Repairing the Earth Sessions
First the plundering and then the abandonment – what do we do with the territories that have suffered twice from industrialization?
With these sessions, which will take place on May 24th at La Térmica Cultural (Ponferrada) and on May 25th in Barruelo de Santullán, we will generate a space for meeting and debate on the meaning of reparation and the ways in which participatory art can be a reparative agent for damaged territories.
Program 24/05 at La Térmica Cultural (Ponferrada):
Registration form here.
11:30 - 11:45 Inauguration
11:45 - 12:15 Reassembling knowledge to repair damage, by Fran Quiroga
12:15 - 12:45 The right to repair as an imaginary of radical democracy, by Mario Pansera (U. Vigo)
12:45 - 13:15 Autoethnographies for collective repair, by Belén Sola (U. León)
13:15 - 14:00 Wounds in the Territory. Restoration or Reparation. Conversation Sonja Leboš, Susanne Burmester and Alfredo Escapa, representatives of Art Living Lab in Croatia, Germany and Spain.
Program 25/05 in Barruelo de Santullán:
To attend go to the meeting point, the parking lot of the CIM in Barruelo, at 11h.
Starting time: 11:30am
Visit to the CIM by Fernando Cuevas (CIM)
Route to the abandoned industrial area of Barruelo de Santullán accompanied by participants of Energy Aftermath
Performance by Colectivo Niñas Malditas
Charla caminada with José Luis Ruiz (ARPI)Guided route of the Estratotipo Barrueliense
Ending time: 2:30pm
These sessions are part of Art Living Lab to Repair the Land, a project that is being developed in three European territories - Barruelo de Santullán (Palencia, Spain), Wietstock (Ludwigsfelde, Germany) and Šibenik (Šibenik-Knin, Croatia) - that have suffered a process of industrial reconversion whose legacy has altered the landscape and ways of life of the local communities. Its aim is to contribute to the repair of these territories through participatory art processes.