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Call for artistic research grants Barcelona CREA - La Escocesa 2024
After a selection process of more than 300 applications received, the jury formed by Renata Cervetto, Jesús Arpal Moya and Alba Colomo, has decided to select the following projects as part of the call for artistic research grants Barcelona Crea - La Escocesa 2024:
Cantdefineme - The Nafs and the Ruh (in Arabic: The Self and the Soul).
cantdefine.me is an artistic collective with a heritage in Africa and Abya Yala. Based in Barcelona, they examine the various dimensions of identity in the diaspora, with the intention of re-imagining new narratives. Their practice primarily involves audiovisual research, with the intention of creating archives that serve as a safe space for those who refuse to be defined by oppressive concepts, as well as to address more deeply the human experience in search and to create connections between communities.
In the framework of their research in La Escocesa, they want to build an archive from ritual practices, habits and routines (such as prayer, dance, music, art, ancestral rituals, writing, the words we say when we leave the house and/or the street) of some migrant communities living in the West. The intention is to open conversations around a collective memory of practices of care and resilience that can open up possibilities for collective healing.
‘In a world dominated by capital, we may be tempted to think of routine and repetition as instruments of centralised control. But as migrants living in the West we have noticed that our routines and self-directed or communal practices are essential to our physical, spiritual life, health, growth and resilience’.
Jordi Mani - Bonkó, Sonoran Anthropology
Mani Tapes, originally from Equatorial Guinea and currently based in Barcelona, is a DJ and producer who plays an active role in creating community through music. As a key member of the dissident collectives K-25, Donthitalanegrx and Migranta, Mani Tapes brings a unique Afrocentric sound, influenced by his Bantu heritage, fusing seamlessly with contemporary electronic music, funk and hard-hitting beats. His work goes beyond music; it is a call for connection, activism and a sense of belonging.
In the framework of his residency at La Escocesa, he will carry out a theoretical-practical analysis of the influence of traditional Bonkó rhythms and their extension to other territories through the African diaspora, as well as their fusion with contemporary electronic music. From this, he will develop a sound archive, an oral cartography and a sound performance.
La Metro - Put(a)rxiu, Archive of Memory and Affections of Sex Work in Barcelona
la Metro is a dyke, gender fluid, Catalan from Barcelona, multidisciplinary artist, artistic researcher and sex work rights activist. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and then the MUECA master's degree at the Miguel Hernàndez University (UMH), where she is currently working on her doctoral thesis in the Artistic Creation programme.
In the framework of the residency at La Escocesa she will continue her artistic archival research Put(a)rxiu, Archive of memory and affections of Sex Work in Barcelona. Some questions that articulate the research are: Does Whore Memory exist? What is an archive about sex work if we are not talking about intimacy, sexuality, pornography, love, desire, pain, migration, death, stigma? How do we make memory from affects such as pain, anger, love, shame, shame, resilience? What place does the voice of sex workers occupy and has occupied in the feminist and anti-capitalist debate? How have we become the feminist whores that we are? Is there a whore methodology for research? How can we create a world without stigma?