Rerouted, because it is a space which seeks to generate learning from error. The focus is on open ways of working that we did not expect, and to distance ourselves from seeing educational practices as totalitarian, absolute and impenetrable. From these other places, it is easier to highlight norms: those things which are not seen but which discipline us with all their violence.
Radical, because the seminar wants to generate changes from the roots; changes which could affect not only the programmes but the structures in the cultural institution and which enable a radical approach to notions like care, community and participation. Changes that force us out of our comfort zones to occupy/make visible/highlight other places: those which are unfriendly, non-central, and those which, in the context of norms, do not want to materialise. Those truly able to resist.
erro(re)tik is a long-range reflection that rethinks terms such as diversity, care, community and inclusion. It comprises three lines of work: a mediation and community process looking at mental health, care and diversity; a series of training sessions that affect Tabakalera’s team, programmes and ways of working; and two public programmes such as this one presented here, held between 12th and 15th May 2021.
PROGRAMME
12th and 13th May WORSHOPS
17:00-19:30 Copy and error! -- Rubén H. Bermúdez -- SP -- Medialab
Copy and error! is an experimental photography workshop. We’ll copy things from here and there and make something. We’ll examine music, literature, film and TV. A bit of theory, and a lot of practice. We’ll copy without shame: bring on the errors!
This workshop aims to generate excitement, passion and curiosity. Our stories matter.
17:00-19:30 Technologically diverse -- Jara Rocha -- SP -- Medialab
In this workshop, we will examine highly dissimilar elements from demonstrations and anecdotes to failures, errors, cracks and repairs. We will use these to share experiences and reflections from a visual, sonorous, textual and oral perspective, together and alert: forwards, backwards, inwards, and towards both sides of the technologies around us.
What does it mean if we state that technology affects our practices but that our practices also affect technology? Which spaces, times, feelings, memories and inventions participate in these two-way (or at least two-way) effects? How do conditions such as usability, accessibility, legibility, convenience, universality or obsolescence – often decided elsewhere – limit or broaden this zone of effects? What would it mean to self-legitimise our radical participation in diverse effects with, through and despite the technologies that define our daily lives?
17:00-19:30 Screen printing workshop: creating from resistance -- Darkum Association + Infernua Bizirik -- BA, SP, AR -- Patio
We will be joined by Darkum and Infernua Bizirik, two collectives which use screen printing as a tool for anti-racist and feminist resistance. In this workshop, we will discover various printing techniques and collectivise the motto ‘do it yourself’. Bring along your old clothes and give them a new lease of life with screen printing!
*Email hezkuntza@tabakalera.eus if you would like to attend the workshop and wish to join the waiting list.
14th May PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
11:00 - 12:30 Radio languages in conversation -- Radio Nikosia + Why Not Radio Foundation -- SP, Sala Z + streaming
The Why Not Radio Foundation and Radio Nikosia discuss how radio can be a political element and a safe space. In both cases, radio is not just a way of reaching people but a place from which to question/politicise suffering and contemplate diversity.
17:00 - 19:00 Radically existing and being -- Marta Plaza + Yera Moreno -- SP (Translated to Sign Language) -- Sala Z + streaming
The impossibility of being within the prevailing reality generates unease and violence that affect countless bodies. How can we radically transform these ways of being and create spaces of mutual acknowledgement and radically revolutionary care? We will discuss feminist and anti-disablist practices and take a critical look at mental health.
19:30 - 20:30 Resistance is a physical problem -- Maite Aizpurua Olaizola -- BA -- Sala Z
When is a promise materialised? How can we run from within our own body? In sport, to run means to take the steps defined by acceleration. This theatre performance, however, invites us to stop. In the corners of bodily memory inhabited by medical verdicts, buckled strides, ironic desires and exercises in physical discipline. To stop simply to experience intimate resistances and reinvent scenarios that blow apart the concept of ‘disability’. To share the vibrations of the machine and the ghosts all around us. They say that the truth will always come out in the end. However, the truth is nothing more than a well-trained lie. A promise put into motion.
15th May PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
11:00 - 13:00 Does the cultural institution care? -- Amal Khalaf + Alex Thorp (Serpentine Galleries) + Marleen Stikker (Waag) + Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca (Reina Sofía National Art Museum) -- SP, EN -- Sala Z + streaming
This round table will examine the possibilities for creating a community stemming from the cultural institution. We will review terms such as diversity or care from a structural and programme perspective and reflect on ways of articulating collectivity in cultural centres and museums.
13:00 - 14:30 Screams and cracks in education -- Mash Elizalde + Brayan Altimasberes (Loratuz Lotu) + Ageda Blasco Egia (Mindara) -- BA -- Sala Z + streaming
Education, school, pedagogy... terms containing the capacity for transformation and critical potential. However, these spaces can also be the source of exclusion, oppression, normalisation and violence. Using three initiatives with decolonial, feminist and anti-disablist practices, we will discuss how to generate more liveable spaces within current educational frameworks.
16:00 - 17:30 Crazy culture. Undoing norms -- LOCUS Project + Asun Pié Balaguer -- SP (Translated to Sign Language) -- Sala Z + streaming
The interaction between the LOCUS* Project and Asun Pié will address questions such as the importance of starting a debate on the collective mental health model, ways of seeking and building safe spaces that turn norms on their head, and the role of citizen laboratories and cultural institutions in these processes.
18:00 - 19:30 Performative talk: Berlin Rehearsal -- La rara troupe -- SP -- Sala Z
With Nonia Alejandre, Carlos Crespo, Chus Domínguez, Alfredo Escapa, Félix Lorenzo/Ángela María, Marcos de Matos, Abel Morán, Blanca Puente, Belén Sola and Ángel Zotes.
La rara troupe gives a performative conference originally conceived for the 11th Berlin Biennale in 2020 and which was never performed in Berlin owing to the pandemic. Remixes of their archives, videos and audio together with readings and, no doubt, an invitation (albeit simulated) to share coffee and cake will form part of this lively conversation.
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A reflection that rethinks terms such as diversity, care, community and inclusion held between 12th and 15th May 2021 in Tabakalera.