[spectre] Dis-orders - Workshop

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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 Barber’s 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.