DIVERSORIUM. Live arts and a space for coexistence Citizen-commissioned project
06/01/2020
30/06/2021
La Sala 3 Apolo (28th February, 21st March, 24th Abril)+ Fiestas populares Poble Nou/Can Felipa Civic Centre (22nd May)
Barcelona (SP)
Since 2018 E.M.M.A. and Veronica Valentiniare respectively one of the art organisations and one of the mediators in charge to develop in Spain Concomitentes (Nouveaux Commanditaires/New Patrons) Art Citizen program supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (Madrid).
☞ Current citizen project developed for Concomitentes is DIVERSORIUM: a communal and party space in which to come together and celebrate human diversity and difference and “move” the discriminations that separate us. A desire that is also a necessity, because despite advances we are still nowhere near social equality.
Taking into account the important audiovisual projects linked to functional diversity that have already been produced by the two commissioners Maria Oliver and Antonio Centeno together with OVI-Oficina de Vida Independiente members, the first part of this Concomitancia aims to explore the cultural and social meaning of difference by developing new forms of cooperation, interaction, and connection between the people who make up society.
But how can we accept non-normative bodies, overcoming the punitive gaze that only regards “healthy” and “beautiful” bodies? What can we do to stop the inquisitorial mechanisms and interact through closeness? How can we deal with prejudices rather than remaining trapped in them? Where could these transformations take place?
Through a series of hybrid public programs combining talk, cabaret, food, performance, music, and dance with moments of attention and pleasure in which to learn and unlearn the multiple possibilities of being and being-able-to-be, the Diversorium cultural mediation programme and the subsequent artwork will foster mainstreaming and intersection processes among participants, generating knowledge and dialogue in diversities.
↖ Pina Bausch by Carlota Juncosa 
↖ From left: Maria Oliver, Veronica Valentini, Antonio Centeno, Marikarmen free. Medialab Prado, Madrid, october 2019
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