or the precariousness of feminised sectors. This module aims to open up a space for reflection and the analysis of critical, historical and conceptual tools on the main issues that are being unfolded from different feminist positions, going beyond homogenising feminism and approaching it from its complexity. It is based on various intertwined perspectives, taking into account that feminisms generate critical thinking and demands intrinsically linked to the struggle against gender inequality, yet that are also integrated into many of the demands of the struggles against the negative effects of neoliberal capitalism and in favour of radical democracy, with the desire to promote profound social transformations.

MODULE 4. DECONSTRUCTING BORDERS: DECOLONISING KNOWLEDGE
From 5 to 21 May

Module 4 is based on the complexity of the processes of human movement, migration and borders, phenomena that challenge institutional logic and put our democracies to the test. It seeks to address current migratory movements and the real situation of vulnerability in which most migrants find themselves, and how to deal with the situation of economic and social helplessness of people seeking international asylum. On its causes and impacts, on the right to migrate and to asylum, on the violation of human rights, on mortality at the borders, and on Europe’s role in its management, often in contravention of universal commitments. It looks to address the urgency of eradicating racism, xenophobia and hate speech for the improvement of our democratic societies and the reconstruction of geopolitical relations based on principles of responsibility and global justice. In short, to rethink and deconstruct the power relations and self-granted Western privileges with which we regulate and order the world. Because we are facing one of our greatest challenges as a society: the construction of a just and sustainable world, where the safety, dignity, rights and fundamental freedoms of humanity are respected.

MODULE 5. WORK: PRECARIOUS MASSES
From 2 to 18 June

This module has as its starting point the analysis of one of the most visible negative effects of capitalism, global precariousness, which is to say occupational, emotional and social precariousness. It recognises the urgency to alleviate the multiple forms of precariousness and rebuild social relations, the inequalities of accessibility and working conditions, the enormous gaps between poverty and wealth, worker exploitation, and how we have reached the point of living under a system based on precariousness. Temporary contracts, subcontracting, false self-employment, internships, underground economies, poor working men and women, etc., all ways of eluding the few worker’s rights that still remain. Faced with this, alternative proposals begin to gain strength, such as universal basic income, putting financial markets at the service of social, labour and welfare policies, the redistribution of employment or the democratisation of life within companies. A module that, above all, looks to reflect on and unfold possible forms of resistance.

CLOSING SESSION: REPAIRING CRISES
18 June

The “Contact Zone: Repairing Crises” programme aims to give visibility to the multiple crises we have been facing for decades. Crises that are interrelated, continuous and simultaneous: social, political, economic, of the climate, health and jobs. Its intention is to expose the inefficiency of our political and economic systems, which, far from placing people at their centre, continue to make the economy and its growth the axis of all policies. For this reason, more and more voices are being raised that demand a politics of repair, policies of radical transformations in the context of the civilizational crisis in which we are immersed.

“Contact Zone: Repairing Crises” aims to create a space in which to reflect and analyse, but also, and essentially, to rehearse different forms of work within the institution/museum as a space for critical, educational and social experimentation, and to seek out intervention mechanisms that contribute to repairing a world in which, in the words of Naomi Klein, “everything is too damaged”.

Through a lecture by Guy Standing, economist and one of the precursors of the precariat concept, followed by a debate with Marcelo Expósito, artist and cultural critic, we will analyse possible strategies of repair and reconstruction in favour of a more fair, equal, sustainable and free society.

The LAP also proposes, through the LAP Screen series and other open activities, to delve deeper and address matters of exceptional relevance related to the issues raised in each module.

MODULE 1. REINVENTING INSTITUTIONS: BODIES AT THE CENTRE
Screening cancelled

Capital, Costa-Gavras, 2012 (114 min)
Director Costa-Gavras portrays the life of Marc Tourneuil, a banker who becomes the CEO of a large financial entity. He is an executive who approaches the serious crisis within his organisation with renewed ideas. He has no scruples when it comes to undertaking a complete restructuring of the corporation or laying off 7% or 8% of the workforce, including those with positions closest to him, nor when spending the bank’s money on passing fancies and prostitutes. With each operation carried out, the young executive is set to receive a huge cut for his personal benefit.

MODULE 2. ENVIRONMENTALISMS: IMAGINING THE IMPOSSIBLE
Screening: Thursday 17 March

Ficciones anfibias [Amphibious Fictions], María Ruido, 2002 (33 min)
This film by María Ruido analyses the social, economic and emotional changes that the new conditions of production have imposed on the work of the traditional textile industry. As a case study, she uses the cities of Terrassa and Mataró, historically linked to the sector. Through the combination of archive material, personal testimonies and the artist’s voice-over, the film lays bare the ways in which these changes affect the lives of both the employees and ex-employees of these factories.

Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio, 1982 (87 min)
Experimental film directed by Godfrey Reggio, the first of a trilogy that deals with different aspects of the relationship between human beings, nature and technology. It describes the destructive effects of the modern world on the environment as a result of human activity, by means of documentary images of great visual and emotional impact accompanied by Philip Glass’ soundtrack. The title of the film means “life out of balance” in the language of the Hopi, a Native American tribe who inhabit the Colorado plateau in the United States.

MODULE 3. FEMINISMS: THE OTHER NON-APROPIABLE ONES
Screening: Thursday 7 April

No existimos [We Don’t Exist], Ana Solano, 2015, (66 min) Original Spanish-language version without subtitles
The story told by Ana Solano stems from a social/theoretical continuum that aims to highlight the situation of refugee women seeking asylum and refuge in France and Spain. Based on lived experiences, this documentary film investigates their treatment as well as the observance of the gender equality resolutions adopted by the United Nations. It delves into the causes and problem of how gender is used as a reason for discrimination in their countries of origin, as yet another excuse to render them invisible, and of how in some countries the female body is seen as a war weapon.

