![Elise Fitte-Duval, Des mareyeuses attendent les pêcheurs tôt le matin, sur la plage de Bargny [Mujeres procesadoras de pescado esperan a los pescadores temprano por la mañana en la playa de Bargny], 2019](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/museo-g.gif.webp)
Held on 26 nov 2019
Inside the framework of Museo Situado, a network of collaboration with different migrant collectives and associations from Madrid’s Lavapiés neighbourhood and the Museo Reina Sofía, this new edition of Situated Voices explores the different artistic and feminist approaches to the notion of debt, understood as an instrument of economic, political and cultural domination. In this respect, debt alludes to, on the one side, States’ foreign debts, leaving them without agency and at the service of external economic interests; and, on the other, to a widespread mechanism of social control in the contemporary world, delineating what is gradually becoming known as “the factory of the indebted man”.
This activity is organised in dialogue with the project Pincha tu Deuda (Pierce Your Debt), developed by Grigri Projects and Plataforma Auditoría Ciudadana, both of which look to kindle and conduct actions and alliances to debate how foreign debt operates in different countries and the tools citizens can employ to combat the effects.
Debt has a deeper impact on women given that the assets and public services that cease to become available on account of the prioritisation of debt payments are related to care, which mainly falls on women. Among other issues, this situation brings about instability and forces migration towards the North. From this perspective, therefore, the encounter brings together different experiences from Senegal and Argentina, two countries adversely affected by foreign debt, which works today to drive unequal capital accumulation all over the world.
Senegal-based Martinique photographer Elise Fitte-Duval, who creates portraits from the everyday world in her work, and Senegalese activist Khady Diouf, a specialist in migration, will analyse the problem of debt in their country and on the African continent, in addition to its origins, the consequences entailed and the possible channels to demand a more equal global economy.
For their part, the Argentinian feminist group Ni una menos (Not One Less) will put forward an audiovisual synthesis of the research project Una lectura feminista de la deuda: ¡Vivas, libres y desendeudadas nos queremos! (A Feminist Reading of Debt: We Want to Be Alive, Free and Debt-free!), conceived as a collective tool for understanding why the problem of States’ and subjects’ structural debts are linked to violence against feminised bodies.
Programme
Situated Voices
Force line
Contemporary Malaise
With the collaboration of
Grigri Projects and Plataforma Auditoría Ciudadana
Organised by
Museo Situado
Participants
Majo Castells is a designer and ceramicist. She participates in the design, cultural revitalisation and project coordination of Grigri Projects, a project devoted to research, creation and cultural production and with a sphere of action in participatory design, urban intervention and transdisciplinary community processes. She is currently working as a producer and coordinator on the project Pincha tu Deuda (Pierce Your Debt).
Khady Diouf is a migration specialist and an activist against female genital mutilation with the Union of Families Association (UNAF). She holds an MA in International Relations and in Spanish Language and Literature from the Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar University (UCAD). Her intervention preparations on this occasion feature the collaboration of Fatou Binetou Mbaye, Lala Konaté and Batouly Rahmatoulay Ly.
Elise Fitte-Duval is a Martinique-born photographer who lives in Senegal. A graduate from the Martinique École d'Arts Plastiques (DNAP) and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs (EnsAD) in Paris, she won a Casa África award at the Bamako Photography Biennale as best African female photographer in 2011 for her series Vivre les pieds dans l'eau, on the floods in Dakar.
Verónica Gago is a militant feminist, a lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of San Martín and a member of the publishing house Tinta Limón; Luci Cavallero is a militant feminist and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Both are members of the feminist collective Ni Una Menos (Not One Less). In 2019, they published Una lectura feminista de la deuda: ¡Vivas, libres y desendeudadas nos queremos! (A Feminist Reading of Debt: We Want to Be Alive, Free and Debt-free), a book which assembles militant research, and, for this occasion, both have prepared an audiovisual synthesis of the project, to be presented by Argentinian artist and activist Guillermina Mongan.
![Miguel Brieva, ilustración de la novela infantil Manuela y los Cakirukos (Reservoir Books, 2022) [izquierda] y Cibeles no conduzcas, 2023 [derecha]. Cortesía del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/ecologias_del_deseo_utopico.jpg.webp)
![Ángel Alonso, Charbon [Carbón], 1964. Museo Reina Sofía](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/perspectivas_ecoambientales.jpg.webp)
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The School of Common Knowledge (SCK) draws on the network, knowledge and experience of L’Internationale, a confederation of museums, art organizations and universities that strives to reimagine and practice internationalism, solidarity and communality within the cultural field. This year, the SCK program focuses on the contested and dynamic notions of rooting and uprooting in the framework of present —colonial, migrant, situated, and ecological— complexities.
Building on the legacy of the Glossary of Common Knowledge and the current European program Museum of the Commons, the SCK invites participants to reflect on the power of language to shape our understanding of art and society through a co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.
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In this activity, the recipients of the 2024–2025 Joaquim Jordà Residencies call, María Aparicio (Argentina, 1992) and Andrés Jurado (Colombia, 1980), present respective projects related to their body of work in an open session in which to discover the creative interests of two of the most up-and-coming independent film-makers in Latin America today.
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![Carol Mansour y Muna Khalidi, A State of Passion [Estado de pasión], 2024, película](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/palestine%20cinema%20day%202.jpg.webp)
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