The Diversorium will feature the participation of six artists.

Brigitte Vasallo, OYIRUM, Jaume Girbau and Carla Caríssima, Vaginoplastia, Mariokissme and Osías Yanov complete the line-up.

Inaugurating the BAM festival, Our Barcelona project that claims “diversity” is a celebration open to all bodies, in order to make the party and enjoyment emerge as a public and political act. Participants Brigitte Vasallo, OYIRUM, Jaume Girbau and Carla Caríssima; and Vaginoplastia and Mariokissme; as well as the Argentinian artist, Osías Yanov., with a choreographic work that will connect the stage with the audience in the stalls. 

Tick, tick, there's barely a month to go before the “diversity festival” and the “meeting of bodies”.”, These are the concepts on which our Barcelona partnership is working, ‘Diversorium. Living arts and a space for coexistence’.’, The event will take place on 23 September from 21.00 to 22.30hrs, on the stage located on Barcelona's Rambla del Raval.

The event will kick off the festival's programme Barcelona Acció Musical (BAM), the most alternative branch of the city's main festival. The event will be choreographed by the Argentine visual artist, Osias Yanov, who will stage a multidisciplinary work that will combine celebration, installation, sculpture and video, with the pillars on which he has built his artistic career such as the theory queer, night party and community work.

The line-up of artists will be made up of:

Osias Yanov. Her multidisciplinary practice includes celebrations, parties, installations, sculptures and videos. His works explore the creation of conceptual and sensorial fields of resistance to the stereotypical control of subjectivity, and intersect with queer theories, night parties, rituals, group works and communions with nature. In 2015, his career includes his VI Session in Parliament, a large-scale project commissioned by MALBA, Buenos Aires, and his exhibition at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and at the Berlin Biennale in 2020.

Brigitte Vasallo. Spanish writer, researcher and teacher, and well-known anti-racist, feminist, LGTBI activist, whose work revolves around the intersectionality between racism and misogyny; and other forms of affective relationships, with an open defence of polyamory. She is the author of the novel ‘PornoBurka’, with a prologue by Juan Goytisolo and teaches on the ‘Master's Degree in Gender and Communication’ at the UAB. She has directed the I Festival de Cultura Txarnega in Barcelona, and has been international advisor to the Centre for Sociological Studies at the University of Coimbra. She is currently on tour with her first play ‘Trilogía de Naxos - Drama in three laments and a couple of acts’. 

OYIRUM. Anti-capacity activist, body-positive/neutral and LGBT feminist who spends her time studying and social networking part-time and being a proud full time cripple, in her own words. “ableism is the oppression we suffer in this environment because we are disabled. It's not that I was unlucky to be born into this body and have difficulties accessing education, decent healthcare, jobs... It wasn't bad luck, it's not: ‘oh poor you, you don't have the abilities to get to that point’. It's that society was ordered so that the normative people could get in and the rest of us were left out”.

Jaume Girbau and Carla Caríssima. Jaume He wanted to be a garbage collector, but realised in time that he would have a fixed, daily route. Monotony did not suit him. As everything was going smoothly, he dedicated himself to dance, which would give him long-lasting satisfaction. He is a recycler of experiences, an activist for diversity. He is a broadcaster and producer in ‘Barreres Fora’, a Radio Mollet programme that he has been leading for 23 years. In addition to participating as a model for photographs and audiovisuals, he has been a regular performer for 10 years at @liantlatrocadansa. 

For its part, Carla is a multifaceted artist, an art worker, a tireless seeker. She tries to be fair when it is necessary, generous when there is none and always dedicated. She takes life as a circus, exposing herself daily to tame and feed her puppies. She juggles between art and family. She teaches theatre, dance and playwriting. She has collaborated with ‘La Fura del Baus’, Leo Bassi, Fàtima Cotornal among others. For the last 7 years she has been dancing with ‘Liant la troca’, an integrated dance group. She is a resident artist at TPK, Centre for Contemporary Art and Thought.

Vaginoplasty. A tawdry electropunk band created in 2013 and formed from the beginning by Christina Ratas, Mar Mot, Toni Frankfurter and Rafa Marcos. They have spent more years singing their first album than the Sex Pistols. Vaginoplastia: Chenoa el octavo pasajero was created in a week of frenzy, thanks to Silvia Resorte's invitation to participate in a Porno Pogo Punk. At the end of 2021 they plan to release their second album. The passing of the years has given them maturity and swelling. They're still just as badass, but we don't compose with Audacity any more. 

Mariokissme. He is a non-binary visual artist who moves between different disciplines and formats such as video art, performance, music, art editions and audiovisual installations. In the last ten years he has developed his collective work with El Palomar, with which he released his latest musical work, the soundtrack of the film Schreber is a Woman (2021). In 2020, he presented his first album entitled ‘Fun After Die’. Months later he would release the bubbly mixtape ‘Divine Me’. For Mariokissme, music is one of the many outlets for shaping her work, creating queer networks and getting to know herself better. Pink lights, a lot of smoke and divine brilli brilli brillidanzarín.

See the photo gallery of the event here.