MODULE 4. DECONSTRUCTING BORDERS: DECOLONISING KNOWLEDGE
Screening: Thursday 19 May

Overseas, Sung-A Yoon, 2019 (90 min)
Sung-A Yoon directs a shocking portrait of Filipino women who are forced to travel abroad to earn a living as domestic workers. The director mixes dark humour and social criticism, while revealing a covert form of modern slavery. Overseas follows the training stages of a group of women preparing to confront a new life away from home. Most of the employment contracts force them to spend years without seeing their families, finding themselves alone in the face of exploitation and abuse of all kinds.

MODULE 5. WORK: PRECARIOUS MASSES
Screening: Thursday 16 June

Estado de malestar, María Ruido, 2019 (63′)
“Capital makes the worker sick, and then the international pharmaceutical companies sell him drugs to make him feel better. The social and political causes of stress are left aside while, conversely, discontent is individualized and internalized”. Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism.

Based on some texts by Mark Fisher, Franco Berardi “Bifo” and Santiago López Petit, as well as some conversations with philosophers, psychiatrists and people affected or diagnosed, especially with the group of activists InsPiradas from Madrid, Estado de malestar is proposed as a visual essay on social symptomatology and psychic suffering in times of capitalist realism, on the pain caused by the system of life in which we are immersed, and on what places and actions of resistance and/or change we can build to combat it.

From 1-9 February
Online work proposal: readings and previous questions through the virtual classroom

Wednesday 9 February
7 pm – 7.30 pm. LAP#1 presentation
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm. Round table with Zdenka Badovinac, Mabel Tapia and Pau Waelder

Thursday 10 February
10 am – 11 am. Visit to the Museum
11 am – 6.30 pm. Seminar and round table with Zdenka Badovinac, Mabel Tapia and Pau Waelder
7 pm – 20 pm. Public conference: Hito Steyerl. Further information.
20 pm – 21 pm. Conversation with Hito Steyerl

Friday 11 February
10 am – 7 pm. Laboratory with Jesús Carrillo, Yaiza Hernández and Manuel Segade

Saturday 12 February
10.30 am – 1.30 pm. Continuation of laboratory and preparation of conclusions
1.30 pm. Open presentation/aperitif

Hito Steyerl
Filmmaker and writer based in Berlin.

Zdenka Badovinac
Curator and writer, who has served since 1993 to 2020 as Director of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, comprised since 2011 of two locations: the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. In her work, Badovinac deals with historicization of Eastern European art and situated institutionality. She also initiated the first Eastern European art collection, Arteast 2000+. Her most recent exhibition is Bigger Than Myself: Heroic Voices from Ex-Yugoslavia, MAXXI, Rome. Her most recent book is Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe (Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, 2019). Founding member of L’Internationale, a confederation of seven modern and contemporary European art institutions. President of CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, 2010–13.

Jesús Carrillo
Degree in Art History from the University of Murcia, a master’s degree in History Studies from the Warburg Institute of the University of London and a doctorate in History from the University of Cambridge, King’s College. He was a visiting researcher at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles, Brown University in Rhode Island and at the Higher Council for Scientific Research in Madrid, and since 1997 has been professor in the Department of Art History and Theory at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), becoming Associate Professor in 2007. From July 2008 to December 2014 he directed the Department of Cultural Programmes of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

Yaiza Hernández Velázquez
Philosopher and lecturer in the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before this, she led the MRes in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London and worked for over a decade in art institutions. Among her latest publications are “Who Needs Exhibition Studies?” in Art, and its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions, and Art Becoming Public (Afterall, 2021) and “Imagining Curatorial Practice after 1972” in Curating after the Global (MIT, 2019).

Manuel Segade
Degree in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela. During 2005 and 2006 he was the content coordinator for the Metrònom Fundació Rafael Tous d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona). Between 2007 and 2009 he was a curator at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (Santiago de Compostela). In 2009 he resumed his work as an independent curator, carrying out projects for Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), ARC (Los Choros, Chile), MUSAC (León), Centre d’Art la Panera (Lleida), Pavillon Vendôme (Aix-en-Provence), Kadist Foundation (Paris), Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador), Artebi (Buenos Aires), TENT (Rotterdam) and Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid).

He was professor of curatorial practices in different Honours in Curatorship postgraduate and master’s programmes at Michaelis University (Cape Town, South Africa) and the PEI studies programme at MACBA (Barcelona). He is currently tutor of the École du Magasin (Grenoble). He was curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017, featuring a project by artist Jordi Colomer. In his most recent projects he attempts to offer forms of a gestural approach to curating as a mode of discursive distribution, in pedagogy and education formats and in curatorial actions linked to performance. He currently directs Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) in Madrid.

Mabel Tapia
Contemporary art researcher and deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid). She previously worked as coordinator of L’Internationale, a confederation of seven modern and contemporary art institutions. In addition, she co-directed the DSRA postgraduate programme in Artistic Research, Documentation and Contemporary Art (ÉESI/ENSA Bourges, France) for 3 years, and was coordinator of the Conceptualismos del Sur network, a platform of which she is still a member.

She also worked as coordinating editor of publications such as: Una imagen sísmica de los años 80 en América Latina (MNCARS, 2013 / Eduntref, 2014), Un saber realmente útil (MNCARS, 2014), Desinventario (Ocholibros, 2015) and Archivos del común II. El archivo anómico (Pasamontañas, 2020). In the field of research, she is interested in 21st-century artistic practices that are mainly characterised by the deactivation of the aesthetic function, articulating the use of archives, heuristic proposals and political practice.

