Audiotextual Source Code by María Salgado & Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca

Our memories are fragments of a living archive. We are constantly producing and reproducing texts. In fact, we are constituted by them. But we no longer feel the need to explain ourselves through the old narrative of that country we called Literature. Nor de we usually pay attention to the ocean of verbal and non-verbal sound that composes our experience of the world. Noise. Speech. Poetry freed from verse. Music liberated from melody. These are the forms of writing a type of reading that is only slightly slower than a visual one and equally consistent as a collective memory.

We are all contingent, but you are necessary. Rubén Martínez

Pict by Julio Albarrán (cc)

Free entry until all seats are filled. Spanish with simultaneous interpretation

Freedom is a very strange thing. Depending on where we situate it, it can be the greatest thing in the world or the worst. For instance, the freedom of historically oppressed people is not the same as market freedom. The same goes for power, in many ways. The power of a despotic sovereign has little to do with bringing creativity to power. But when we consider each of them carefully, both forms of power have been used to govern better. On the one hand, sovereign power governs by threatening to take the life of those who do not obey. On the other, socially distributed power lets us govern ourselves alone, within the pseudo-freedoms that capital grants us to live. They are forms of power with different strategies: forcing one to die or forcing one to live. Freedom and power are a trip.

#reclaimthecommons

#reclaimthecommons is a 3-day hackcamp for 40 activists, mediamakers, hackers and thinkers who are part of communities (mainly from Europe) working in the fields of the commons, alternative and socially engaged economies and the demand for public spaces as common goods. It will take place in Seville on the 16th, 17th and. 18th of April 2015.

From Gezi Park to London’s housing estates, attempts to directly reclaim space have captured the public imagination. These dramatic struggles to occupy disused buildings, demand public housing and defend green space publicly contest the power of developers, authoritarian governments and financial institutions. Perhaps this desire to work directly with space reflects a new spirit to make Europe anew, from the bottom up, one home, one street, one community at a time.

Municipal Recipes

Free entry until all seats are filled.

Municipal Recipes: A Conversation about Caring for Cities

30 min. VOS. Premiere

Municipal Recipes is a documentary about how we’ve gotten to this point, where citizens from new political subjectivities are experimenting with organisational models in order to manage institutions. The documentary features people linked to various social movements and the new municipal «confluence platforms» that are taking root in Spain. They include: Gala Pin, from the Mortgage Victims Platform (PAH) and the municipal candidacy Barcelona En Comú; Pablo Carmona, from the Fundación de los Comunes and Ahora Madrid; Marta Cruells, from Barcelona en Comú; Francisco Jurado, from Democracia 4.0 and Open Euribor; and Guillermo Zapata, from the Patio Maravillas social center and Ahora Madrid. As they share a meal together, they discuss the various questions and issues that frame the historical moment, trying to push forward a new world that is opening up.

Teatro Valle

Free entry until all seats are filled. English with simultaneous interpretation.

Teatro Valle Occupato: Culture as a common good

Virginia Benvenuti is a member of the assembly that manages the Teatro Valle Commons Foundation, which was founded in 2011 with the occupation of Rome’s oldest theatre, the Teatro del Valle, which was in danger of being privatised. It began as a project to provide a space in which to develop practices that were related to the common good. This gave way to the creation of an “institution for common goods”, whose slogan was: “Like the water, like the air, culture is ours”.