The citizen laboratory MORTALES (LIMINAL) wants to explore (with healing and humour) the attitudes and different ways of facing old age, the end-of-life process, accompaniment, death and mourning from the community.

The group will meet over five sessions to collectively explore various themes related to death.

The sessions are designed in a workshop format, where different themes will be proposed to be explored, in a group and individual way, through play, co-creation, conversation and reflection. No previous experience is necessary, just curiosity and a desire to share experiences.

The sessions will include dynamics, proposals and contributions from:

Maddalen Azkarate (palliative care nurse), Montse Cano (medium), Aura Ferrer (palliative care nurse), Albert Potrony (artist), Júlia Sánchez Cid (death activist and member of Som Provisionals) and Roser Sanjuan (cultural manager specialising in participatory processes).

Once the sessions are over, the materials generated by all of them will be turned into a card game that, in a playful way and in different spheres, will help to generate conversations about death.

Tuesday 21 May, from 5.30 pm to 8 pm

Ageing as a space of transition.

Tuesday 28th May, from 5.30 pm to 8 pm

The end-of-life process and cures: how to accompany?

Tuesday 4 June, from 5:30 pm to 8 pm

Death, preparing to die. Can we imagine new rituals to say goodbye and celebrate our dead?

Tuesday 11 June, from 5:30 pm to 8 pm 

Mourning as transit. Experiences of mourning.

Talking to the dead.

Tuesday 18 June, from 5:30 pm to 8 pm

Spaces for remembrance and memory. Can we imagine, in community, new public spaces for remembrance?

Review of the materials generated and first selection of materials to form part of a compilation published in card game format.

Thematic sessions:

These themes may change as the sessions progress and depending on the interests of the group.

It is recommended to participate in a minimum of 4 sessions, but we understand that not everyone has the availability to do so.

Links of interest:

Albert Potrony

La Bona Mort - La Panera

https://www.poliedrica.cat/mortals-morir-queer/

With the participation of Maddalen Azkarate (palliative care nurse), Montse Cano (medium), Aura Ferrer (palliative care nurse), Albert Potrony (artist), Júlia Sánchez Cid (death activist and member of Som Provisionals) i Roser Sanjuan (cultural manager specialising in participatory processes).

MORTALS (Liminal) is promoted by the artist Albert Poltrony and Roser Sanjuan, cultural manager and artistic mediator specialising in participatory and social art. The project has been developed from different art institutions such as La Panera in Lérida and the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca, in collaboration with social entities, educational institutions and activist groups.

The artist Albert Poltrony was born in Barcelona but, since the 1990s, he has developed a career in London in artistic projects based on audiovisual language and installation, at the same time as carrying out community and participatory projects, largely based on play, such as Equal Play (BALTIC, Gateshead, 2021-22), A 24-Hour Truce (Arnolfini, Bristol, 2019), Play things (V&A's Museum of Childhood, London, 2018), Play as radical practice (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2017) or Mortals (2020-2024), La Panera, Lérida, CAC Palma, Fundación Miró, Palma, BCN CREA, Barcelona, ACVIC, Vic and M/A/C, Mataró.

Roser Sanjuan is responsible for public programmes at La Panera Art Centre in Lérida, designs and coordinates collaborative artistic projects, and is a specialist in health contexts and groups in vulnerable situations. She designs resources on artistic and media education in artistic and collective projects. She has curated exhibitions and written about education and mediation for academic articles and other literature. She teaches as a collaborator in masters and higher education degrees for several universities. She is co-creator with Albert Poltrony of the project Mortals (2020-2024).

Language: catalan / spanish