On 15 October 2024, as part of Adelita Husni Bey’s most recent and ongoing research into water infrastructures in Libya, from colonialism to the present day, the artist will join Sitesize, a Barcelona-based collective whose current research is focused on the historical layers of water use and abstraction. Together, they will propose two exercises with the goal of exchanging methodologies, knowledge, and experiences of water custody, on the colonial continuum and hydro-extractivist practices. Through their respective case studies, their exercises will address how water is understood as a resource, how it is experienced somatically, how water is remembered, and how the, at times slippery, dynamic between oppressor and oppressed can be understood through the lens of infrastructure. If you are in Barcelona on that day join Sara Alberani (DAI, 2025) who co-curated SOWING ARCHIVES ~ IT Out Off Barcelona together with Chiara Siravo. The public programme offers a workshop and a lecture. The artists involved, Adelita Husni Bey, Muna Mussie, and Daniela Ortiz happen to have all 3 been guest lecturing at DAI in near or distant pasts, in different constellations.
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The workshop, which starts at 4.30 pm, will be performance-based, and will involve a walk in the urban area around La Virreina. No previous experience of performance is needed. The workshops will be held in English and Spanish with informal translations.
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When Water Infrastructures Speak
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On the same day at 7 pm, Husni Bey will present her most recent and ongoing research into the implementation of water controlling infrastructures in the contexts of colonialism and its contemporary capitalist legacy in Libya. Based on archival research, oral history, and the development of a participatory pedagogical approach rooted in political theater, this investigation will be presented in the form of informal experimental lecture, followed by a presentation and conversation with Sitesize, moderated by Barcelona-based collective Espectros De Lo Urbano (Nancy Garín & Antoine Silvestre).
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