BAR Resident Project: How to imagine una musea?, Eva Rowson

Un programa pública experimental que intenta imaginar el museo desde una practica transfeminista.

‘Cómo imaginar una musea?’ takes place en several momentos during November 2017 in espacios diferentes across Barcelona siguiendo una logica anti-institucional. Este proyecto quiere imaginar una institución museística como una institución femenina, basada en multiple ejes: hospitality, work, collaboration, embodied knowledges, practice, economics, and administration. Esta posibilidad de ficción will help us to feel and think different ways to work and move in cultural institutions. We will imagine a nuevo institucional and how she, la musea, operates, cares, moves, sounds, opens…La musea abre solo cuando sus habitantes pueden visitarla, está absolutamente enmarañada, intrincada con la vida de sus visitantes. She adjusts to our movements and our lives. The programme of la museatakes place in several espacios diferentes, porque musea es un museo entendido como un programa público y no como un espacio físico. She moves to where we need her to be. She has a structure but she doesn’t bend to expectation. She invites you all

La musea: How does she keep it going
Sunday, November 12th 11a.m – 2:00 p.m, Espai nyamnyam

Co-hosted by Eva Rowson, nyamnyam and Priscila Clementti
An introduction to fermentación and ‘The Second Seasonal Political Palette’, un libro de cocina and document of the Bloodroot Collective, a self-sustaining feminist restaurant (1970-present, USA). Te invitamos to ferment, cook, and read with us para compartir prácticas y estrategias for keeping the collectivity, energies and economics in our work going. With thanks to Andrea Francke and Kim Dhillon, and to Bloodroot Collective, for sharing ‘The Second Seasonal Political Palette’.

La musea: How does she sound and feel and move?
Thursday, November 23rd 6.30p.m – 9.00 p.m, Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Co-hosted by Ariadna Guiteras, Eva Rowson, Jordi Ferreiro, nyamnyam, Priscila Clementti and Sonia Fernández Pan
“You have one room in your house exclusively owned by men. The room is your own: How are you going to furnish it? How are you going to decorate it? With whom are you going to share it and upon what terms?” – Virginia Woolf, ‘Professions for Women’ (1931), quoted in Céline Condorelli, ‘The Company She Keeps’ (2014). Gathering references from Céline Condorelli, Virginia Woolf, Ursula K. Le Guin, astrology, and fermentations from la musea’s previous event, we invite you to join us to re-arrange and set the terms – and the furniture – of the museum in a collective imagining of la musea, inside il museo.

La musea: She said ‘in a cloud of cigarette smoke, the workers are talking about love’
Tuesday, November 28th 8:00 p.m- 11:00 p.m, Carrer del pou de la figuera 16 baixos, Barcelona

Co-hosted by Adrian Schindler, Caterina Almirall, Eulàlia Rovira, Eva Rowson, Gianmaria Andreetta and Yvonne Carmichael
In this space, which is still forming, we’ll discuss the structures we have the possibility to build, the hospitality we want to practice – and how to shake an espresso martini. The evening begins with a screening of ‘School Without End’ by Adriana Monti (1983), which documents the ‘150 Hours Courses’ – an educational experiment in Italy in the 1970s. The courses were not intended to improve productivity at work, but to allow for personal and collective growth. For the women attending, the course also provided an important ‘room of their own’ in which to share their experiences with work, emigration and discrimination. The film is shown with permission from Cinenova, a non-profit organisation dedicated to distributing feminist films and videos: www.cinenova.org. It is in Italian, with English subtitles.

This public programme will be mostly led in English, but we will help each other to translate and shift between English and Spanish. Events are open to everyone but places are limited so it’s important to let us know you are coming. To join in one or all of the events, please enviar un email to Eva: eva.rowson@googlemail.com