Tom谩s Espinosa & Red Comunitaria Trans: Social poetics*
Difficult times demand willful solutions. Solutions that are strategies. Strategies that fuel social interaction and clashes and are based on exchange and alternative ways of participating or living in a community. In other words: we want social poetics*. social poetics* that turn the public space into a place to protest, to act, to confront and for civil disobedience but also for dialogue and participation. We want social poetics* that destabilize existing structures 鈥� to rethink them 鈥� and call for action rather than preserve structures that exclude and limit, and that are therefore imprecise, unstable, and fragile. social poetics* with an *, to speak of the hidden, the indeterminate and the marginalized. And for us to deprive immediate recognition and to resist closed categorization and fixed identity. social poetics* that invite to imaginative militancy, in solidarity with the social environment; social poetics* as a representation of the real and the intimate.
The project social poetics* is dedicated to the collaboration between the artist Tom谩s Espinosa and the Red Comunitaria Trans, a community of sex workers* from Bogot谩 / Colombia, who develop performances, video works and sculptures in collective work processes that reflect the social and political struggle of the women*, as well as their protest against them. At the same time, the artistic work of Tom谩s Espinosa is at the center of the exhibition. The artist explores the interface between 鈥榩rivate鈥� and 鈥榩ublic鈥�, his works are in a constant state of flux between collectivity, intimacy and solitude.
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Difficult times demand willful solutions. Solutions that are strategies. Strategies that fuel social interaction and clashes and are based on exchange and alternative ways of participating or living in a community. In other words: we want social poetics*. social poetics* that turn the public space into a place to protest, to act, to confront and for civil disobedience but also for dialogue and participation. We want social poetics* that destabilize existing structures 鈥� to rethink them 鈥� and call for action rather than preserve structures that exclude and limit, and that are therefore imprecise, unstable, and fragile. social poetics* with an *, to speak of the hidden, the indeterminate and the marginalized. And for us to deprive immediate recognition and to resist closed categorization and fixed identity. social poetics* that invite to imaginative militancy, in solidarity with the social environment; social poetics* as a representation of the real and the intimate.
The project social poetics* is dedicated to the collaboration between the artist Tom谩s Espinosa and the Red Comunitaria Trans, a community of sex workers* from Bogot谩 / Colombia, who develop performances, video works and sculptures in collective work processes that reflect the social and political struggle of the women*, as well as their protest against them. At the same time, the artistic work of Tom谩s Espinosa is at the center of the exhibition. The artist explores the interface between 鈥榩rivate鈥� and 鈥榩ublic鈥�, his works are in a constant state of flux between collectivity, intimacy and solitude.
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