Bivac 2024
FLOP: Fostering the Struggle for Missed Opportunities
Individual failures, collective solutions! The Bivac festival of young thought is back for the third year running, with a varied evening of proposals that explore the question of how we can live with failure and the ways in which we can resist it. Through humour, music, movement and dialogue, we take a fresh look at the ideas of precariousness and disappointment and dissect the idea of failure.
Freeze. An open assembly of failures
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 ...
Fawn. Submission à la carte
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 ...
Flight. Huida performática
Jordi Latorre, Mariona Moranta and Nara is Neus
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, ...
Flight. Huida performática
Júlia Nueno, IsaTofu and Anna Enguix
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 ...
Concert. The failures’ closing party
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 ...