_ Grupo de investigación 14-18 de abril
_ Artistic residency April 21-25
_ Body installation _ April 25
Open call for the 5th edition of Normal (April 2025)
_ Por Matilde Flor Usinger, Ruben R y
Josephine Marquard
(RESEARCH GROUP) April 14-18, 2025, Barcelona
NORMAL is an ongoing research on intimacy, each time approached through a different lens. For this edition, we invite you to explore SICK: sickness as a state, a process, a relation, a form of knowledge. How does sickness reconfigure our ways of being together? What forms of care, connection, and resistance emerge from it?
We are looking for different kinds of bodies, abilities, and ages to join this exploration. Difference is key. This call is not only for artists but for anyone whose experience, presence, and perspective can contribute to a collective reflection on sickness and intimacy. If you engage with performance, movement, installation, or simply have a lived experience that resonates with these themes, we would love to hear from you.
Participants in this research group will engage in discussions, movement practices, and shared reflections on sickness and intimacy. They will also have the option to continue into the second phase of the project, working towards a performance.
OPEN CALL: NORMAL - SICK (CREATION / INSTALLATION) April 21-25, 2025, Barcelona NORMAL – SICK (CREACIÓN / INSTALACIÓN) 21-25 de abril de 2025, Barcelona
This second open call is for those interested in shaping a final performance as part of NORMAL - SICK. NORMAL – SICK.
Over the course of five days, participants will collectively develop a performance exploring the themes of sickness, care, and intimacy.
The process will culminate in a public presentation on April 25, 2025.
Those who participated in the research group are invited to continue into this phase, but the call is also open to new participants who feel drawn to engaging in a creative process around these themes.
Let’s create a space where sickness is not just endured but shared, understood, and transformed.
You can register through this link
_ Instalación corporal _ 25 abril 19h
Collaboration Performance 20€
o Variable depending on your current situation. 10-30€
Consult information about variable collaboration
REGISTER THROUGH THIS LINK:
https://forms.gle/bpBh7TYNoKmE9irT7
*** We do not want anyone to be left out of the activities due to economic issues, if this is your case, let us know.
Likewise, Observatorio del Placer is a project in formation, if you want to support the space and the artists with a larger collaboration, it will also be welcome.
Matilde Flor Usinger
Matilde aims to embody academic intersectional feminism, challenging societal structures. She integrates knowledge into the body, exploring themes such as sexuality, feminism, world order, gender, and white body supremacy. Her focus extends to the exploration of intimacy, connecting with others on emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual levels. She believes that embracing vulnerability empowers deeper, authentic connections, enhancing personal growth and relationships.
https://www.instagram.com/matildeflor/
6ᵗʰ𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ
Fuses experimental nuances of electronic music, visuals, dance and performance through ever-mutating narratives to reimagine emancipatory immediate futures. Their audiovisual experimentation has been shown on stages and at international festivals such as CTM Berlin, Sónar Barcelona, Mutek Argentina, Cuenca Biennial, Quito Contemporary Art Center, among others.
https://www.instagram.com/sixth.faith
Rubén R
Rubén R is part of the OdP (Observatorio del Placer) team, as well as being a great researcher on the topic of failure. He also continues to study with great devotion the different ways of feeling gratitude in the face of the idea of loss and the sensation of being lost.
