May 6th at 6.30 p.m.
in classroom B-0-2 of the Faculty of Fine Arts UPV
Second workshop Despacio en Espacio: Planting a cabbage, reciting alien love verses.
The story about the other, the alternate or the alien has historically been narrated from the cultural conceptions of monstrosity, directing the understanding of the extraterrestrial towards something to fear and destroy. From Alien the Eighth Passenger, through The Arrival, Extinction, Annihilation or The Expanse, its representation is always that of something unknown, dark, different and dangerous.
Our relationship with what may exist beyond the earth’s atmospheric borders has always been mediated by those warmongering ideas – inherited from the cold war – that replicated dynamics of defense and attack, giving rise to contexts of contamination and disregard for other ecosystems.
In this workshop we will initiate a rite of relationship with the alternate through the planting of a cabbage in Martian replicated land and we will write love poems to propose new ways of intertwining from consideration and affection.
Registration link here.
Organized and taught by Irene Sánchez.
Image by Sara Sanz Gallen.