La scandalosa forza

Transdisciplinary creation laboratory where we will work on the idea of performing queer files. The laboratory will be a space for dialogue on the queer history of the Las Ramblas area (yesterday, today and tomorrow) and for performative experimentation on photographs of Cal Sagristà, an iconic bar from the 1930s located on El Cid street. Based on these proposals, procedures of collective body composition will be shared, such as the repetition of poses, the projection of photographs on the static and moving body, re-enactment and the creation of apocryphal documents.

By working on the recovery and recreation of archives of queer history of the Ramblas environment and exercises that promote the blurring of the boundaries between so-called still-arts and live-arts, we will seek to create "temporal complications", shuffling binary concepts such as past-future, presence-absence, life-death.

The laboratory will be facilitated by André Felipe and other artists from the Utopia Rambles collective and is intended for people with or without performance experience. As a conclusion, those interested will be able to participate in a public opening of the laboratory that will take place in front of the façade where the Cal Sagristà bar used to be, linked to the activity La forza scandalosa dei Crápula.

An initiative by Utopia Rambles 

André Felipe works on interdisciplinary projects between theatre, performance and literature. His most recent projects are based on the idea of latinofuturism, a speculative concept inspired by practices of temporal complication and the imagination of (im)possible futures. From this perspective, he has created works in collaboration with other artists, such as the installation Museo de la Extinción del Hombre Contemporáneo (MEHC, 2022) and the theatrical triptych Ensayos para el fin del mundo (A ursa de araque, 2018).