Videos based on two programs of TV, in which the guests were subject under aesthetic operations with the purpose of overcome their complexes and to raise their self-esteem.
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A strange Sheikh in a barely-glimpsed place: "Destiny is as wide as a hand and four fingers, the width of a grave. The man who owns 40 buses, what does he really have? The man who owns 4 houses, poor fellow! What does he have? A grave!...?" Video Serie: El Hamdulillah Tapes * Pirate Utopias & European Renegadoes.
UntitledOur society has been evolving towards a system based on commercialisation and globalisation, driven by competition and its dynamic of constant growth. We are nearing the limits of this growth in both natural (resource depletion and contamination) and social (injustice, inequalities, physical, psychic and moral poverty) terms, a situation which is generating conflicts on all levels, collective as well as individual... the system has reached a crisis point, a multidimensional crisis (social, economic and environmental) that puts the continuity of the current system in doubt. De-growth offers a theoretical base and a movement that brings together many different initiatives under the one umbrella, initiatives that suggest alternatives to the current system and aren’t based on constant and unlimited economic growth. It sets out to reencounter the multi-dimensional nature of human beings, to make us aware of the limits and scales of our environment, to regain control of our own decisions through autonomy and self-management as a society, to leave the dominant individualism behind and, at a broader level, to decrease production capacity and consumption, infrastructures... The initiators of the de-growth movements in Catalonia, Italy and France will present this introductory talk, offering three points of view that reflect the diversity of the movement.
Espacio del inmigrante is a self-managed space created by and for migrants. A space for gathering, reflection, and action. Drawing on “migrant" knowledge and putting forward their own racialised bodies, its members seek to generate new forms of resistance, empowerment and defense of migrant persons as political subjects.
Presentation after the screening of the film "The War Game" by Peter Watkins with Rafael Poch, journalist and writer specialized in international politics. The discussion was organized by Falconetti Peña and Simona Malatesta, as part of the research project "Art, war and Insubmissión".
Neither things nor feelings are in vain. A diurnal voyage towards what surpasses us.
A video essay on Oblivion with excerpts from: . The Mahabharata, Peter Brook, . Conversacion con Jean-Claude Carrière, Abu Ali, Toni Cots y Stefano Casella. . La Commune, Peter Watkins . Del Poder, Zaván . I do not call it rioting, I call it Insurrection, Anónimo en la red. . La Barcelona que no se ve, la Barcelona que se esconde. TEB y OVNI . Sembrando Sueños, Elio González . Er'hal, Ves-te'n. Diari de la Plaça Tahrir, Marc Almodóvar. . 27 de Maig del 2011. Plaça Catalunya. . Solutions locales pour un Désordre global, Coline Serrau
The last four years the city of Barcelona has implemented a model cornering those who are outside the triumphalist paradigm of modernity, Europeism and prosperity. The best example of this discourse is the district of 22 @. An area of the city built atop the old industrial neighborhood of Poble Nou, located on the northern edge of the city. It is in this space that we find the settlement. This is home of about 300 people of different ages and nationalities. There are sub-Saharan immigrants living here with or without papers, Romanian’s, South American’s, Maghreb’s and also Spanish. Many of them with a common history. A few years or months ago they had home and work. But with the crisis the work ended and they had to leave their homes. People went to the settlement, although many did not like the place, because its better than sleeping in the street. There is more security, there are chances of surviving with the collecting of junk and then selling it for recycling the metal, and also a sense of community. Junk has become the main income for the inhabitants living. In the settlement three bars have been opened, these supply, at reasonable prices, food for the community and a comforting coffee or beer at the end of the day. In the middle of all this struggle to keep breathing, in July 2012 things turned a little more dificult. Because of the complaint of the foundation “Maite Iglesias Baciana”, who owns the land where the settlement is and its main job is to send humanitarian aid to countries like Africa and Honduras, a police eviction was declared and scheduled for July 16 of that year. Not happy with this hypocrite behavior they also refused to negotiate with the lawyers that the Poblenou neighborhood residents had managed to find to defend the inhabitants of the settlement.
UntitledConversations about different aspects of dis_reality, with Pablo Beneito, Hakim Bey, Santiago Lopez Petit, John Zerzan. Recorded by Lewanne Jones, Fred Barney Taylor, Joel Pomeroy and Abu Ali.
The Observatory Archives invites Hakim Bey to reflect on this subject as a contribution to OVNI dis_Reality. Hakim Bey is the pseudonym of Peter Lamborn Wilson (EE. UU. October 1945 - May 2022), an American writer, essay writer and poet who describes himself as an “ontological anarchist” and a Sufi. His 1990 work TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone made him famous. As well as writing a series of essays on the traditions of Chinese secret societies (Tong), Bey introduced the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone based on his research into pirate utopias. Bey has also written about figures like Charles Fourier and Friedrich Nietzsche, and on the links between Sufism and ancient Celtic culture. Along with these authors and theories, Situationism has also been an important influence in Bey's texts, which could be considered as an updating of its ideas for the present.