Publication "No quiero ser un hotel"
La Escocesa, Barcelona.
La Escocesa, Barcelona. 17 a 20h
How to define this that we are doing? Which words represent our practice? How is possible that we can't find the certain word to define what we are doing during most of our days?
No quiero ser un hotel (Don't want to be a hotel) is an encounter about artistic residencies that materializes in a coral conversation through the voices of all the people that has put words to it.
This encounter centrilizes hospitality, relationships between the residents, the hosts' roles and what we call accompaniment. It proposes to question prestablised frames in residency programs and to trascend the idea of residency as a mere accomodation or work space, to think of it as a context crossed by bonds, conviviality relationships and building community.
It's a reflection about our work and experiencies in artistic residencies and about the relationship with the artists and the context. Both the publication and the encounter are the result of a shared process between hablarenarte, La Escocesa e Idensitat, and it has been growing through several meetings named desde este ahora in Fabra i Coats in July 2023, in the Monastery Immaculada Concepción (Loeches, Community of Madrid) in september 2023, in Cal Gras (Avinyo, Barcelona) in November 2023 and in Azala (Lasierra, Álava) in June 2024. +info here
No quiero ser un hotel is a publication edited and conceptualized by hablarenarte (Flavia Introzzi, Emma Brasó), La Escocesa (Alba Colomo, Clara Piazuelo), Idensitat (Roser Colomar, Irati Irulegi)
Desing and layout by Cristina Pastrana with printing by Marian Vélez in risography workshop in La Escocesa.
Paticipation of Ane Rodríguez Armendaiz, Idoia Zabaleta, Itxaso Corral Arrieta y Ona Bros.
Ona Bros approaches images from a political perspective, viewing them as catalysts for complex semiotic, technical, and material systems. Her practice is situated and embodied; she investigates through lived experience and relationality, within a queer way of being and a transfeminist sensibility. She works with photography, video, writing, and live arts, materials she relates to distant epistemic fields in search of narratives that fracture (perhaps briefly) the present. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona, a degree in Photography from the Polytechnic Foundation of Catalonia, and a Master’s degree in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona.
Itxaso Corral Arrieta is an artist whose practice spans the fields of the performing arts, performance, writing, publishing, and educational and artistic research contexts. Her work lies at the intersections of the performative, the pedagogical, and the experimental, exploring forms of embodied, sensory, and relational knowledge. She studied Journalism and Performing Arts in the Basque Country and furthered her studies in Film and Performance Studies at the University of Kent and at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She subsequently completed a Master’s degree in Performing Arts and Visual Culture (UCLM and Museo Reina Sofía) and the Independent Studies Program (PEI) at MACBA. She is currently conducting doctoral research she calls “Paranormal Doctoral Thesis.”
Idoia Zabaleta is a choreographer. She majored in ecosystems and population dynamics at the School of Biology. She studied contemporary dance and improvisation in the 1990s. Since 2000, she has been creating her own work, and since 2008, she has been developing and co-directing the Azala artist residency program, located in Lasierra, the village where she lives in southern Álava. Since 2019, she has been part of the editorial team for Borradores del futuro, a collection of fables that imagine the future based on concrete experiences. In 2023, the artists’ cooperative Tractora published Foku 2, a look at her artistic career. In 2024–2025, she was an artist-in-residence at Azkuna Zentroa.
Activity carried out within the framework of the Ministry of Culture’s public grant program for the creation, research, and production of artistic projects in residence.
