The book 'Dancing Diversity' looks at the party as a space of celebration for all bodies.
The publication, which will include texts signed by the mediator-curator Veronica Valentini, the artist Osías Yanov, the activist Antonio Centeno and Brigitte Vasallo and Bob Pop, among others, will be available in your trusted bookshops.
How do we make and imagine this chosen scene to resonate as a space of celebration for all? amalgamation of beloved bodies What would be the ultimate act of transversal jouissance? These are some of the questions with which it is born in 2018. Diversorium, a participatory art project by Concomitentes guided by the mediator-curator Veronica Valentini; together with Antonio Centeno and María Oliver, from the Oficina de Vida Independiente (OVI) in Barcelona. This project sought to generate a festive space where people with and without functional diversity could coexist, enjoy, dance together, breaking down barriers with respect to functional diversity..
After four years on the road, The project, along with several Diversoriums held in Barcelona, a presentation at the MDT-Modern Dance Theatre in Stockholm, an invitation to the art centre ‘La ferme de Buissons’ in Paris and to be a participating project in the European biennial Manifesta 15, the project launches, together with the Bartlebooth publishers, the publication ‘Dancing Diversity’, in which several authors and members of the project give voice not only to their journey, but also to how to find in the coexistence of bodies another way of relating to each other and creating society. The publication will be available in bookshops throughout Spain and on the Bartlebooth website.
Several voices to create perspective
After a introduction, with the analysis and methodology of the project signed by the mediator, Vero Valentini; In the following chapters, various allies involved in the Diversorium give their views. Thus, the writer, Brigitte Vasallo, The pregonera of the Diversorium festival in the Rambla del Raval and of the publication, makes an ode to this place and its “strange” people, invoking a festival in which one can stop being a body and become flesh.
For its part, Rachele Borghi, queer geographer, The third chapter of the book analyses the norms dictated by public space, a space that is neither neutral nor universal, and whose relationship of oppression can only be transformed by using the body as a tool of resistance. In a third chapter, Aïda Camprubri, The Barcelona music and cultural sector's paladin of justice and godmother of the Diversorium of Sala Apolo and the BAM Festival,asks and investigates whether it is possible to make a safe space, The programme is based on a series of interviews with some of the protagonists of the nightlife scene.
Bob Pop writes a monologue interweaving an exercise in speculative fabulation about illness that blurs the sharpness of existing meanings and interpretations to reach/invent new dimensions within the physical appearance itself. Marie Bardet talks in another chapter about how supports produce ways of imprinting themselves on the surface of contact, about the politics of care and presence that produce horizons.
With Osias Yanov, the artist in charge of the choreography-direction of the Diversorium that was held in the Raval during the Mercè festivities, we talk about the axes, deployment and future of the complex performative and communal work. The commissioner of the Diversorium continues, Antonio Centeno, which explains how the gaze is also constructed and educated through artistic creation and fun and playful coexistence.
With Osias Yanov, the artist in charge of the choreography-direction of the Diversorium that was held in the Raval during the Mercè festivities, we talk about the axes, deployment and future of the complex performative and communal work. The commissioner of the Diversorium continues, Antonio Centeno, which explains how the gaze is also constructed and educated through artistic creation and fun and playful coexistence.
The publication also includes photographic documentation of Eva Carasol; the sketches of Osias Yanov; The drawings of Tobias Dirty; and some parts of the fanzine made by Marta de la Gente y Santiago Villanueva in dialogue with the Argentinean artist.
