PIGS Self-Management Meeting of self-managed queer collectives
The MACBA is holding its second PIGS Self-management encounter with the aim of continuing to share strategies, methodologies and research topics among individuals and collectives from southern Europe working on the frontiers of cultural production and the activism of sexual dissidence. Four workshops will be developed with PEI students and anyone interested through a practical and collective project. The first referential framework bringing them together is their geopolitical context, as the stakeholders taking part live and work in the countries known in the English-speaking world as PIGS: Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. These are the countries considered most weak and unstable economically and politically within the European context, which is why they have been designated by the epithet ‘pigs’.
The second referential framework has to do with the fact that they develop working practices tied to cultural production primarily in a self-managed way. These practices are in turn permeated in different ways by sexual dissidence, feminism, queer practices and political and activist work. Here the epithet ‘pig’ seeks to reverse its burden through exploration of working models, methodologies and self-managed production as a form of autonomy and critical expression.
For this edition we have proposed four pivotal themes based on the relationship of the body with food, technology, performativity and desire. These themes, interwoven with the politics of sexual dissidence, will be approached and explored through the workshops proposed by different individuals and collectives from the PIGS.
Lucía Egaña, seminar director.
Themes around which the seminar is structured:
Anabela Moreia dos Santos and Sandra Pereria da Rocha (PT) will present transfeminist and anti-speciesist policies through a cooking workshop in which dialogue and conversation will open the critical dimension of cooking and eating. The workshop politicizes a practice of survival that puts the lives of human and non-human beings at the forefront.
The Laboratorio Smaschieramenti [Laboratory for De-mask-ulinization] (IT) proposes a critical exercise centring around the control of desire exercised by technology companies with the intention of investigating the possibilities for hacking and queerification of these platforms in their online and offline dimensions.
The drag queen Paraskevi Damaskou / Atossa (GR) offers a workshop for sharing techniques and methodologies applied to a drag practice aimed at children. Their proposal seeks to transmit this queer knowledge to adult communities to enable viralizing experiences with gender performativity in childhood.
Lastly, Elena-Urko and Patricia Carmona (ES) offer a sensory laboratory for dissident bodies with and without functional diversity to expand imaginaries and desires and make public the issues that are silenced by the idea of intimacy as something private and invisible.
Co-organized by:
Our Many Europes is a programme by the European museum confederation "L'Internationale" and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The members of L'Internationale (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Moderna Galerija (MG+msum), Ljubljana, Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands, MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, SALT Research and programs Istanbul and Ankara, and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid) and its partners National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin and Valand Academy (Gothenburg University) are presenting more than 40 public activities (conferences, exhibitions,workshops) from now and until May 2022.
Programme
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