Pau Waelder
Curator, writer and researcher specialising in art and new media. Doctorate in Society of Information and Knowledge from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), he is a collaborating professor at the UOC, and in curatorial and postgraduate courses at the ESDi School of Design and the Node Center for Curatorial Studies. His work explores the different aspects of the interaction between art, technology and society, as well as the relationships between digital art and the art market. He is author of the book on contemporary and digital art collecting You Can Be a Wealthy/Cash-Strapped Art Collector in the Digital Age (Printer Fault Press, 2020). www.pauwaelder.com

Yayo Herrero
Consultant, researcher and professor in the fields of political ecology, ecofeminism and education for sustainability. She has a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, a qualification in Social Education and Agricultural Technical Engineering, and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Educational Theory and Social Pedagogy. She is currently a partner at Garúa S. Coop. Mad. and teacher at various Spanish universities. She is author and co-author of more than thirty books and regularly collaborates with various media outlets.

Arquitectives
Collective formed by Pablo Amor Méndez and Cristina Llorente Roca, architects specialised in urban planning and the environment, urban management and citizen participation, as well as being Spanish delegates of the Architecture & Children international work programme of the International Union of Architects (UIA). As the Arquitectives collective they have been working since 2009 on the dissemination and transformation of architecture, urban environments and landscape, in the fields of both design and education, through a participatory, collaborative, integrationist, ecosystemic and didactic approach.

They have taught university courses and given conferences on these topics around the world (Madrid, Helsinki, Weimar, Bucharest and Sofia, among others). Their publications include Edu y la mejor casa del mundo (self-published, 2005), Escola i paisatge de Mallorca (Consell de Mallorca, 2020), Guia urbana de l’Eixample de Palma (Palma XXI, 2019) and Ecosistemes urbans (Conselleria de Medi Ambient, 2020), as well as scientific and opinion articles in both Spanish and international publications. www.arquitectives.com

Basurama
Collective currently formed by Mónica Gutiérrez Herrero, Rubén Lorenzo Montero, Alberto Nanclares da Veiga and Manuel Polanco Pérez-Llantada. Established in 2001 at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, they work in the fields of art, architecture and the environment, focusing their areas of study and action on the city, production processes and the generation of waste they imply, and on the creative possibilities raised by these contemporary conjunctures. They aim to study phenomena inherent in the massive production of real and virtual rubbish in consumer society, providing new visions that act as generators of thought and behaviour. They detect chinks within these processes of production and consumption that not only raise questions about our way of exploiting resources, but also about our way of thinking, working and perceiving reality. They use rubbish in its broadest sense as a starting point, as a means and as an end through which to think of and construct new possibilities. Networking, active participation, creativity and highlighting the importance of local resources are the keys to developing social transformation projects.

Basurama has become a multidisciplinary space in which disparate activities take place simultaneously, but all with a common focus. Along with the visual arts in their broadest sense, all types of workshops, lectures, concerts, screenings and publications have a place. The collective also aims to establish a platform so that people who form part of the social fabric, who occupy very different places yet are not too far apart, can come into contact and work together, also considering the collective as a creative hub/meeting space. They have carried out more than one hundred projects on four continents, are based in Madrid and have a permanent office in Bilbao.

Ernest Garcia
Emeritus Professor at the University of Valencia, where he was Professor of Sociology, Director of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and coordinator of ESDESOST (research group in sustainability studies). He has published: El trampolí fàustic. Ciència, mite i poder en el desenvolupament sostenible (Germania, 1995), Medio ambiente y sociedad. La civilización industrial y los límites del planeta (Alianza, 2004), Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society: Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Ecología e igualdad. Hacia una relectura de la teoría sociológica en un planeta que se ha quedado pequeño (Tirant lo Blanch, 2021). He was also a member of the coordinating committee of the network on environment and society of the European Sociological Association and president of the Valencian Sociological Association.

Luis González Reyes
Doctor of Chemistry. He is a member of Ecologistas en Acción, where he was confederal coordinator for nine years. He is a partner at Garúa S. Coop. Mad., which is dedicated to facilitating eco-social transition by promoting hands-on practices, training, researching and accompanying processes. In these four areas he works specifically on issues related to environmentalism, economics and pedagogy. He is a regular collaborator of several universities in this field. He also works at FUHEM, where he is the eco-social education coordinator. This encompasses multiple tasks, among which the development of a curriculum with an eco-social approach for all stages and didactic materials stands out.

He also coordinates organic and healthy school meals, and participates actively in various equitable and resilient organisations such as Entrepatios (housing), El Arenero (parenting) and Las Carolinas (food). He is author and co-author of a score of books on different facets of social environmentalism, among them En la espiral de la energía (Libros en Acción, 2018) and Educar para la transformación ecosocial (Fuhem Ecosocial, 2018).

Ivan Murray
Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). He has a PhD in Geography from the UIB and an MS (Master of Science) in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh. He has taught undergraduate, graduate and master’s degrees in geography and tourism studies. His lines of research are framed within the perspective of critical geography, bringing together forms of analyses from political economics, political ecology and sustainable economics. His research focuses on studying the spatial logics of capitalist tourism, its contradictions and its associated conflicts. His publications include the following books: Geografies del capitalisme balear (UIB, 2012), Capitalismo y turismo en España (Alba Sud Editorial, 2015), Turistificación global. Perspectivas críticas en turismo (Icaria, 2019), Tourism and Degrowth (Routledge, 2020) and #TourismPostCOVID19. Turistificación confinada (Alba Sud Editorial, 2021).

