Repairing the Earth Days
First plundering and then abandonment - what are we to do with territories that have suffered twice over from industrialisation?
With these conferences, which will take place on 24 May in La Térmica Cultural (Ponferrada) and on 25 May in Barruelo de Santullán, we will generate a space for meeting and debate on the meaning of reparation and the ways in which participatory art can be a reparative agent for damaged territories.
Programme 24/05 at La Térmica Cultural (Ponferrada):
Registration form here.
11:30 - 11:45 Opening ceremony
11:45 - 12:15 Reassembling knowledge to repair damage, by Fran Quiroga
12:15 - 12:45 The right to reparation as an imaginary of radical democracy, by Mario Pansera (U. Vigo)
12:45 - 13:15 Autoethnographies for collective reparation, by Belén Sola (U. León)
13:15 - 14:00 Injuries in the Territory. Restoration or Repair. Conversation Sonja Leboš, Susanne Burmester and Alfredo Escapa, representatives of Art Living Lab in Croatia, Germany and Spain.
Programme 25/05 in Barruelo de Santullán:
To attend, go to the meeting point, the CIM car park in Barruelo, at 11am.
Start time: 11:30
Visit to the CIM by Fernando Cuevas (CIM)
Route to the abandoned industrial area of Barruelo de Santullán accompanied by participants of Secuelas energéticas.
Performance by the Niñas Malditas Collective
Walking talk with José Luis Ruiz (ARPI)
Guided tour of the Barrueliense Stratotype
End time: 14:30
This conference is part of Art Living Lab to Repair the Land, a project that takes place in three European territories - Barruelo de Santullán (Palencia, Spain), Wietstock (Ludwigsfelde, Germany) and Šibenik (Šibenik-Knin, Croatia) - that have undergone a process of industrial reconversion whose legacy has altered the landscape and the ways of life of the local communities. Its aim is to contribute to the repair of these territories through participatory art processes.
