En nuestra búsqueda de procesos de exploración innovadores, invitamos a artistas a participar de residencias artísticas en el Observatorio del Placer. Estas residencias están dedicadas a la investigación y la práctica, con un enfoque específico en diversos aspectos del amplio espectro de la sexualidad. + INFO convocatoria 2024
RESIDENCIAS ARTÍSTICAS PROGRAMADAS 2024
Cutting some branches for a temporary shelter por Látigo Colectivo (Roc Gottschalk y Nass Roca)
_ Residencia 30 de sept al 4 oct 2024
_ Cutting some branches for a temporary shelter VOLII
Ensamblaje instalativo 5 y 6 oct 19h
In this residency we will take up a performative cell and turn it into an immersive installation assembly with several stations through which you can circulate and experience fragments of the same investigation.
The original trigger for this composition was born as a consequence of the resonances that arise when the body is prepared for the amputation of a part of the body, as a surgical act for the supposed “gender reassignment.” + info
UNDISGUISED por André Uerba
_ Convocatoria abierta · Residencia 7 – 13 oct
_ Open Studio / Performance Sharing Sunday, October 13th
Is the first research for a new project and intertwines choreography and somatic practices. Within the frame of the one-week residency at Observatorio del Placer, my wish is to investigate and create a space for encounters and consensual connections to happen, while being creative, playful and engaging the physical, emotional and erotic body. “Undisguised“ takes gestures of intimacy and dispositives of support (giving & receiving) as an ethical and creative input, and attempts to formulate what are the rituals of gathering of the 21st century. + info
Normal (3ra edición) – convocatoria abierta
_ Residencia artística 11-16 de noviembre 2024
_ Instalación corporal _ 16 noviembre 19h
In this week-long residency, we invite a study group to explore accessing and exposing intimacy, acknowledging its inherently subjective nature.
Through a variety of rituals, physical and conversational exercises, we seek not only to explore our own interpretations of intimacy but also to understand how others experience it. By navigating these different perspectives, this residency seeks to challenge patriarchal norms and societal structures in the pursuit of genuine connection.
We invite all kinds of bodies and local artists to join our study group and to challenge the concept of NORMALAnd to imagine a practice that extends beyond the residency itself— Reimagining what NORMAL can be-- ultimately culminating in a body installation the 16th of Nov. + info
RESIDENCIAS 2024
ASS OPERA, singing with the power of erotics por Marja Christians
_ Residencia 9 – 13 de septiembre 2024
_ Canto lírico desde el ano y otres Sirenes del O – domingo 15 septiembre
Deseo transfeminista, erótica queer feminista es recuperando lo erótico suprimido como considered source of power and information within queer lives and sexuality. Lo erótico como poder (según Audre Lorde) reclama el sentimiento, lo pone en el centro y saca de ahí estrategias de libido contra hegemónicas that help us remember places of the body and pleasure that were denied or even prohibited to us. As a multidisciplinary dance creator she investigated anus singing and shared oceanic-erotic practices, inviting dissident peers. The Conversation, sound and song come through the anus: transfeminist and queer erotica and desire. + info
Bizarre snails por Matilde Flor Usinger e Íñigo Laudio
_ Residencia 15-19 de julio 2024
_ Performance _ 20 de julio 19h
Can prejudice condemn dissident bodies and identities? Can you desire what you don't see? What is the limit of the game? Do you know it? Do you think a look is enough to understand a person?
Matilde Flor Usinger & Íñigo Laudio have been exploring these questions for a week at Observatorio del Placer. We would be happy to invite you to a showing of our work. + info
GRADO CERO por Ornella Bodratto y Sofia Sasso
_ Residencia 15 – 19 de julio
_ Grado cero – Espacio inmersivo 19 julio
During the residency we will navigate the fantasy of desire as a species, we will seek to merge it through visual and sound devices, and we will create invented symbiotic fields, where it can coexist with other imaginary species. These desiring ecosystems, that arise from the experiments, will have as their center of action the stripping of human assemblages and the mechanisms of desire that we have learned so far. The research process will be open through a public and immersive activation that will be accessible and will contemplate all corporalities and types of mobility. We invite us to immerse ourselves collectively and sensitively in the waters of our desires and to dis-configure ourselves from the known desiring tissues... Welcome. + info
New Normal por Matilde Flor Usinger, Nanna Koppel and ZCA
_ Residencia 8 – 12 julio 2024
_ Instalación corporal INTRA(STING) _ sábado 13 Julio 20h
In this week-long residency, our focus lies on the exploration of accessing and exposing intimacy, acknowledging its inherently subjective nature. To grasp intimacy, a prerequisite is to maybe not having to define it? Through a diverse range of physical and conversational exercises, our aim is to not clarify what intimacy means to us and also to explore the unique definitions others hold. By navigating the intersections of these subjective perspectives, we intend to use these as tools to experiment with a performative approach to be one with the veil that intimacy may be. + info
Serie Bar-King por Joi Pineda
_ Residencia 1 – 5 julio 2024
_ Cabaret Chikazos _ viernes 5 Julio 20h
Bar-king is a performative series that It integrates two pieces that fluctuate between performance art and the cabaret or drag king show where masculinities are addressed. It is a series developed through two chain performances nominally presented through the title composed of the first three letters of the shows (Barrikadas y Barro) along with the suffix king and alludes to the Anglo-Saxon word barking (ladrido de perro). Bar-King appropriates some of the interpretations of the action of ladrar, understanding it as something that bothers or alerts, and at the same time a warning or tension. That is why all the pieces that will be produced throughout this series will be woven together through the uncomfortable and directing the gaze of the spectators towards the phenomenon of the failure of masculinity in order to remove the layers. subalterns that are in it. + info
Affective ecologies by Proyecto conspira (Lynx and Zafiro)
_ Residency 3 – June 7, 2024
_ Práctica colectiva 7 junio
In this residency we will investigate how to sensually conspire with plants and things to disrupt colonial common sense. Ignited by the plant studies of Natasha Myers (2021), we set out to explore vegetalization and eroticize the care of the living to conjure other possible worlds. We want to learn from the strategies of these beings who have billions of years more experience than us in terraforming habitable worlds. We invoke the cuir sexualities of other species and set ourselves the task of absorbing all types of fantasies through our tissues. We are going to alter our sensorium to open ourselves to new sensible worlds and test habitable worlds. We are seduced by thinking about and practicing non-reproductive, non-genital sex and the varied range of contrasexual practices that proliferate from these relationships. We will practice dirty and hot tenderness by interacting with earth, sand, water and plants in a friction of surfaces and flows. We feel, touch, talk to and grow plants, too, we are touched by them. + info
Cannibalism by KULSHEDRA and Zélie DP
_ Residencia 15 – 19 abril
_ Workshop April 18 at 6 p.m. + performance April 19 at 7 p.m.
