Spoken word and vocal improvisation workshop whose results will be reflected in a podcast.

Tendrás que hacerlo de cualquier manera (You'll have to do it anyway) is, above all, a light and subtle cry that celebrates the importance of conquering the useless. The activity thus appropriates the words used by Werner Herzog to describe that inner drive that knows no limits, that is drawn and blurred incessantly on its way to what is desired. In this way, the need to conquer that which no one else cares about is united with the determination to do so in any way. It is pleasant to think that all of us, at some point, have defined ourselves (or still define ourselves) as conquerors of enterprises, which, in time, reveal their uselessness. Companies that, in addition, leave behind them a series of traces, which can both pursue us and wrap us up, forming our personal archive of the impossible, our inevitable "archeology of the useless". This workshop/podcast is designed especially for those who are unable to get rid of these objects. We will create a space in which they will have a second life through our voices.

Structure:

- Presentation and introduction to spoken word.
- Description of the material brought by the participants.
- Development of collective, anonymous and collaborative exercises, based on the reflections made with the objects.
- Creation of a mask (black bag), using collage as a technique, to be used during the improvisation, with the intention of preserving the testimonies in anonymity.
- Group improvisation.
- Recording of the improvisation.
- Joint reflection.

By the Communication Guild 

With the participation of Pilar Talavera

Pilar Talavera (Lima, 1979) is a performance artist, musician, poet, philosopher and radio broadcaster. Together with Laura Renau, she hosts the literary magazine oRUIDOoPOESÍAo (Dublab), focused on the spoken word genre in a feminist key; and, at El Prat Radio, she directs and produces Rastros de Carmín, a weekly program dedicated to experimental music made by women. In addition, she creates sound collages that are transmitted monthly via Tesla FM in her program Flushing Toilets, a name that also identifies the experimental music platform she founded in 2020 in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. He also has a personal spoken word project called Emotional Pussy, as well as, together with Terminal (Miguel Salcedo) in Death Row Killer Groupie; and, together with Lauri Esala, Heavenly Abuse, both experimental projects.

As a performer, he has been part of several festivals in Europe, Latin America and Asia, and his work has been exhibited at LOOP Festival, Casa Asia, MACBA, Proyector Festival, CCCB, Food Cultura, among others.

He has worked for elBullifoundation and currently collaborates with the Open Up project, as part of the GEARAD artistic research group of the Department of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

However, between one thing and another, she is also and has been a telemarketer, pollster, content manager and eternal symbolic capital intern.

Tendrás que hacerlo de cualquier manera (La Máquina, 2022) is her first book and multidisciplinary project.

Santa Mònica Ràdio is a radio project that investigates the potential of sound and oral narrative linked to an arts centre. The programming is nourished both by the different resident artists' guilds and by external collaborating voices.

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