A dance and a prison cell; sex work and dissidences

The working group led by Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales, proposes a space for dialogue, resistance, and critical thinking around the intersection between sex work and affective, sexual, and gender dissidences. It aims to expand and alter the visual imaginaries related to sex work and prosex activism based upon aesthetic, politic, and historical alliances between sex work and sexual dissidences.

To this end, the following themes are proposed as a starting points to develop a joint project: How much of the Law of Social Danger and Rehabilitation is currently in use through prohibitionist and censorious policies against sexuality and its economies? How may we invoke history, images, law, labour precariety and shared repression? Which bodies/imaginaries coexist in between the world of sex for cash and the realities LGTBIQAP+ communities?* Conversely, knowing that persecuted sexual practices are a risky business, How do we include care at the core of the realities of sex work? How may we create a kind of visibility that does not put us in danger?

This working group space has been conceived as a Trans*temporal meeting, beyond the mere identity; a link between artists, prosex activists, sex workers, and sexual and gender dissidents.

* We included the P for prostitute as a starting point, embracing collective and silent struggle.

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NOSYMMETRIES
Open call, until 29.11.2023
IDENSITAT + La Capella Centre d’Art (Barcelona)
In the framework of CARE ECOLOGIES 2023-2025

NOSYMMETRIES is a research project which will open up a variety of artistic processes linked to issues which are pertinent to three spheres in which social inequality takes a number of forms. The open call will seek out three projects to collaborate with a guest working group previously invited on account of its career-path and its socio-political involvement in grassroots projects and issues which tackle inequality.

The working methodology consists of a collaborative process during a month in Barcelona between an artist or collective, and one of the working groups invited to take part in the project. Each working group has predefined a specific research theme: Impulsem – Inequality and Employability-; Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales – A dance and a prison cell; Sex work and dissidences – ; Florencia Brizuela and Ainhoa ​​Nadia Douhaibi – The structures of racism: capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. The artist or collective wishing to participate in this process will be selected through this open call, after submitting a proposal which must follow one of the predefined research fields.

NOSYMMETRIES will explore the concepts of critical imagination and social creativity from a variety of perspectives on social inequality. We understand the connection between critical imagination and social creativity as a collective process for gathering proposals which look beyond the visions of a permanent future state of collapse. In this case, the above concepts refer to activities resulting from a combination of responsibility, and individual and collective care as a way of contributing to a new collective imagination.

Open call info ➡ NOSYMMETRIES.