Celebrate a creative, collective and different Sant Jordi at Santa Mònica.
On 23 April, from 11am to 8pm, Les Mòniques, artists in residence at Santa Mònica, will open their creative space to turn it into a place for exchanging books and plants.
Among other activities, there will be the possibility of consulting and self-printing copies of the self-publications created at Santa Mònica and creating badges as a souvenir of the day.
In addition, the Gastronomy Guild will refresh the day by offering rose petal water to the participants. We look forward to sharing a day of exchange, self-printing, creation and fun!
Self-publications created at Santa Mònica:
- Walter Benjamin. A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence (Digitalisation Guild)
Facsimile self-published by the Gremi de Digitalització 22-23 that proposes a re-reading of the essay A Brief History of Photography that Walter Benjamin published in 1931, based on Benjamin’s systematic substitution of the word “photography” for “artificial intelligence”. The reading of this new version of the text reveals how the alarmism about the end of human art, generated by the media boom experienced in 2022, about the new tools of artificial intelligence has, in reality, fuelled old political and social ghosts that have been re-catalysed through the transformations of the contemporary image.
- Lift-Leaks (Spaces Guild)
Lift-Leaks is a confidential document that someone left behind in the Sala Bar at Santa Mònica. It is also an object prototype designed and produced by the Spaces Guild 22-23 which, using ethnographic methodologies of invisibility and observation, collects the spontaneous perceptions of the people who walk the Ramblas and visitors to Santa Mònica about the street, the city, art and the arts centre itself.
- Invocacions (Participation Guild)
Fanzine beta-insurrectionist version of a first version of the Participation Guild 23-24 invocations mailbox. Trace of the insurrectionist comparsa that celebrated on 24 February the monstrous resistance in a “pasacalle” together with the Morenada Perifèrica, Radia Cava-ret, Silvia Maestre Limiñana and members of Irreparables. With the participation of texts-gestures by Patri Vizcaino, Frank Trobok, Pati del Razo, La inmunda, La copy-toe, Tatiana Antoni Conesa, Ángela Palacios and Nadia Jbr.
A publication that arises from the experiences of the community project Llums Comuns, promoted and produced by Santa Mònica and La Traginera, a Ciutat Vella community that is committed to art and public space as a common good. The fanzine is made up of two parts, one that develops the implications of the project with the neighbourhood community, and the other that explains the instructions to follow to build light artefacts based on the work Liberty and Light by Chila Kumari, step by step using the DIY/DIWO methodology.
Lumbre Migrante is a guide in printed and digital format promoted by the Participation Guild 22-23 that aims to accompany and map the process of landing in the administrative procedures linked to the Law on Foreigners in Spain. In addition to a guide of procedures to organise documents, Lumbre Migrante is also a repository of resources that have been listed thanks to the following collaborating entities: Associació Migració i Economia Social i Solidària-Migress, Associació més que cures, Sindicat Sindillar – Sindihogar, Top Manta, Putas Indignadas, Conectats, Fundació Surt, Tic-Tac, Xarxa Jurídica Antiracista, S. O. S. Racisme, La Creatura and Abarka.
In addition to self-publications, Santa Mònica also publishes a collection of books with Galàxia Gutenberg. If you want to give culture as a gift, this Sant Jordi or any other occasion, Santa Mònica’s publications are on sale in the city’s main bookshops.
- Snapshot of a new institution. Vocabularies for artistic collectivisation
Fifty-one terms show the various institutional essays that the Santa Mònica arts centre has been developing over the last few years, focused on rethinking its structure, nature and function from everyday practice. These terms, organised into six sections, make up a necessarily incomplete glossary, neither closed nor definitive: a snapshot of a new institution based on porosity with respect to collective action, as well as on self-interrogation and constant transformation.
- The tradition that crosses us
In February 2022, the Santa Mònica arts centre presented The tradition that crosses us, an exhibition on various critical readings of the traditions that have shaped us and continue to do so. This book is based on this tentacular experience, its derivations and escapes. It is the written trace of the processes that developed throughout the entire creative process, and which continued to generate forms of knowledge while the exhibition was open to the public.
- Expose, don’t expose
The first programming cycle of the new Santa Mònica orbited around a set of questions derived from the processes of deconstruction and reconstruction of an arts centre, in the institutional, architectural and symbolic spheres.
