"Via Làctia" Performative Lecture, with María García Vera
10 December 2026 – 11 December 2026 · 18:00
Centre de les Arts Lliures, Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera, Ciutat Vella
The Milky Way is a performative lecture revolving around the idea of beginning: the beginning of a process, an action, a path. At a time when imagining alternatives to our ways of living and producing seems ever harder, I ask myself how to take a first step that sets off in another direction, however small. The piece is built as an accumulation of beginnings, a beginning of beginnings or an infinite beginning, focusing on how to inhabit the moment when something new appears. But what happens when we are going so fast that we cannot stop? The piece is about starting a new path that somehow moves something, about gathering disparate things that help me begin. It's about not seeing the whole. It's about feeling like a louse in a wig. What does a louse live on? Blood: imagine it in a wig. It's about looking for a way out in the wrong place until you are exhausted. It's about creating a constellation that can guide us. It's about the Milky Way and the starry sky, unlikely connections, things crossed through, Kim Basinger and Carlos Jesús, violent spores floating in the air, primitive accumulation, telepathy and premonitory dreams, exaggerating everything and inventing everything so…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 2 November 2026