He has also published numerous academic articles. He is a member of the Research Group on Sustainability and Territory of the UIB and of the Transdisciplinary Research Group on Socio-ecological Transitions of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), and is part of the editorial teams of Scripta Nova and Political Ecology magazines. He also participates in environmentalist and anti-capitalist social movements. Among others, he is linked to Grup d’Ornitologia i Defensa de la Naturalesa (GOB) and was part of the Tot Inclòs collective. He also collaborates with the Alba Sud organisation in relation to the critical analysis of touristification and the search for counter-hegemonic alternatives.

Margalida Ramis
Degree in Physics and is an ecofeminist activist. She has worked in the fields of energy management and renewable energies, at the head of the Energy Agency of Menorca and the Balearic Islands, as well as in the field of consulting on waste management. She began her studies at the Department of Geography of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) as a member of the Research Group on Sustainability and Territory (GIST). She was founding president of the Balearic Islands branch of the Ingeniería Sin Fronteras NGO.

Currently, and for the past ten years, she has worked in Grup d’Ornitologia i Defensa de la Naturalesa as spokesperson and head of the Area of Territory, Resources and Eco-social Transition. In relation to the dissemination of social and political environmentalism, she gives workshops and talks, participates in courses and seminars and regularly collaborates with various media such as La Directa, Ona Mediterrània Ràdio and Ara Balears newspaper, and also with the Alba Sud and Conca 5.1 associations.

Thursday 7 April
7 pm—9 pm: LAP Screen
No existimos, Ana Solano, 2015 (66′)

Friday 8 April
10 am – 7 pm. Seminar and round table with Suely Rolnik, Neus Tur and Brigitte Vasallo

Saturday 8 April
10.30 am – 1.30 pm. Continuation of round table and beginning of the research group
1.30 pm. Conclusions

From 9 to 21 April
Research work, research group meetings, activation of visual and documentation resources.
Process accompaniment: Neus Tur

Thursday 21 April
7 pm – 9 pm. Public conference: Judith Butler

Friday 22 April
10 am – 11 am. Conversation/coffee with Judith Butler
11 am – 7 pm. Laboratory with Tonina Matamalas, Lucía Mbomío and PSJM

Saturday 23 April
10.30 am – 1.30 pm. Continuation of laboratory and preparation of conclusions
1.30 pm. Open presentation

Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also affiliated faculty with the Psychosocial MA Program at Birkbeck College in London and the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School in Sass Fee, Switzerland. Activist and philosopher specialized in gender studies, although her work includes reflections on ethics, political thought and human rights.

She is the author of several books: Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987); Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990); Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (1993); Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004); Undoing Gender (2004). Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages.

Butler has been active in several human rights organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Tonina Matamalas
Currently resides in Berlin. She is a visual artist who works with moving images and drawing as a means to create documentaries, and her artistic projects cannot be separated from her transfeminist activism. She is interested in collaborative video creation, experimental animation and video and self-publishing as tools for building narratives for survival within current and future chaos. She was a mentor in the Anidox documentary animation workshop at the Miradas DOC 2019 festival and a member of the jury of the Xposed Queer film festival Berlin 2021.

She is currently working on the art direction for an animation/documentary feature film by director Katrin Rothe and on the audiovisual creation for the opera La voz humana, work she combines with the making of the short film Amigas, muy amigas with Rosa García and Manuela Acereda, awarded by the Xposed film fund Berlin 2019, on lesbian representation in 1990s pop culture. She is also a founding member of experimental performance and video collective Titiv. Her latest short film, Organizar lo (im)posible, received the award for best short film at the 2018 London Feminist Film Festival, among others, and was shown at various festivals around the world. Projecte Úter is one of the key projects of her career. It is a documentary drawing she began in 2014 based on abortion and sexual and reproductive freedoms. In 2020, continuing with the theme, she carried out the exhibition Teixit conjuntiu at Casal Solleric (Palma).

Lucía Mbomío
She has worked as a television reporter since 2005 on programmes such as Madrid directo, Españoles en el mundo, El método Gonzo and, currently, Aquí la Tierra, on TVE 1. In addition, she collaborates with various written media outlets, among which are worth mentioning El País (Verne, SModa, Barrionalismos), Mundo Negro, Afroféminas, Píkara Magazine and Ctxt. She has written two books: Hija del camino (Grijalbo, 2019) and Las que se atrevieron (Sial/Pigmalión, 2017), a work whose audiovisual reproduction rights have been bought by Netflix with the aim of producing a series. Six years ago she began to analyse the representation of black, African and Afro-descendant people in the media. As a result, she gave a TedX talk in 2017 titled “Do Races Exist?”, and received the communications award from the APDHE in 2020.

PSJM
Creative, theory and management team formed by Cynthia Viera and Pablo San José. PSJM presents itself as an art brand, appropriating the procedures and strategies of advanced capitalism to subvert its symbolic structures. Their pieces are present in numerous international exhibitions such as Personal Structures, in the context of the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Beyond the Tropics, in the context of the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Hic et Nunc, Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, DC, 2014); One Shot!, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (São Paulo, 2014); Off Street, A Foundation (London, 2009); The Real Royal Trip… by the Arts, MoMA PS1 (New York, 2003), in collaboration with El Perro and Aitor Méndez, along with others in Spain such as Prophetia, Fundació Miró (Barcelona, 2015 ) and PIGS, Artium (Vitoria, 2016).

