P.I.G.S. and Spaces of Exception by Escuela Moderna

The books (Mileu Edizioni) are curated by S.a.L.E-Docks and Escuela Moderna developed in the global landscape. P.i.G.S. It is just presented in Portugal (Lisbon Boesg), Italy (art auditorium spazio di Roma and Metropoliz Maam), We (Athens) and the Arts Santa Monica and Agora Juan Benitez in Barcelona.

Over 80 architects / projects / artists, artists and activists sent images, texts and projects that reflect the state of emergency. Is it just an instrument in the hands of the powers that be when needed to close spaces design? Or you may see the exception as an objection, as physical, social, cultural and political for experimentation space of radical democracy?

The international working group Escuela Moderna / Ateneo Libertario, has organized a working group with other denominators assets. These activities were carried out in spring 2015 in Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. This great collective work, created first in Italy, has taken on the task of creating networks in Mediterranean Europe and beyond, from the point of view of the story of the Expo 2015. A reversal of current perspectives using topics the crisis of combining art and social sensitivity. Escuela moderna partners have been A.R.T.H.E.S.I.S. We and the Social Center in Athens, La Rävala, the Agora Juan Benitez, Venko, Photo Movement, the artistic Circle Reial in Barcelona, ​​the B.O.E.S.G. in Lisbon and Metropoliz / MAAM in Rome. Public institutions have been dell'Auditorium Spazio Arte di Roma and Barcelona Arts Santa Monica.

A network of networks: P.I.G.S. Lisbon. In the local B.O.E.S.G. issues of gentrification and immigration have been the focus of interventions by Alessandro Zorzetto and Andrea Staid. Lisbon as other European metropolitan areas has suffered from property speculation, corruption and social exclusion policies, exposing many self-managed realities that oppose each day to these inhuman policies. The values ​​of freedom, self-organization, the production of subjectivity from below, were the cornerstones of the measures taken at that meeting.

A network of networks: P.I.G.S. Athens. Write Davos in Athens: "The artistic commitment in times of crisis and the formation of the artist as a" political entity "in the broad sense of the word, as well as militant as a citizen, but in any case as a person involved in the 'koina '(common and united) of life in modern cities in advanced countries have emerged at the round table organized among scholars and artists attending the exhibition' We '(George Byron-Davos, Andrea Aureli, Mauro Folci Laura Cazzaniga, Despina Meimaroglou) that have been connected in a video conference with Juan Domingo Sanchez Estop and Franco "Bifo '. He said the central question of the relationship between the center and the suburbs, both from the artistic point of view, especially as a political coercion. "

A network of networks: P.I.G.S. Rome. In Rome, the topics discussed were those of gentrification, housing struggle, denouncing the horrors of 'Art. 5 of the housing plan. Also tourism, and social policies in Barcelona (Porretta), a focus on Palestine. Before the concert of Marco Rovelli, they intervened Andrea Staid, Mario Pinto and Rui Jorge Branco Sivia.

A network of networks: P.I.G.S. Barcelona. A Barcelona was an extremely complex program. Topics also were crossed, can be summarized in the following days: the encounter with the homeless and citizens affected by a decision of PAH (platforms Affected by Mortgages), celebrations Agora Juan Benitez, a living monument to the Raval memory of a martyr. The intervention of the CNT stage on May 1, the evening event, urban, such as the collective performance of migrants organized by Domingo Mestre actions. Gender issues, to Vensambleu Library, the struggles of the Putas Outraged.