Saloncito libre de estéticas desobedientes at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
This past February 13th, Belén a.k.a. Pffftattoo y Alicia del Río a.k.a. Pelosxdioseros, set up a mini open salon for the subversive exploration of aesthetic expression in the Kolmena sessions organized by Kolektiff in the Fine Arts School at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao. During the session they put into practice the ideas which Belén had posed during her talk the previous day, The tattoo party as a practice of bioresistance, and they replicated the methodology of the Club de cicatrización.
A conversation began about disobedience, power and responsibility. During that very session, the rules imposed by the university (that human bodies were not to be tattooed) were disobeyed. The participants reflected on the importance of generating alternate systems of collectively shared responsibility for disobedience so that it would not land on individuals. They harkened back to the methodological proposal to commit ourselves to care for strangers so that we will all be alright even if we don’t know exactly where we are headed. They reflected on policies of hygiene, economies which are submerged in or independant from the market, and about capitalist strategies for incentivizing consumption through intellectual property. Also, about the free transmission of knowledge and its legitimization/delegitimization through the concept of professionality. Belén y Alicia presented the materials and explained how to use them and then the multidirectional process of bodily intervention began.