Suely Rolnik
Psychoanalyst, essayist, curator and full professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Sorbonne Université in Sociology and Philosophy (Paris VIII) and in Clinical Human Sciences (Paris VII). In the latter she has also received the Diploma of Specialized Higher Studies. She has a doctorate in Social Psychology from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. She was a guest researcher at the Fondation de France, at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (2007). She is dedicated to the investigation of the regime of the colonial-racializing-capitalist unconscious from a transdisciplinary theoretical perspective, inseparable from a clinical, political and cultural pragmatics. Rolnik has a wide international performance in conferences, seminars, offices and the publication of essays and books of her authorship. In Spanish: Esferas de la insurrección. Apuntes para descolonizar el inconsciente (Tinta Limón, 2019; originally published in Brazil, 2018), Cartografía sentimental (originally published in Brazil, 1989), and co-authored with Félix Guattari Micropolítica. Cartografías del deseo (Tinta Limón and Traficantes de Sueños, 2006; originally published in Brazil, 1986).

Neus Tur
Degree in Political and Administrative Sciences from the University of Barcelona (UB), a master’s degree in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies (UB) and a postgraduate degree in Social and Solidarity Economics/Cooperative Studies from the Solidarity Economy Network and Pompeu Fabra University (XES/UPF). She has worked as a teacher, researcher and advisor in the field of legal feminism, public policies and gender mainstreaming, feminist theory, violence against women, sexual and reproductive rights, and the human rights of women and the LGTBIQ+ community. She is a member of the Feminist Studies Group at the Carlos III University of Madrid, a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and a feminist activist.

Brigitte Vasallo
Freelance writer and researcher. Even without having a university degree, she is a teacher of the Gender and Communications master’s course at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She was a consultant for the Intimate project, at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, and directed and curated the I Festival de Cultura Txarnega in Barcelona. Her published books include PornoBurka (self-published, 2013), Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso (Oveja Roja 2017, translated as El desafío poliamoroso in Argentina and Brazil, Paidós, 2020), Mentes insanas (RBA, 2020) and Lenguaje inclusivo y exclusión de clase (Larousse, 2021).

She is a regular contributor to media outlets such as Rac1, Pikara Magazine, elcritic.cat or Ara newspaper, and her work has been translated into English, French, Arabic, Italian and Portuguese, among other languages. In the performing arts field, she co-directed the piece Un cos (possible) i lesbià, with Alba G. Corral, and wrote and directs Trilogía de Naxos.

Thursday 5 May
7 pm – 9 pm. Public conference: Banu Cennetoğlu

Friday 6 May
10 am – 11 am. Conversation/coffee with Banu Cennetoğlu
11 am – 7 pm. Seminar and round table with Tania Adam, Meritxell Esquirol and Sandro Mezzadra

Saturday 7 May
10.30 am – 1.30 pm. Continuation of round table and beginning of the research group
1.30 pm. Conclusions

From 7 to 19 May
Research work, research group meetings, activation of visual and documentation resources.
Process accompaniment: Meritxell Esquirol

Thursday 19 May
7 pm – 9 pm: LAP Screen
Overseas: esclavas del s. XXI, Sung-A Yoon, 2019 (90’)

Friday 20 May
10 am – 7 pm. Laboratory with Carles Bover, Marusia López Cruz and Grigri

Saturday 21 May
10.30 am – 1.30 pm. Continuation of laboratory and preparation of conclusions
1.30 pm. Open presentation

Banu Cennetoğlu
Istanbul-based artist engaged in a wide range of cross-disciplinary practices. Her practice incorporates methods of mapping, collecting and archiving in order to question and challenge the politics of memory, as well as the production, distribution and consumption of information. Since 2007 Cennetoğlu is a facilitator for The List, an ongoing collaboration with UNITED for Intercultural Action, a human rights NGO based in Europe. She is the founder of BAS, an, artist-run space dedicated to artists’ books and printed matter. Cennetoğlu had solo exhibitions at institutions including K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Sculpture Center, New York; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Bonner Kunstverein; Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest; Kunsthalle Basel. She has participated in the Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, Gwangju, Athens and Venice Biennials, as well as Manifesta 8 and documenta14. Cennetoğlu is currently an advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.

Tania Adam
Journalist and cultural producer, is the founder of Radio Africa Magazine. Her work explores African migration, diasporas and music throughout the Black Atlantic. Her multidisciplinary practice breathes alternative stories about the African continent and the heterogeneity of Blackness into the collective imaginary in order to respond to the questions and difficulties that emerge from the social adaptability of Afro-diasporic cultures and people in the Spanish and European territory.

She has been the presenter and director of Radio Africa on Betevé Radio since 2018, and has written in media outlets such as El Salto Diario, El Crític, La Directa, Africa is a Country, Ctxt and La Maleta de Portbou. In addition, she coordinated and participated in numerous debates and conferences at renowned cultural institutions in Spain such as MACBA, CCCB, Born Centre Cultural and the Biennial of Thought in Barcelona, Matadero and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and Tabakalera in Donostia. She also took part in the Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial in Mali.

Carles Bover
Graduate in Audiovisual Communication and is specialised with a master’s degree in Documentary and New Formats and in Audiovisual Distribution and Marketing. In 2015, Bover presented his first documentary short film, Escucha mi mirada, about his cousin with cerebral palsy. He then co-produced and co-directed his first documentary feature, Gas the Arabs, with Julio Pérez in 2018, on the situation in the Gaza Strip following a bombing by the Israeli army, as well as his latest short film titled GAZA (2017), winner of the 2019 Goya Award for Best Documentary Short Film. In 2020 he premiered his first solo feature film, Destrucció creativa d’una ciutat, about the gentrification of Palma.

