Mortals of the World, Unite!

PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES:

• June 19 Moralists and decadents today, yesterday and always. Literary workshop with Cristina Morales
• June 27 Tentacular geographies of the new youth. Presentation by Amaia Sánchez Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol (Grandeza Studio)
• June 28, 29 and 30 On-stage video dramaturgy a laboratory from Agrupación Señor Serrano Video dramaturgy on stage workshop
• July 11 · Inmortality, eternal youth and death. Round table with Igor Bragado, María A. Blasco and Albert Cortina
• July 13 · Affective digital archaeologies. Digital worldbuilding course tought by Ida y Vuelta collective 

Mortals of the World, Unite! is a public program of debates, workshops and critical thinking sessions that will take place at Medialab Matadero between June and July 2024. Curated by Amaia Sánchez-Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol (from GRANDEZA STUDIO), the program is part of their research project Revisiting Titono: Tentacular Geographies of Eternal Youth.

What does eternal life mean? what ontologies and epistemologies of the human are emerging from scientific-technological developments that seek to extend life? what new extractivisms and transformative economies of territories and bodies are emerging in the environments of this new frontier of knowledge? under what assumptions is the post-human becoming or the cyborg transition imagined? what energetic, material, spatial and discursive implications are hidden behind the creation of digital twins? what new affective paradigms are proposed by digital necromancy? Could decadentism or senescent pride become forms of resistance to the imperatives of somatic optimization? What are the implications of life extension on a planet of limited resources and increasing population? Is transhumanism the transposition of the old social classes into the new biological classes? Which bodies have the right to extend their lives and which do not? What does the right to mourn - or grievability, to quote Judith Butler - mean in a necropolitical regime that simultaneously normalizes and sidesteps the confrontation with death?