Queer Malaise

Study Group

10 September - 20 October 2022
Admission

Free, until full capacity is reached, with prior registration by filling out the following form until 8 August

Place
Nouvel Building, Workshops and Protocol Room
Capacity
12 people
Duration

10, 17 and 24 September and 1, 8 and 15 October 2022: from 10am to 1pm.
20 October 2022: 7pm

Coordinated by
Izan Parra
Organised by
Museo Reina Sofía
Inside the framework of
Education programme developed with the sponsorship of the Banco Santander Foundation
Pepe Espaliú. Untitled. Series:  Ten Final Drawings, 1993. Museo Reina Sofía 
Pepe Espaliú. Untitled. Series: Ten Final Drawings, 1993. Museo Reina Sofía 

Violence pervades queer people, who constantly face the barriers of a social structure which hinders and constrains their subjectivity and free expression of affections and desires. In an era of widespread malaise, this vulnerability intensifies, often leading to a downward spiral of solitude, pathologisation and victimisation that is hard to evade.

Queer Malaise seeks to share and politicise these situations, which isolate people and single them out, through tools that include dialogue, narration, make-up, performance and the collective production of images. By way of a process of active recognition, this study group endeavours to revert the unempowering and isolating effects of malaise, collectively making that which affects us both visible and tangible.

These sessions, designed and coordinated by writer and social worker Izan Parra, and with the participation of Leire de Meer, Andrea Echazarreta, Jonathan Regalado and Álex Silleras, approach these forms of malaise through specific dynamics and different artistic practices, aiming to design different alliances, explore other affections and acknowledge common outlooks.

Education programme developed with the sponsorship of the  Santander Fundación


Programme

Saturday, 10 September 2022 – 10am / Nouvel Building, Workshops
What’s Happening to Me? Anti-oppressive Clinical Techniques

—With Jonathan Regalado, clinical social worker

Saturday, 17 September 2022 – 10am / Nouvel Building, Workshops 
Can We Pull Malaise out of the Hat? Reconceptualising Pain Through Theatre and Magic

—With Álex Silleras, actor, magician and Gestalt therapist

Saturday, 24 September 2022 – 10am / Nouvel Building, Workshops
What Can I Tell You? A Story. Fanzine Workshop

—With Andrea Echazarreta, a special education specialist, creator and founder of Gam Diskuir

Saturday, 1 October 2022 – 10am / Nouvel Building, Workshops
Do We Narrate Ourselves? Approaching Internal Experiences Through the Plastic Arts

—With Leire de Meer, artist

Saturday, 8 October 2022 – 11am / Nouvel Building, Protocol Room
Open Day

An activity open to the public, whereby the study group’s participants and coordinators discuss the unrest they feel as queer people and the benefits of being part of the group. Body immersion technique and contact by Izan Parra.

Saturday, 15 October 2022 – 10am / Nouvel Building, Workshops
Final Conclusions and Farewell