Meritxell Esquirol
Researcher and cultural analyst with a PhD in Media and Communications, specialising in critical feminist theory, theory of representation and political economics. She is a collaborating professor of Sociology of Media and Communications at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and since 2010 has coordinated the Fòrum Comunicació, Educació i Ciutadania communications development project, promoted by Ingeniería Sin Fronteras of the Balearic Islands and financed by the Directorate General of Cooperation of the Government of the Balearic Islands. In both the academic and professional fields, she incorporates analysis which is post/de-colonial, intersectional and community-based, developing participatory, collaborative and network-based processes.

Grigri
Platform dedicated to cultural research, creative practice and production that focuses its area of action on participatory design, urban intervention and community processes of a transdisciplinary nature. It develops its work in collaboration with other groups and agents that operate in various areas of city management and construction. Its proposals are developed in a collaborative, experimental and situated way, in constant dialogue with the context and the unforeseen. Shared experience and affective ties are the fundamental basis for the design and implementation of programmes that aim to promote communication between the various individuals and groups involved in the development of actions of common interest. Grigri, founded as a cultural association in 2016, is made up of curator and cultural producer Susana Moliner and architect David Pérez.

Marusia López Cruz
Mexican feminist with a degree in Ethnology from the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City and a master’s degree in Gender and Development from the University of Barcelona (UB). She is currently co-director of the Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Defensoras, an organisation created in 2010 for the all-round feminist protection of women human rights defenders and organisations against the socio-political violence that takes place in the region. She was the director for Mexico and Central America of the international feminist organization Just Associates (JASS).

In 1994 she began her activity in organisations with work in the community sphere, promoting the rights of women in rural, indigenous and popular urban areas. She later became the coordinator of the Elige Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, and was part of the Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equality. She is an advisor to the Global Fund for Women and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Calala Women’s Fund. In 2013 she received the Women Have Wings Award, preceded by the Omecíhuatl Medal in 2012, awarded by the National Institute of Women in Mexico. Among her most recent publications are: Protección colectiva para defender el territorio (JASS & Fund for Global Human Rights, 2021), La crisis ya estaba aquí (IM-Defensoras, 2020), Caminando más seguras, saberes para nuestra protección (JASS, 2020) and Repensando la protección, el poder y los movimientos (JASS, 2017).

Sandro Mezzadra
Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna and Associate Researcher at the Culture and Society Institute of Western Sydney University. He has been visiting professor and researcher at different centres, including the New School for Social Research (New York), Humboldt University (Berlin), Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris), University of Ljubljana, FLACSO Ecuador and UNSAM (Buenos Aires). Over the past decade, his work has focused mainly on the relationships between globalisation, migration and political processes, on contemporary capitalism, as well as on postcolonial theory and criticism. He is an active participant in debates on post-operaismo and one of the founders of the Euronomade website (www.euronomade.info).

His published work includes: Derecho de fuga. Migraciones, ciudadanía y globalización (Traficantes de Sueños, 2005), La condizione postcoloniale. Storia e politica nel presente globale (Ombre Corte, 2008), Un mondo da guadagnare. Per una teoria politica del presente (Meltemi, 2020) and In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Along with Brett Neilson, he is also author of Border as Method (Duke University Press, 2013) and The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019). He has worked on various European and international research projects, and currently coordinates the Horizon 2020 PLUS (Platforms, Labour, Urban Spaces) project.

Thursday 2 June
7 pm – 9 pm. Public conference: Remedios Zafra

Friday 3 June
10 am – 11 am. Conversation/coffee with Remedios Zafra
11 am – 7 pm. Seminar and round table with Rafael Borràs, Ernest Cañada and Iván Miró

Saturday 4 June
10.30 am – 1.30 pm. Continuation of round table and beginning of the research group
1.30 pm. Conclusions

From 4 to 16 June
Research work, research group meetings, activation of visual and documentation resources.
Process accompaniment: Rafael Borràs

Thursday 16 June
7 pm – 9 pm. LAP Screen. Estado de malestar, María Ruido, 2019 (63′)

Friday 17 June
10 am – 7 pm. Laboratory with Daniel G. Andújar, Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido and María Ruido

Saturday 18 June
10.30 am – 1.30 pm. Continuation of laboratory and preparation of conclusions
1.30 pm. Open presentation

Remedios Zafra
Essayist and researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). She works on the critical study of contemporary culture, creative practice as work, feminism and the politics of online identity. Formerly professor of Art, Digital Culture and Gender Studies at the University of Seville and a tutor of Social Anthropology at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), she has a doctorate and a degree in Art, a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, doctoral studies in Political Philosophy and a master’s degree in Creativity.

She is the author of several books including: Frágiles (Anagrama, 2021), El entusiasmo. Precariedad y trabajo creativo en la era digital (Anagrama, 2017), Ojos y capital (Consonni, 2015), (h)adas. Mujeres que crean, programan, prosumen, teclean (Páginas de Espuma, 2013), Un cuarto propio conectado (Fórcola Ediciones, 2010) and Netianas (Lengua de Trapo, 2005). For her essay work she has obtained the following awards: Anagrama de Ensayo, Estado Crítico, Público de Las Letras, Málaga de Ensayo, Comunicación de la Associació de Dones Periodistes de Catalunya, Investigación de la Cátedra Leonor de Guzmán, Ensayo Carmen de Burgos and Meridiana de Cultura del Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer. Since 2000, she has worked as a curator and director of various projects and exhibitions on art, digital culture and feminism. She is currently a member of the board of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. www.remedioszafra.net

Daniel G. Andújar
Visual artist, theorist and activist who, through irony and the use of the presentation strategies of new communication platforms, questions the democratic and egalitarian promises made by these media outlets, and criticises the desire for control they hide behind their apparent transparency. He is the founder of Technologies to the People, member of irational.org (an international reference for art online) and director of various internet-based projects such as e-barcelona.org, e-stuttgart.org and Postcapital Archive (1989–2001).

