Carn Viva: Slide Finder

Neural regulation is largely determined by how we breathe and affects the globality of our nervous system, which is not only individual but also collective. This workshop is a proposal for a visceral exploration of the route of the vagus nerve. From the mouth to some organs of the thorax, abdomen and pelvis. The body as a place of listening, collision and sliding.

Session led by Mar Medina (special guest): Workshop on polyvagal theory and the collective nervous system.

Organised by:
Santa Mònica

Produced by:
Resident artists of the Mediació area

Mar Medina (Barcelona, 1976).
While graduating in art history from the University of Barcelona, she trained as a dancer in different European cities, at Movement Research in New York and with Anne Bogart's SITI Company. Her wider interest in the body in movement later led her to study Alexander Technique and to become interested in a somatic approach to the creative field.

Every Tuesday in June at 11am in the exhibition spaces of Santa Mònica we open Carn Viva for all those who want to connect with matter, flesh and breath. 

In these sessions we will establish, through the body, a dialogue with the exhibition The irruption on the complex circumstances in which we live after the disruption caused by the pandemic: how do we connect with our bodies after the social distancing? How do we breathe in the midst of asphyxia? How do we configure spaces for the somatic, the sensory, the joyful in the face of the colonising expansion of technocapitalism?

A somatic laboratory. A caretaker of the fascia. A moment of deep listening. A decentraliser of logocentrism.

Carn viva is born as an initiative of the Mediación guild, as part of the actions of a device/space/zone of collective learning to take care of our mental health and to meet our senses.