Making Holes II

Christina Schultz's project "Making Holes" (creative and thought processes through writing) invites neighbours and fans to participate in dramatised writing sessions every Tuesday in May.

We propose you to participate in a collective process, in five sessions, of transversal and dramatised writing that revolves around the vindication of an arterial space in Barcelona, the Ramblas.

Together with the neighbourhood association SOS Rambla, we have detected that from its degraded use as a tourist attraction, Las Ramblas can only be recovered in its construction as a heterotopic space, that is, a space for everyone through the repopulation of neighbours.

The process of this project began in February with a core group, the Qualbi group (Mar Merino, Carlos Clemente, Ricardo Cardenas, Diego Ballestrini and Christina Schultz) who engaged in research both through writing sessions and through conversations with SOS Rambla to create new narratives that enable a vision of the future of a Ramblas inhabited by neighbours, not just tourists.

The starting point for the new dramatised writing sessions is a historical treasure, a real postal conversation (400 letters) between two fiancés, former neighbours of Las Ramblas. From this starting point, we will weave together this story of two inhabitants of Las Ramblas in the early 1970s, our contemporary environment, and a future with all its imaginable possibilities, social, technological and bio-environmental, we propose to execute a "literary squat" of the Rambla 14 housing building, a building mainly owned by the Generalitat de Catalunya, a building that is almost empty at the moment.

The proposal will culminate in a performative-revindicative event and a publication of the writings. The details will be defined democratically with all the participants.

By Christina Schultz, artist-in-residence in the field of Circulation and Bodies