Las reglas del juego: conversa entre María Ruido i Brigitte Vasallo

Las reglas del juego (The rules of the game) is a talk-perfomance commissioned by Es Baluard (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Palma). It is a sequence piece between writer and activist Brigitte Vasallo and artist, filmmaker and researcher María Ruido on the loss of social class, institutional violence and class performativity.

The piece delves into the difficulties, conflicts and contradictions of class and gender that occur in the world of work in the artistic and cultural sphere and how, from a personal and intimate perspective, an attempt is made to respond to them. This talk is based on the idea that declassification is, furthermore, to assume a certain normativity that amputates the possibility of internal movement, that blinds and cancels something that belongs to you. 

The screening will be accompanied by a discussion between the audience and the thinkers Brigitte Vasallo and María Ruido.

By Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona

With the participation of María Ruido and Brigitte Vasallo

María Ruido is a visual artist, researcher and cultural producer. Since 1998 she has been developing interdisciplinary products on the imaginaries of labour in post-fordist capitalism and on the construction of memory and its relationship with narrative forms of history. She lives between Madrid and Barcelona, where she teaches at the University of Barcelona, and is involved in various studies on the politics of representation and its contextual relations.

Brigitte Vasallo is a writer and researcher, focusing on the critique of gender Islamophobia, research into the processes of alterisation, affective politics and cognitive capitalism. She has written the novel PornoBurka (Edicions Captives, 2013), the essays Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso (L'ovella vermella, 2018) and Lenguaje inclusivo, exclusión de género (Larousse, 2021), among others. She also collaborates regularly with media such as the newspaper ARA or Pikara Magazine, where she writes opinion articles.

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