Cama del dolor compartido (Bed of shared pain) is a one-off collective performance developed in response to the need to share chronic pain in a public space, such as an art centre, in the context of an exhibition that addresses the theme of home.

It brings together five people, both physically and virtually, for a first-hand exploration of the experience of pain also being able to serve to bring us closer together and create collaborative and supportive networks.

It takes place in an H-shaped bed, formed by connecting six old sofas sourced from the centre.

In our western, capitalist, ableist, racist, LGTBIQphobic and colonialist culture, pain in general and, of course, chronic pain, is something private, intimate and shameful. Something to be concealed, the only positive being the inspiration it provides for non-sufferers, who must consider themselves fortunate and grateful.

We suppress and stigmatize alterities as a matter of course, that is, everything not “normal” and desirable (in other words having money, white, bipedal, hetero, oral, sighted, young, European, healthy, skinny).

Those in pain, the sick, those with disabilities, we are faced with uncertainty, social isolation and the medical and legal violence that ableism promotes, systematically negating our experiences, questioning our needs and denying our right to decide.

Living with chronic pain and showing it typically results in hearing comments, such as: “Does it still hurt?”, “Will it ever get better?”, “Wow, what a shame!”, “And being so young…”, “I admire you so much, I don't know how you do it…”, “Well, you look fine to me”, “Have you ever tried...?”.

The performance will take place in the open horizontal space and can be watched both in person and online. On many occasions, this is the only form of connection for many people with disabilities and virtual connections are also instrumental in promoting initiatives made by people with disabilities for people with disabilities.

With the aim of ensuring accessibility for all members of the disabled community, both formats will include a live subtitling and Catalan Sign Language (LSC) service.

Authors: Consol Llupià García, Silvia M. Limiñana, Tatiana Antoni Conesa as part of Hogar Diska, site-specific creation collective for the exhibition Dozing on the accidental provocation. And two guests either present in person or participating online.

HOGAR DISKA was formed as a result of a call posted on a Telegram support group for gay chronic pain sufferers (50 participants). The call, posted by Consol Llupià García, was answered by Tatiana Antoni Conesa, Silvia M. Limiñana, Eva Iovine and Usu and led to us forming a group of five individuals, organised into a core nucleus of two members, Tatiana and Consol, with more occasional participation from Silvia, Eva and Usu, who contribute in a variety of ways, including overseeing and developing the process and proposals, reading, etc.

"Coming together as a group as a result of a call to action has enabled our participation, hacking the fast-paced and exclusive ableist production (as well as artistic) timeframes and creating connections that have breached the inherent atomization of our society and enabled a group of people living with disabilities and chronic pain to join us and believe together”.

Consol Llupià García (Barcelona, 1983). “I come from a hodgepodge of ancestors: healers and scientists. My artistic practice is nourished by taking the question of contextual permeability to the extreme, bringing my artistic practice into a porous dialogue with the experiences that happen to me in my daily life, my direct networks of relationships: friends, family, non-human animals, my altered and chronically suffering body, the space I inhabit and connections with the strange. My latest works: 15% Barcelona Crea (2022), La Balena del Prat a El Prat/ Vibraera. La Capella, hangar.org and Unzip Arts Visuals (2018-2020). Private Views. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam La Habana, Institut R. Llul and Sala d'Art jove (2014-17), etc.".

Tatiana Antoni Conesa (Barcelona, 1985). “My artistic practice is fundamentally based on the intervention and creation of images and texts. Seeking to point out systemic violence and claiming one's own point of view as disca, autistic, non-binary and grieving.
“I do individual and group accompaniment with a multidisciplinary perspective that includes the systemic, the body and art. And I participate in various support groups and collective anti-disability care".

Silvia Maestre Limiñana (Agost, 1990). “In my work as an artist I reflect on the ways in which society continues to impose its binaristic, allosexual and ableist vision. My work is born as a response to my experience as a nobinary autistic person with an invisible illness in a society that constantly reinforces gender binarism, neurotypicality and ableism. My latest works have been: participation with the video Baños públicos, cotidianidad y género, in the exhibition "Pluridentitats. II Convocatòria Biennal d'Arts Visuals", at the MUA (Museu de la Universitat d'Alacant), 2021; exhibition of the fanzine Ser Enferma in the exhibition "Emergències 3", organised by Fem Art Mostra, Ca la dona, Barcelona, 2021; participation in the "Nit de l'ART" with the video ¿Quién Seguirá Aquí?, Altea, 2022".