Descansa. II Jornadas para profesorado
Let’s let slowness be our host.
Let’s lie down on the ground, like cows, who gather reclining to graze, slowly ruminating on their long meals. It’s not easy to turn grass into nourishment, to make the most of the bare minimum.
Lying on the grass, we’ll begin to tell stories and sing to one another. With our bodies reclined, a reclined song. Perhaps a murmur will emerge, a warble, a rooster’s crow. Perhaps a “down with work,” as Eddi would say.
Let’s abandon the bipedal form, the “correct” human posture; let’s rest our hooves on the ground, clatter them, and open a window in the museum to let the air flow. Let the deer slip in. No matter how saturated with sweat, smoke, or weight it may be, that will be our breeze.
We’ve been carrying the entire course on our backs, and in this June overtime, they still want us to line up, to take the civil service exam. We’re not here to oppose: we’re here to let ourselves be swept away, to embrace passivity, like the wind filling the cavity of a crack.ç
Lucre tells us that when you meet someone, you start to wonder how they sleep. How will this friend, this lover, rest? What determines the teacher’s rest? My rest, yours, ours? What kinds of fatigue? Have you ever wondered how animals sleep? And what about the rest of the paintings?
Descansa aims to be—and to remain—a space for collective rest. For the politicization of exhaustion. To explore the possibilities of doing nothing.
The hermeneuticist loves mystery. Perhaps we need to learn to look askance.
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To massage this time together, we’ll be joined by Eddi Circa and Lucrecia Masson, and will feature exhibitions by photographers José Guerrero and Felipe Romero Beltrán.
Sponsored by Fundación MAPFRE and hablarenarte, Descansa: Workshops for Educators is conceived as a space for rest, reflection, and enjoyment at the intersection of art and education. The workshops draw on the three-year journey of Palma. Grupo de imaginación educativa, a think tank for teachers, mediators, and artists.
Descansa will take place at Fundación MAPFRE (Sala Recoletos – Paseo Recoletos, 23):
- Wednesday, June 25 (5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
- Thursday, June 26 (11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
The workshop is free, and lunch will be provided on Thursday, June 26. Although attending both sessions is recommended, partial registration is allowed.
Registration: by email, writing to Eva Garrido del Saz: eva@hablarenarte.com
“Descansa” is a series of workshops facilitated by Carlos Almela and Eva Garrido del Saz (hablarenarte) and Rocío Herrero Riquelme (Fundación MAPFRE).
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Biographies
Eddi Circa. Composer, producer, and guitarist. Born in Madrid in 1996. She holds a degree in physics, but fortunately balances this with her strong inclination toward literature and philosophy. Since her early days in music, she has been part of Spain’s countercultural and independent music scene. In 2020, she independently released her first EP, PASAR X EL DUTY FREE, featuring eight songs that offer a Proustian exploration of themes such as love, friendship, ideology, and science. In September 2023, while finishing her doctoral thesis in physics at the University of Alcalá, she released her first LP, EN EL BOSQUE UN CLARO, an album brimming with playfulness, joy, and philosophy set to delicate, fresh sounds, composed under the influence of María Zambrano’s philosophy and an entire philosophical and literary lineage of lesbians and women that Eddi strives to bring to life. In March 2024, the publishing house Vizca released a songbook containing all the lyrics to the songs by Eddi Circa and her sister raxet1: CIERVA IMPERIO PERREO, which is an ode to queer utopias.
Lucrecia Masson Córdoba. Committed to impurity, she moves between the fields of art and philosophy. Her main areas of inquiry are bodies, animalities, and non-human entities, as well as sexual and bodily dissidences, from an anti-colonial perspective. She works in various media, experimenting primarily with writing and performance. In theory, she is interested in the imagination and stubbornly believes that one cannot think without the body. She is a member of the Ayllu Collective and has been conducting research with ruminants for years.
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Photo credit: Brecha #08, 2024. Part of the Brechas Triptych #07, #08, #05, 2024. Courtesy of Galería Alarcón Criado. © José Guerrero, VEGAP, Madrid, 2025.
