Unlearning – Experimental Practices for Collective Creation

Poetics and Politics of the Everyday
A brief introduction to theatrical practices

Theatre has always been a space for representation, re-signification, and transformation of reality. We propose an exploration of various games, exercises, and methodologies that enable an experience of a collective creation process. A brief introduction will also be given to the Forum Theatre technique, part of the Theatre of the Oppressed arsenal created by Augusto Boal. This technique invites reflection, discussion, and action on everyday issues through their theatrical representation, enabling the rehearsal of alternatives to those oppressions. These creative processes activate ethical, aesthetic, and political engagement as preparation for real-life action.

Soundscapes

This module is built around exercises in active listening and sonic explorations using the voice and various materials.
Through a sound journey guided by prompts that trigger imagination and the transposition of external and internal, real and imagined sounds, we will experiment with ways of recording sound narratives. These processes will serve to explore tools for collective composition and improvisation, adaptable to any group, with or without musical experience.

Ecocentrism in Collective Artistic Practices
Power and control over environmental elements or the deconstruction of power relations

Drawing on a multiplicity of collective practices and experiences, we address the duality of Power and Control as a field of artistic exploration and reflection. The act of walking—referenced through psychogeography and urban geography—will serve as a tool for generating active listening. The refusal of mechanization as a process for deconstructing power relations, and the regeneration of sensory relationships that promote horizontality and reciprocity, are some of the key intentions to be addressed in this module.

Politics of Care
Devices for listening, research, and experimentation

Taking the notion of care as a thread that weaves through and connects multiple fields of knowledge, we will activate connections between participants by creating moments of pause, suspension, and experimentation. Through interaction with objects and sensory devices, we will seek to expand perceptions, tools, and possibilities for observing, listening, investigating, and engaging with the other. The central goal of this encounter is to empower care as both method and investigative experience, with the potential to trigger new collaborative, aesthetic, and political processes.

Collective Body in Public Space

This module explores concepts of questioning and reclaiming public space—not only in its material form but also as a construct shaped by flows, routines of everyday life, social interactions, and encounters with the unknown. Considering public space as a constant process of transformation and regeneration, how can we create creative disruptions, poetic interruptions, and moments of pause, breathing, and attentive observation of its DNA? Through our own bodies, we will establish critical and creative dialogues with human and more-than-human dynamics present in public space, intervening in this space of belonging and proposing new ways of being, coexisting, and interacting.