I am not washing my hands

An experience that unsettles, engages, transforms, and leaves a mark

Ramon Guimarães
Activity
08 November from 19h to 20h | Performance | Lecture room
Registration

Activity as part of ARTefACTe5 (Performing Curation) with prior registration required (Coming soon)

Language: Catalan, Spanish and English

Signing the participation and image rights consent form is mandatory.

An invitation to an experience you can't just observe from the outside.


I’M NOT WASHING MY HANDS is not a piece to be observed. There are rituals that cannot be watched — only lived. There are actions that leave a mark.   It is an immersive, intimate, and unrepeatable experience that demands presence and willingness. We call on those ready to cross the line between spectator and participant. A blind journey — both literal and symbolic — will lead you to a collective gesture that does not judge, but reveals.
This is not about washing your hands. Here, the body steps in.
And the trace… remains.
 

A guided experience in which participants are invited to take part in an intimate ritual that challenges passivity and brings the body into a symbolic act of collective responsibility.

Relevant information:

  • The experience may last up to 1 hour.
  • Attendance for this experience is limited to 48 people and requires registration, which is subject to acceptance of the participation and attendance rules. The event will be fully recorded, and granting image rights is required.


This year, ARTefACTe5 presents two performance artists at Santa Mònica.

On the one hand, once again, ARTefACTe features the performance artist selected within the framework of the Performing Curation 2024 assembly. The artist chosen at the last assembly is Ramon Guimarães, a performer active since the 1990s and a protoqueer artist of his generation.

The second artist is the French performer SKALL, a long-standing creator in his country, curated by the performance art centre Le Générateur, located in a former

cinema on the outskirts of Paris’s 13th district, in Gentilly. As part of the RELÉ programme of the event.

  • 5:00 p.m. Presentation of ARTefACTe5 and Le Générateur
  • 5:45 p.m. Libellule rouge. SKALL
  • 7:00 p.m. I am not washing my hands. Ramon Guimarães

Activity promoted by ARTefACTe5 (Performing Curation)

Ramon Guimarães (Barcelona, 1968), a multidisciplinary artist with an extensive career and varied performance production, and in video art and photography, with his actions invites the audience to co-create new stories and break the imposed limits, opening spaces for shared reflection.
Guimarães understands art as: “a situated and collective practice, capable of awakening consciousnesses and opening cracks in the established order. I work from dissidence, corporeality and critical pedagogy to imagine other possible worlds. Everything that seems stable, can cease to be so”.

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