Dis-orders - Workshop Conversations about the themes of the exhibition
The Sur Experience Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Palazzo Tito 27-28-30 October 2006 3 conversations with Javier Toret Medina. Indymedia Estrecho, Fadaiat Jose Perez de Lama. Hackitectura, Fadaiat Santiago Barber. Fiambrera Barroca Programme: FRIDAY 27th October 6:00 p.m. Artistic-political experiments in Spain One could say that many of the contemporary interventions created by social movements have been and still are clearly influenced by guerrilla communicative actions (or creative activism). This characteristic leads us to the development of hybrid forms, and bends the internal part of the movement itself and its way of conceiving its own methods. The irruption into the social sphere, the forms of communicative interventions which create new ideals and overthrow dominant codes, the creative inventions of new forms of interaction with the public, have all multiplied the power and spectrum of contemporary politics. Thus the boundary between art and political action dissolves, taking away the creative exclusivity of the arts and reconsidering forms which have been inherited from politics. In this conversation we will try to reconstruct the genealogy of these methods and discuss our most significant experiences during the past few years in Spain, in order to analyse novelty and power. SATURDAY 28th OCTOBER 2:00 p.m. Social Movements and Artistic Institutions. Co-operations, Creations and Contrasts. During the past few years a path has begun to form even if in a discontinuous manner of experimentation and co-operation between a part of the artistic and cultural institutions and a few elements which derive from the contemporary social movements. These interventions, which can be read as the desire for autonomy and creativity, find an unexpected accomplice in the embrace of these institutions. The transformations, which are taking place in contemporary forms and cultural and artistic productions, create material in the creative work of the movements which is sensitive to the institutional agents that deal with the genres used during these transformations of the cultural practices and the production of knowledge. This work with the artistic institutions has always been risky for social movements. This is an experimentation which, depending on the case in question, has shared itself as a kind of instrument, or as a punctual collaboration wherefore to put into action the various processes of innovation and creation. In this conversation there will be a presentation of the indicative problems of these experiences. MONDAY 3Oth OCTOBER 6:00 p.m. Cartographies, Methods of Investigation, Composition and Representation of Territory. Cartography: map oriented towards escape, attack and retreat lines. It differentiates itself from the mould through its capacity to renovate itself and the way it traces itself in a projective way...The cartographic method lives on the production of minor knowledge, the reorganisation and the gathering of forgotten collective knowledge. It finds itself in a context created by the necessity of the discovery and invention of a new territory. Maps and images, invented problems which shine a light on this process of creation and interdependency. Cartography as a mobility open to emerging processes, to zooms and space-time events. Cartography not as knowledge, but as continuous research, a study of the social composition and the cracks of reality. The reality of social processes in conflict. Cartography as a union of knowledge and subjects, of intertwining and opportunity. The cartography experiments on the territory, in the vast context of bio-political movements (artistic, cultural and social), have created a jargon which is useful in the presentation of forms or investigation, of representation and innovative communication, in the artistic environment as much as in the political environment. With reference to the many experiences carried out in Spain, some concrete cases (OtraMálaga, Cartografía del Estrecho, Sevilla global contracumbre in 2001) will be shown during the expo and will be analysed for their strength, mishaps and difficulties. Javier Toret: member of the Indymedia Estrecho and organiser of the first editions of Fadaiat. He works in the experimental research of artistic-social movements, and also deals with communication and organisational aspects of independent knowledge production locations. At present he works as a social researcher in the Social Rights office in Seville. Santiago Barber: Santiago Barbers artistic and communicative productions are characterised by their collaboration with various social entities in the citizen networks involved in the processes of Urban Regeneration and autonomous social organisation. In this extremely collective viewpoint the connection between different parts of the social bodies suggests working to encourage new emerging social projects. Starting from his artistic experience, one could say his work is a promotion of a sort of interdisciplinarity (which could be called collaborative work), where investigation and experimentation walk hand in hand with processes of emancipation and social struggles. At the moment Santiago Barber works for autonomous networks in the city of Seville, and in particular in the Alameda District. José Pérez de Lama, a.k.a. Osfa: member of the Hackitectura.net collective: Architect posses, hackers and social activists working for the experimentation of emerging territories and cyborg spaces. These spaces are composed of a recombination of physical spaces, ITC networks and bodies. Osfa has also participated in the 2004 and 2005 editions of Fadaiat. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