Cannibalism is a term dating from Columbus time used to dehumanize indigeneous inhabitants from the lands Europeans came to colonize. This research proposes to reverse this white and western concept towards ourselves and interrogate our own whiteness through it. If cannibalism (as in the concrete act of eating human flesh) happened in many forms in Europe, we propose to look at this notion with a broader view. It could be understood as an ensemble of dehumanizing practices based on the pre-desire of the other’s flesh, these actions ending in annihilating and destroying the object of this desire. As we are white able-bodied afab performers, our research will focus on what we experienced. +info
Normal by Matilde Flor Usinger
_ Residence April 8-12, 2024
_ Call for work group 8-12 + Workshop 12 + performance on April 13
In this week-long residency, my focus lies on the exploration of accessing and exposing intimacy, acknowledging its inherently subjective nature. To grasp intimacy, a prerequisite is to define it. Through a diverse range of physical and conversational exercises, I aim to clarify what intimacy means to me and also to explore the unique definitions others hold. By navigating the intersections of these subjective perspectives, I intend to use these as tools to experiment with a performative approach to unveiling intimacy. + info
RESIDENCIAS 2023
Lo xenosensorial · anna natt
_ residency 3 – 8 Diciembre 23′
_ práctica 9 Diciembre
Durante la residencia, me interesa explorar el origen de nuestras atracciones y cómo expresamos nuestros deseos en un espacio sexual colectivo. Por qué queremos lo que queremos y qué pasaría si entráramos en un espacio de juego y no pensáramos en «qué deseo yo», sino en «qué desea el espacio». ¿Y si nuestro primer objetivo en un espacio de juego fuera crear belleza, fundirnos en una composición colectiva? ¿Podría ser igual de placentero saber que lo que estás haciendo está agradando a alguien visual, auditiva u olfativamente, sin saber necesariamente quién es ese alguien? ¿Y cómo podría esto desplazar nuestros centros de placer y reorganizar nuestras zonas erógenas?
put*s somatic*s
_ residency 25 – 31 Octubre 23′
_ práctica 1 – 4 Noviembre
La investigación de puts somatics tiene como eje el servicio sexual, y es la idea de servicio la que está siendo atendida. Existe una pregunta por los bordes de la(s) sexualidad(es) que puede servir como suelo donde reposar. ¿Cuáles son las posibles direccionalidades de un servicio? ¿Cuáles son las posibles entidades agenciales en un servicio? ¿Se puede estar al servicio de lo que emerge? ¿De las memorias del toque de su dedos en la hoja del helecho? ¿De la luz que roza el aire del espacio y tu cuerpo? ¿De nuestro recuerdo? ¿Del aire que sudan las hojas verdes del rincón? ¿Del calor de los focos rozando la textura del suelo? ¿Hay posibilidad de un deseo autopoiético?…
Los Ojitos de Dios · Proyecto de Caos F.
_ residency 10-15 Abril 23′
_ performance Domingo 14 Mayo 19-21h
Los ojitos de Dios es un formato de performance de contenido sexual explícito basado en la exploración en grupo (3 a 5 personas) de los gustos eróticos y fantasías más deseables y ocultas de cada voluntarix. Todo ello sucede gracias a las órdenes sonoras dadas por un Dios invisible y solo perceptibles por lxs participantes, quienes sin conocerse entre sí se encuentran en un mismo espacio escénico para tener un encuentro sexual orquestado.
Dios conoce los anhelos de cada criatura y lxs pone a jugar y operar en un teatro erótico despersonalizado y liberador que tiene como objetivo permitir a las criaturas proporcionar y proporcionarse placer de forma colectiva disfrutando del placer de «ser usadx».
* Todas las actividads y experiencias tienen lugar en nuestro espacio en el centro de Barcelona. Agenda Queer Barcelona