perpetracions
The San Martín civic centre and La Escocesa have established a collaboration agreement for the participation of a resident artist from La Escocesa in their Perpetracions Festival.
Perpetracions is an action an performance festival that promotes activism and critical reflection, seeking interaction between artistic creation and community, and questioning the public space. It will take place on Saturday 1st of June, 2024, in different non-conventional spaces in the San Martín de Provenzales neighbourhood, and in the civic centre building.
Joana Capella is the artist selected to participate in the 23rd edition of the Festival Perpetracions.
2025
Dissociative states at work (productive)
La Metro & Letizia Miro
La Metro and Letizia Miro share several concerns, and this synergy makes the political and poetic discourse shared and eager to explore it together. The question “Why are creativity and sex problematic when transactions occur?” brings two worlds, the culture industry and the sex industry, into dialogue. As capitalism continues to turn life into constant production, “Work Addiction and Dissociative States” explores the possibility of other ways of being, beyond the commodification of existence. Can we really dissociate ourselves from work? Or is dissociation itself a form of survival?
Letizia Miro is a writer and artist who moves between London and Barcelona. With a PhD in philosophy from the University of London, she has studied at the Poetry School in London with poets such as Jay Bernanrd. She explores themes such as desire, the body and its possibilities, power and dissident sexualities through video, writing and visual arts. Her work navigates the intersection of dissident sexualities and existential conditions, addressing intimacy, autonomy and the material conditions of erotic capital. She has participated in exhibitions at the V&A, ICA London and 35m2 Gallery in Prague. He has published in magazines such as Propel Magazine, Glanta and Kritiker.
La Metro (Catalonia, 1996) is an artist, researcher and activist queer femme. She positions herself as a pro-sex, pro-rights and anti-racist activist from an embodied objectivity to create body-visual devices entwining feminist, kuir/queer f(r)ictions through archival art, performance, audiovisual, fanzine, digital art, installation and artistic mediation. She has been a producer of body-sensual research laboratories through performance and pole dance. Currently, she is developing her doctoral thesis in Artistic Creation to propose an archive on feminism led by sex workers in the city of Barcelona with the aim of recognizing the memory of the protagonists, honoring their resilience and combating all stigmas.
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Previous editions
2024
NO FITA, NOMÉS CROSS CROSS CROSS by Joana Capella
NO FITA, NOMÉS CROSS CROSS CROSS is an action that takes the form of an (anti)fitness encounter. It is an open performance where the public is invited to take part in a choral choreography, and in which they use twerk as a tactic to experiment with other possible gestures. The notions of intensity, performance or productivity will be explored bodily, as well as the fact of dancing in common, and the exercise of a possible collective muscular memory.
Joana Capella Buendia (1990) is a visual artist. Her practice unfolds through research, performance and material and audiovisual production. She is interested in the issues surrounding artistic production, its possibilities of existence and institutional critique, but is also interested in feminist thought and ecology.
Click here to see the complete program of Perpetracions 2024.