How to escape time. Marina González Guerreiro

Raúl Lorenzo, Sonia Tarazona, Ale Granero and Marina González Guerreiro

Marina González Guerreiro proposes a plural activity as part of her research in the Art and Context Programme at the IVAM. Although it is possible to sign up separately to each of the exercises, we recommend taking part in all three activities.

Ale, Sonia, Raúl and Marina suggest three writing exercises, three short trips to try and escape time. Understanding writing in its broadest sense, as a record or desire to record, we will distance ourselves from the linear, chronological, productivist and alienating time that reigns, to enable dynamics such as the pause, waiting, observation and digression to emerge. Without any tricks of escapism, off we go.

Tuesday 27th September, 18.30.

A question.

Raúl Lorenzo and Marina González Guerreiro

From the belief that a question can travel towards an answer like water towards thirst (Antropología del agua, Anne Carson), we propose a free walk through the mouth of the Carraixet ravine where each participant will take care of a question asked by another person, in the form of an invisible friend. Without falling into the urgency imposed on doubt by an immediate resolution, in this exercise on correspondence and interpretations, we will allow the question to show us its own pace.

Friday 30th September, 18.30.

Own seat. Writing from a logbook on an urban boat.

Sonia Tarazona and Marina González Guerreiro

Own seat. Writing from a logbook on an urban boat was born from the lack of space and time for oneself in cities, and outlines an exercise of automatic immersive writing on one of the public buses of Line C1 Centre Històric (Historic Quarter), starting from EMT bus stop 796 – IVAM. The activity is split into three parts: the collective reading of texts related with the topic and explanation of the activity; travel and writing from the logbook; anonymous reading from the logbook texts.

Friday 30th September, 18.30.

Observatory of the unexpected.

Ale Granero and Marina González Guerreiro

When we think about the fall of a lightning bolt, most people imagine a storm and we don’t expect it to fall on a clear day. However, it is possible that the unlikely could happen on that day. Side by side, we will build an observatory from which to expect the unexpected and think about everything that falls from the sky or is given to us as a matter of course. At the end of the activity, we will try to draw a map with our observations.