Summary

Based upon a residency, its following exhibition, and a symposium, our intention has been to explore the concepts of ​​critical imagination and social creativity, understanding the relationship between them as a collective process embracing a variety of perspectives. Dissidence, disputes, violence, participation, construction of the commons, visibility/invisibility, care, social justice, are just a few of the concepts which have emerged during the residencies, and which will be explored and expanded upon in the exhibition and the symposium. 

The symposium will comprise talks by guest speakers, and presentations of projects selected by open call. It brings together various perspectives which problematise artistic and cultural practices connected to terms such as social justice, or the politics of fear instigated by contemporary neoliberalism on questions of identity, gender, race, migration, and the ecology of care. 

The symposium will recognise the challenges of our shared dependence as well as our differences; and will explore how to face the responsibility towards care, both to give and to receive it. The symposium is an invitation to envision a future based upon this shared vulnerability, which within a neoliberal system promoting social asymmetry, leads us to consider that equality, as an objective, should be replaced by interrelated concepts such as diversity, equity and social justice. 

The symposium brings together diverse voices. The morning session has been co-organised by Idensitat and the IMARTE research group of the University of Barcelona. The afternoon session has been organised by the curatorial panel which comprises the artists Xeito Fole, Andrea Corrales and iki yos piña narváez funes, with Idensitat (Irati Irulegi).