Foto: Christina Schultz
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The Rebel Neighbourhood
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The Ciutat Meridiana neighbourhood has the largest concentration of mortgage foreclosures in Barcelona. The majority of those affected are immigrants who bought flats during the real estate bubble and who, caught in negative equity, can no longer afford to keep up their monthly payments. Fili Bravo is the head and charismatic heart (although he doesn’t like us calling him like that) of the Neighbours Association, which, with extraordinary solidarity, struggles to prevent two or three evictions every week.
Attracting approximately sixty to eighty neighbours, mostly women, the weekly meetings are inspiring and exemplary as a civic, supportive and persistent movement. With great dignity and enthusiasm, they seek mutual solutions for their growing poverty and the government’s neglect.
We want to celebrate this movement with a big paella and invite everyone to get to know this neighbourhood that welcomes those who enter the city from the east, either by car or train. Because the periphery is also Barcelona.
Coordinated by Christina Schultz
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Christina Schultz
Christina Schultz is a research-based, multidisciplinary artist, performer, and linguistic nomad. The word, written, sung, or recited, is the central axis of her work; it is the medium to create lasting relationships, collaborative processes, and performative-literary outcomes.
She devises complex projects on socio-political issues in close, transdisciplinary exchange with participants, artists, and specialists. In her research processes, which are as important as the results, she uses writing techniques from literature, composition, and theater, which are offered and collectivized in workshops, seminars, or laboratories. Although the research results are process-dependent, they range between performative and audiovisual formats such as open rehearsals, readings, performances, theater scripts and publications, animated video works, and documentaries to address a broad audience.
More information: christinaschultz.com
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She devises complex projects on socio-political issues in close, transdisciplinary exchange with participants, artists, and specialists. In her research processes, which are as important as the results, she uses writing techniques from literature, composition, and theater, which are offered and collectivized in workshops, seminars, or laboratories. Although the research results are process-dependent, they range between performative and audiovisual formats such as open rehearsals, readings, performances, theater scripts and publications, animated video works, and documentaries to address a broad audience.
More information: christinaschultz.com
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