Bivac 2024

Bivac 2024 will take us on a journey of four sessions revolving around the theme of failure. Based on the four ways in which our bodies naturally react to danger – freeze, fawn, flight and fight, we will reflect on how failure, as well as holding us back, can also open up other spaces in which to think and act.

19.10 | Freeze. An open assembly of failures
With Mariona Pagès, Clara Sans, María Barrier and Leo Espluga

Why do we find it so hard to jump into action? What is it that holds us back? Freezing is an instinctive nervous system response to the threat of danger that results in complete inaction. Failure, or the fear of failure, can activate this response, leaving us paralysed and stuck in a state of inaction. This is why, with the help of the actresses Mariona Pagès and Clara Sans and with the participation of the anthropologist and communicator María Barrier and the philosopher Leo Espluga, we will cease to be nameless individuals and come together in an assembly to open up a common dialogue and set out a collective response to a problem that paralyses us.

 

19.45 | Fawn. Submission à la carte
With Carmen Salas, Alaaddine Azzouzi, Marta III-Raiga (Tenants’ Syndicate), Anna Pacheco, Jamila Pereira and Núñez García (Don’t Hit a la Negrx) and L’Última Merda.

What fawning depths have we reached for love, to get a job or to rent an apartment? Starting with these questions, and with a strategic use of servility, irony and humour, six young people and collectives share their stories of submission in epistolary format. Each letter will reveal a story of subservience, while questioning power dynamics, self-esteem and the need for acceptance.

 

20.30 | Flight. A performative escape
With Jordi Latorre, Mariona Moranta and Nara is Neus

Is imagination an escape or a means of resistance? Where do we go when we take flight? Where is there for us to go? Although failure is part of the human experience, the feeling of failure can be overwhelming and painful. It can make the world around us uninhabitable. This leads us to contemplate escape as a form of resistance to avoid disappointment, conflict, pain or discomfort. The filmmaker Jordi Latorre, together with the music producer Nara is Neus and the dancer and choreographer Mariona Moranta, will guide us through an immersive journey where sound, body and technology merge together to offer us a way out. Through a performative artefact, they invite us to explore the multiple ways of escaping, questioning the limits between the real and virtual worlds.

Stroboscopic lighting is used in this show

 

21.00 | Fight. Combat strategies
With Júlia Nueno, Isa Tofu and Anna Enguix

How can we hack the system? Who are we up against? We all have an active and combative version of ourselves that comes to the fore when we take a hit. It is in times of crisis that new strategies of collective struggle and resistance often emerge. The researcher and computational designer Júlia Nueno, the communicator Isa Tofu and the art historian Anna Enguix propose innovative ways of confronting the social model that tells us we have lost in order to find new paths towards creativity through art, fashion and technology.

 

21.45 | Concert. The failures’ closing party
With Irieix

Is failure the end? We don’t want to celebrate the end of the festival, but we do want to turn around the way we experience failure. Because in order to overcome failure, perhaps we need to collectively recognise ourselves as failures. Through the music provided by Irieix, we will return to the real world free from any feelings of defeatism or disappointment, to ask ourselves one last question: after failure, what comes next?

 

The CCCB, La Sullivan, and ten young curators (Álvaro Antón, Joan Bosch, Mariona Castells, Sarah Coronado, Ines David, Helena Escudero, Carlota González, Aleix Mata, Sabina Merida Entrocassi, and Laura Valverde) have collaborated to present this Bivac festival edition titled "Flop: Fostering the Struggle for Missed Opportunities" This cultural, artistic, and intellectual initiative explores strategies to combat disillusionment in a society that fails and celebrates mistakes as a new path to achieving success.