Politics and tactics within displacement.  An international laboratory exploring the embodied politics of relating across places, contexts and social spheres. 1-5th Oct, Barcelona/ES

What does is mean to struggle within and against precarity, globalization and neoliberalism in embodied terms? How do we forge networks of care, post-national struggles and solidarities in our everyday? When do we resist displacement and how do we resist through displacement? How do we think consistency and sustainability? What terms serve us to think an ethics and politics of displacement – situated/adrift, local/global, intimate/alienated, individual/collective, independent/interdependent, coming/going, flight/promise, transversality/intersectionality? What are the ways in which contemporary practices of displacement are produced by the neoliberal paradigm and embedded within structures and systems of governance?

/ with Manuela Zechner, Marcelo Expósito, Paula Cobo-Guevara, Imayna Caceres, Daniela Ortiz, Marc Herbst, Esquizo Barcelona Group (tbc), and Bue Rübner Hansen. Hosted by La Electrodoméstica

/// Registration deadline
15 September 2014. Write to politicstactics@gmail.com

/// Costs*
Normal 120€ /// Supporter 150€ /// Acampada-Sleepover 230€ /// Hyperprecarious – write us if you really want to join but can’t afford the above.

/// more info:
web https://laelectrodomestica.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/situating-oneself-autumn-laboratory/
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///programme

Day 1 \\ Introduction, methodologies and definitions
2-5pm
Defining concepts and stakes: situatedness and displacement. Sharing experiences and stories. Methodological considerations. Manuela Zechner & Paula Cobo-Guevara
6-8pm
How to tell the story of a collective trajectory. To produce or not to produce?
Grupo Esquizo Barcelona

Day 2 \\ Positionalities
2-5pm
Where we stand, how we move. Diagrams of class/race/gender, inhabiting the social. What bodies can do in context. Manuela Zechner
6-8pm
Materialist dispositions, questions of orientation: what it means to be positioned. Bue Hansen

Day 3 \\ Trajectories
2-5pm
Mapping, tracing and telling trajectories. Giving account of itinerancy. The role of care/affective/work networks. Paula Cobo-Guevara & Manuela Zechner
6-8pm
Diagrammatic currents: mapping and thinking through diagrams. Examples from within and between art, activism and social movements in South America and Europe. Marcelo Expósito

Day 4 \\ Thinking context, composition and organisation
2-5pm
Crossing contexts: between arts, activism and academia. Movement workers within their ecosystems. Marc Herbst
6-8pm
Composition and organisation in difference: struggling around migration. Derootedness and its potentials for remapping borders and limits. Disrupting codes of exclusion, discrimination and injustice. Imayna Caceres and Daniela Ortiz

Day 5 // Strategies, politics and ethics
2-5pm
The ethics and politics of situatedness and displacement. thinking across nano, micro and macropoltics. Conclusions and final discussion. All