1+1+1…: ‘Bolloisla’ by Blanca Arias
10 — 22 November 2020, 5 — 8 pm
— Curated by edu rubix
- Artists
- blanca arias
- Curators
- edu rubix
- Price
- Free admission
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The project 'Bolloisla' by artist Blanca Arias is part of the delocalized itinerary "1+1+1...", that will unfold throughout the Gothic and El Born neighborhoods from November 10-22.
Bolloisla is a proposal for a counter urbanized queer utopia that takes the shape of a videogame. Envisioned and created by Blanca Arias, this millennial cyberfantasy generates a space for escape that raises questions around the vulnerability of bodies, the collective management of pain, the hacking of gaze commands, and around collective organization outside of cis-heteropatriarchal and colonial politics.
The gameplay invites the participant to wander around a sci-fi island and to interact with the “bolleras”(dykes): cyborgs who separate themselves from any lesbian concept tied to genitalia and who, by overthrowing binary organizations, do multiple symbiosis with other species that inhabit the same ecosystem.While in dialogue with the imagined participant, the “bolleras” present the key points and questions that this virtual non-normative space launches as an attempt to rethink the matrix of dissident affective networks during a time in which body politics are being materially and legally disabled.
blanca arias
1998, Barcelona
blanca arias (ella/elle) is an artist, researcher, witch and lesbian, committed to love and critique. Born in Barcelona in 1998 under the sign of scorpio, she feels especially responsible for the creation of creative networks for worlds that can be experienced more fully by all bodies. Some of her recurring lines of work are the exploration of femininity as resistance, her link with vulnerability, myth as a point for flight and intimacy, or anti-normative knowledge circuits with regards to witchery. She graduated in Art History from the University of Barcelona and is currently studying a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature, Art and Thought at Pompeu Fabra University.
edu rubix
1997, Barcelona
edu rubix is a musician and thinker. Starting from their queer body experience, their work focuses on tracking, thinking and hacking visuality, understood as one of the main productive technologies that have perpetuated the organization of power and the norm. They have a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona.
Last updated October 22, 2020
