Collective meteorologies

Collective meteorologies is a proposal for an intimate process of viscous porosity, a collective re-articulation, a search for relational space to accommodate us. We would like to take the expanded framework of artistic research as a careful and courageous space in which to reflect on our practices of participating in a group, of what conditions we want to sustain and generate, and in what way. Of the implications and intersections of social neo-Darwinism and evolution by competition, of power and role management, as well as of imaginaries that decolonise the paradigm of the individual and the collective.

Members:
Sonia Villar
Marian Madeleine Perez Jimenez
Mandi Domingo Llaràs

Sonia Villar https://cuaj.org
With a tendency to pay attention to transformations and to believe that art and science can be the same thing. I engage with the inevitability of eating, fermenting, dying and relating, through processes and situations where the continuum of non-linear relationships between the environment, organisms and atmospheric conditions materialise. Artistic research resident at La Escocesa (2021-), I have fluctuated in the composition of the organisms DU-DA (2019-21), the mycological network eemeemee (2020-22), the gastronomy guild of Santa Mònica (2021-23) and the group cor-pus (2020-2023). I have developed and shown projects and situations in HAC_R Creativo (Zaragoza), Social Muscle Club Fest (Berlin), Kunstverein München (Munich), EINA (Zaragoza), HB55 - Räume der Kunst (Berlin), Abteilung für Alles Andere (Berlin), Fabra i Coats (Barcelona), Sala d'Art Jove (Barcelona), Hangar (Barcelona), Graner (Barcelona), MACBA (Barcelona), CCCB (Barcelona), ACVIC (Vic), Santa Mónica (Barcelona) and Castell de Montjuïc (Barcelona). Currently, I am training in Group Facilitation with Col-lectiu Posidònia (IIFACe) and I am part of Vidalia, an intentional community based on cooperation, connection and transformation in Berguedá.

Marian Madeleine Perez Jimenez
Committed to community and collective work, militant of anti-racist decolonial feminism, and committed for 12 years to the Social and Solidarity economy. I have participated in several events on behalf of Cecosesola, such as the first International Exchange of Collective Experiences with the network of German Cooperatives Comunja (2017, Germany) and the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies (2019, Barcelona). I have experience in the administrative area, the coordination of production, the management of an organic coffee farm, the organisation of events with a gender perspective and in the area of education, strengthening and promoting training processes within the organisation as well as film forums aimed at children in the community. For the last year I have been part of the Can Masdeu Occupied Social Centre where I am part of the organisation of events, I accompany the management of community gardens and also administrative commissions within the collective project.

Mandi Domingo Llaràs
Intentional communities, group processes and their transformations are my passion. I like to create spaces for groups to meet, to see how their processes ferment and how suddenly everything happens as it was not foreseen. Group facilitation has been with me for a long time through different trainings (El camí de l'Elder and IFACE) and process work (Fil a l'agulla). I have worked in several intentional communities such as Can Piella (Montacada i Reixac), Calafou (Vallbona d'Anoia), la Ruda (Manresa), Cal Cases (Santa Maria d'Oló), La Pallejana (Sant Antoni de Vilamajor) and I am currently participating in Can Parera de Canyes, a cooperative and rural intentional community in Baix Montseny.