The Diversorium brings the festival of bodies and encounter to Sweden
At the event, which will be held on 24 March from 18.00 to 19.00hrs in Stockholm, mediator Veronica Valentini and commissioner, activist and academic Maria Oliver will reflect on the learnings from the project.
The Diversorium, our Barcelona-based organisation that seeks to create spaces for people with and without disabilities to meet, through dance, partying and enjoyment, is coming to Sweden through the initiative ‘A Movement to Hold’. Directed by curator Alba Folgado and thanks to the support of the Swedish Art Grants Committee, this Swedish event aims to “rethink collective creation and criticality” through an “open archive of artistic, immaterial, critical and non-hegemonic representations”, using different creative processes, including performances, interventions and presentations.
The event, to be held on Friday 24 March from 18.00 to 19.00hrs in Stockholm, will feature Concomitentes mediator and curator, Veronica Valentini, and comitente, member of the Office for Independent Living (OVI), activist and academic, María Oliver, who will reflect on the learnings of the Diversorium, which started in 2018 and today continues its journey to spread this universal need for encounter between bodies beyond their condition.
In the open conversation with Veronica and María, we will talk about the necessity and urgency of the desire that led them, together with the other comitente Antonio Centeno, to generate this common space to «dance with» the diverse affective and invisible communities of the city and «advance» beyond the discrimination that separates them. This common place for the enjoyment of all bodies is a step forward for social justice movements, but social equality is not yet far away.
Trajectory that continues its course
The Diversorium will be presented between 2020 and 2022 in different formats, such as in the Apolo Hall, the Primavera PRO Festival or the BAM Festival, as part of the Mercé festivities, in which he collaborated with the Argentinean artist, Osias Yanov. In addition, the project was selected to participate in the Escena Poblenou Festival/Centre Civic Can Felipa 2022 and at the Culturopolis, the conference organised by the Barcelona City Council on Cultural Rights.