His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world, including Manifiesta 4, 53rd Venice Biennale, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Kyiv Biennial and 3rd Seoul International Biennale of Media Art. In 2015 Manuel J. Borja-Villel organised a tour of his work at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and in 2017 he participated in documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel.

Rafael Borràs
He has carried out various responsibilities as part of the CCOO union and worked as a socio-labour analyst at the Gadeso Foundation. Retired since May 2018, he still regularly collaborates with various media outlets in Mallorca. He writes regularly for the Alba Sud development research and communication association and for Sin Permiso digital magazine. His published work includes essays such as Precarietat. De la inestabilitat a la pobresa laboral. El cas de les Illes Balears (Fundació Gadeso, 2015) and Pens, dic, faig… (Ona Mediterrània, 2019). He coordinated Anuari del treball de les Illes Balears 2016 (GOIB, 2017) and took part in collective publications including Anuari del turisme de les Illes Balears (Agència d’Estratègia Turística de les Illes Balears, 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions) and #TourismPostCOVID19. Turistificación confinada (Alba Sud Editorial, 2021).

Ernest Cañada
Doctor in Geography and History, and founder/coordinator since 2008 of Alba Sud, an independent research centre in the social field with a presence in Spain and several Latin American countries. He is also an associate professor at the universities of Barcelona and Angers. He is specialised in studies on tourism, from critical perspectives, and labour, in particular on job insecurity. His latest publications include: Cuidadoras. Historias de trabajadoras del hogar, del servicio de atención domiciliaria y de residencias (Icaria, 2021), #TourismPostCOVID19. Turistificación confinada (Alba Sud Editorial, 2021), Turistificación global. Perspectivas críticas en turismo (Editorial Icaria, 2019), La externalización del trabajo en hoteles. Impactos en los departamentos de pisos (Alba Sud Editorial, 2016) and Las que limpian los hoteles. Historias ocultas de precariedad laboral (Icaria, 2015).

Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido (ITS)
Project founded by Raquel Friera and Xavier Bassas that combines art and the questioning of philosophy and politics, reflection and activism of time. The ITS is a life project because it transversally concerns everyone’s life, from our birth—and before we are born—to our death—and even after—. The ITS identifies chrono-normativity in all areas of our societies and responds to it through chrono-diversity. www.institutodeltiemposuspendido.es

Raquel Friera has a degree in Economics and in Fine Arts. Her artistic projects denounce the diverse mechanisms of social control: detention centres for migrants, racial and religious identities, and economic morality, among others. Feminist thought has increasingly accompanied her work and has finally helped her synthesise the questioning of time as an essential mechanism for the production of subjectivity in our societies. www.raquelfriera.net

Xavier Bassas is a professor of French Studies at the University of Barcelona, a translator of French thought and a philosopher by vocation. Of his numerous collaborations and publications, the series L’art de la cronodiversitat (CaixaForum Barcelona, 2021) and his two recent books stand out: Jacques Rancière. Ensayar la igualdad (also in Catalan, Gedisa, 2018) and a conversation with Jacques Rancière himself titled El litigio de las palabras. Diálogo sobre la política del lenguaje (NED, 2019; also in French, La Fabrique, 2021).

Ivan Miró
Sociologist and cooperative member of La Ciutat Invisible. Coordinator of the postgraduate course in Social and Solidarity Economics/Cooperative Studies from the Solidarity Economy Network and Pompeu Fabra University (XES-UPF), he is a researcher in Coòpolis, the Barcelona Cooperative Centre. He is also a member of the board of the Federació de Cooperatives de Treball de Catalunya, patron of the Roca Galès Foundation and an activist in the Can Batlló Self-Managed Community and Neighborhood Space.

His published work includes books such as: L’Economia social i solidària a Catalunya. Fonaments teòrics i reptes estratègics (Icaria, 2020), Ciutats cooperatives. Esbossos d’una altra economia urbana (Icaria, 2018), L’economia social i solidària a Barcelona (Barcelona City Council, 2016) and La revolta que viurem (Tigre de Paper, 2015), among others.

María Ruido
Filmmaker, visual artist, researcher and teacher. She lives in Madrid and Barcelona, where she works as a professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Design of the University of Barcelona (UB), and is a member of several research groups who investigate representation and its contextual relationships. Since 1998, Ruido has been developing interdisciplinary projects on the social construction of the body and identity, the representation of work in post-Fordist capitalism, and on the construction of memory and its relationships with narrative forms of history. More recently she has been working on the new forms of decolonial representation and their emancipatory possibilities.

Her productions include essay films such as La memoria interior (2002), Tiempo real (2003), Ficciones anfibias (2005), Plan Rosebud (I & II) (2008), ElectroClass (2011), Le rêve est fini (2014), L’oeil impératif (2015), Mater Amatísima (2017) and Estado de malestar (2019).Since the early 2000s, she has participated in various Spanish and international exhibition projects, as well as film and video festivals, circulating her work between both institutions, the artistic and the cinematographic.

6 pm. Public lecture: Guy Standing
6.45 pm. Debate between Guy Standing and Marcelo Expósito, moderated by Berta Sureda

Guy Standing
Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, and an honorary professor at the University of Sydney. An economist with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, he is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, co-founder and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), and member of the Progressive Economy Forum. In 2016-19, he was adviser to Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell.

