Laboratori de calle: Festa Menor

The Laboratori de Calle is an instance of experimentation in public spaces that investigates, through artistic devices, the performativity of the city. The group's recent practice consists of creating, from materials found in the spaces, a temporary situation of occupation and permanence in the public space, where we try out performative procedures, sometimes more visible and sometimes less, in order to study the choreographic and political forces present in the everyday life of the streets.

In this activity we propose to change our usual focus of placing a table at a point in the city, in order to set it in an itinerant drift. Through the search or fiction of a birthday, we propose this exercise of celebration, displacing the static idea of celebration. In order to activate a call that allows an affective game in the different points of the route.

By the research group Laboratori de calle

Cecilia Vieira is a visual artist with a degree in Fine Arts. She works on proposals of artivism, object art and visual poetry through urban studies, language and artistic participation. With a social and poetic approach, she researches and intervenes in elements that question the uses we assign to things.

Élise Moreau is a dancer, choreographer and educator. In 2017 she co-founded the collective Iniciativa Sexual Femenina, with which she develops performative and pedagogical works with a libertarian, anti-academic and feminist perspective. She is part of Makrâl, a multidisciplinary group that seeks in situ ways to activate collective memory in rural territories. She currently develops individual works and collaborates with the artist Noela Covelo Velasco.

Lautaro Reyes is a choreographer who moves between the areas of creation and research. He works from the possible languages of the body and articulates movement as a mechanism that provokes binding impulses, both in the people who produce the choreographic and in the people who observe the choreographic form, and from this communication of imaginaries creates a common understanding.

Luana Raiter is a multidisciplinary artist, PhD in Theatre Studies and co-founder and member of the collective ERRO Grup. Her artistic and academic research is focused on participatory practices in the arts, with special interest in the intersection between art and activism, and institutionalisation and subversion, through a transdisciplinary view between urban anthropology, performative arts and philosophy.

Rafael Frazão is an artist and researcher, with a degree in film and a master's degree in visual arts. He works from the audiovisual language in different projects, approaching the fields of poetry, technological experimentation, performative arts and cinema of invention. In his recent career he has exhibited works in places such as MACBA, Santa Mònica, Casa Encendida, Ars Electronica and others.

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