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5000 feminismos (2010) captures the political and organisational strength of feminism through the gathering held on 6 December 2009 to mark the 30th anniversary of the first Feminist Conferences in Granada, commemorated with a march through the city centre. Nearly five thousand feminists came together for two hours, as a batucada percussion troupe, the Cofradía del Mismísimo Coño, a performance by the Medeak collective and dozens of banners held aloft by thousands of people embodied the breadth of the feminist subject.

Cecilia Barriga has made numerous documentaries and television reports, while also working in fiction. Since the beginning of her career in 1982, she has documented the situation of women worldwide, feminist thought and activism, and the construction of individual and collective identities. She has also closely followed the development of civic movements such as Spain’s 15M, Occupy Wall Street in the United States and the student protests in Chile.

The video will be followed by a screening of audiovisual material from the Ca la Dona archive and a conversation between blanca arias and another volunteer from the Ca la Dona Documentation Centre. Reflecting on the way in which the street becomes a collectively beating heart during marches, the session will bring together a range of documentary materials that capture the heartbeat of feminist struggle in the public arena. United by a shared pulse that still leaves room for arrhythmia, the right to one’s own voice championed by feminists emerges across the decades as a call for polyphony and dissonance. What kind of body, then, can convey this song? How do we hold the rhythm while anticipating the syncopation?

Activity curated by HAMACA

Curated by blanca arias


Ca la Dona Documentation Centre

The Ca la Dona archive and library are a space for women, lesbians, trans people and non-binary individuals, pulsing with a desire to nurture, develop and share our genealogies. It currently holds around eighty archival collections thanks to the feminist generosity of many donors, and is sustained by more than twenty activist volunteers. They are responsible for preserving feminist memory (especially that linked to Catalonia) and for keeping it resonant through a network of alliances with different organisations, in honour of our shared past and our hopes for a common future.

https://centredoc.caladona.org


blanca arias

Artist-researcher, mediator and curator. Her practice is grounded in the realm of imagery, from which she conjures potential lesbian feminist gestures and materialities. She is a member of the collectives Bestiari Queer (with Víctor Ramírez Tur) and amor rumor (with edu rubio), both situated at the intersection of art, teaching and critical thought. She is also a volunteer at the Ca la Dona archive. Blandito blandito. ¿Qué le hacemos les feministas al arte? (ed. Cielo Santo) is her first book.

https://blanca-arias.cargo.site