He was professor in SOAS, Bath and Monash Universities, and Director of the ILO’s Socio-Economic Security Programme. He has been a consultant for many international bodies, was Research Director for President Mandela’s Labour Market Policy Commission, and has implemented several basic income pilots. His books include The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, published in 23 languages (fourth edition, 2021); The Corruption of Capitalism (third edition, 2021); Basic Income: And how we can make it happen (2017); and Plunder of the Commons (2019). In 2020, he collaborated with Massive Attack in a video based on his book, Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now (2020).

Marcelo Expósito
Artist and cultural critic. His publications include Walter Benjamin, Productivist (Consonni, 2013), Conversación con Manuel Borja-Villel (Ediciones Turpial, 2015) and Discursos plebeyos (Icaria, 2019). His work has been the subject of recent retrospectives at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona), FICUNAM 11 (International Film Festival of the National Autonomous University of Mexico) and the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City.

He has also exhibited in international exhibitions and institutions such as Aperto ’93 at the Venice Biennale, the 6th Taipei Biennial, Manifesta 8 European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Bienalsur in Buenos Aires, the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, the Ibero-American Theatre Festival (FIT) in Cádiz, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Centro Galego de Artes da Imaxe (CGAI) in A Coruña. For the past three decades, he has taken part in social movements in support of democratic radicalisation, and held the positions of secretary of the Spanish Parliament and MP during the 11th to 12th legislatures (2016–2019).

Who can apply?

The grants are addressed to individuals from various backgrounds or in circumstances considered to be “vulnerable” (see the section “Modalities”). Any person interested in the interrelationships between art and culture and other political and social contexts may apply, including those from the fields of artistic practice, as well as those in the humanities, public policy, research, production or cultural management, as well as activists and those involved in social movements or engaged in social change, seeking to involve themselves in projects centred on reflection, research and action in the context of collective labour.

Modalities

The programme features 3 grant modalities with the goal of encouraging people originally from the Balearic Islands residing outside the island of Mallorca (2 grants), international participants (3 grants) and, a fourth modality, from the Escuela Universitaria Adema, five grants for residents in Mallorca in circumstances of personal vulnerability. The modalities include various quantities and conditions.

MODALITY 1
– 2 grants to encourage attendance to the LAP#1 programme for individuals residing in Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera

• Grant to contribute to travel costs, and to lodging and food, for a total of 1000 euros (payment in 5 instalments of 200 euros, to be paid at the start of each module).
• Free registration
• Conditioned on attendance of the full programme
• Those receiving this grant must deliver, no later than 2 months after the termination of the programme, a report of a maximum of 10 pages providing full information on their experience in the programme.

MODALITY 2
– 2 grants to individuals residing in any African country

• Travel and lodging expenses.
• Free registration
• Conditioned on attendance of the full programme
• Those receiving this grant must deliver, no later than 2 months after the termination of the programme, a report of a maximum of 10 pages providing full information on their experience in the programme.

MODALITY 3
– 1 grant of international scope for an individual residing outside of Spain and not a Spanish citizen

• Travel and lodging expenses
• Free registration
• Conditioned on attendance of the full programme
• Those receiving this grant must deliver, no later than 2 months after the termination of the programme, a report of a maximum of 10 pages providing full information on their experience in the programme.

MODALITY 4
– 5 Adema grants for individuals in circumstances of “vulnerability”, residing on the island of Mallorca

• Free registration
• Conditioned on attendance of the full programme
• Those receiving this grant must deliver, no later than 2 months after the termination of the programme, a report of a maximum of 10 pages providing full information on their experience in the programme.

Documentation to present

Those interested in applying must send the following documentation:

• Biography or CV detailing basic data, as well as education and/or career path of the applicant (personal contact details must be attached)
• Motivational letter, maximum 600 words
• Information on language skills
• Documentation corroborating place of residence
• In the case of Modality 4 “Adema Grants”, documentation* corroborating the applicant’s personal circumstances of vulnerability.

Deadlines and application form

The registration deadline is Friday 17 December, at 2pm.

To apply for any grant, applicants must send all the required documentation to lap@esbaluard.org.

In the email subject, please indicate the terms “Grant Application”, as well as the modality of the grant requested.

Selection process

The evaluation commission is made up of three members of the programming team of the Es Baluard Museu Art and Thought Laboratory. The selection will take into consideration the relationship between the programme content and the applicant’s academic, professional and activist path, as well as the motivations expressed in the corresponding text. Knowledge of Catalan, Spanish and English will be taken into consideration.

In the case of Modality 4 “Adema Grants”, the following considerations of applicants will be taken into account.

• Individuals who have suffered mistreatment
• Individuals in economic difficulties
• Individuals with special needs
• Individuals currently seeking residency status

* Specific documentation, Adema Grants

• Individuals who have suffered mistreatment
  • Documentation from the Institut Balear de la Dona and/or a police report corroborating abuse (a confidentiality document will be signed by the Es Baluard Museum).
• Individuals facing economic hardship 
  • In the case of employed individuals, the applicant’s tax return must be included, which should indicate income less than €20,000. A sworn affidavit to the effect that the individual is not living with other individuals must be signed.
  • In the case of family income, it must be less than €20,000.
  • In the case of individuals carrying out their economic activity as self-employed, the tax return showing an income of less than 20,000 must be submitted, as well as the Personal Income Tax return (Spanish IRPF).
  • In the case of individuals who are unemployed, a report on the uninterrupted period registered in the employment office must be submitted.
• Individuals with special needs
  • Confirmation certificate of the degree of the concrete special need, as expedited by the Direcció General de Dependència or equivalent special needs agency.
• Individuals in the process of acquiring their residency papers
  • Documentation/application in process of the residency permit.

In all cases, it is required to present a sworn affidavit confirming the truth of all documentation submitted.

More information and consultations

Contact: lap@esbaluard.org