Next Friday, June 29, around 6:30 PM,
Sitesize
and some of us are inviting you to attend the presentation of
Aula a la Deriva 2012
at Can Batlló. During the presentation, there will be a small refreshment to better cope with the summer heat; representatives from the work contexts participating in
Com Col·lectivitzar la Cultura
(Sabadell),
CandeL’Hart
(
Open-roulotte
( Ripollet),
Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular
(Barcelona) and the
Jardí de l’Amistat
(Can Rull – Sabadell).
Aula a la deriva arose as an attempt to join forces between various people who were collaborating and usually collaborate: Cristian Año (
Sinapsis
), Oriol Fontdevila,
Javier Rodrigo
, Sitesize and us, with the more or less explicit objective of trying to get out of the precariousness in which we usually work in the field of culture. However, we have not known, or we have not been able, or we have not had time to transform that sum of powers into something solid, among other reasons, perhaps, because each one of us is actually too used to understanding work in culture in a certain way and, in short, changes are difficult.
In these circumstances, both Sitesize and us understood that Aula a la deriva had been, if nothing else, a pretext to get more involved in various processes and work contexts, to become more committed to certain groups; and we were convinced that in some cases this involvement had even exceeded our expectations, partly because, honoring the name of the platform, program, project or whatever Aula a la deriva is or may become, there had been unexpected drifts in those processes in which we were involved.
That is why Aula a la deriva 2012 does not have a closed program: as of today there are few programmed actions and there is not even a budget, so we will have to adjust the work and the provision of resources as the processes develop. Rather, there are lines of action, work networks, contexts, people with whom complicities have been generated, that is where we start from without knowing very well where we are going or what the path is.
But we are clear that we are interested in collaborating and participating in a critical and constructive way in processes in which new ways of producing and circulating culture are put into play; instituting practices insofar as they are based on spaces and forms of self-organization; ways of operating collectively that allow us more horizontal and fairer ways of providing and appropriating culture.