Hasta Que Los Leones Tengan Historiadores

HASTA
los
que
LEONES
NO tengan
HISTORIADORES...
DECLINACIN MAGNTICA
Carlota lvarez Basso

Directora de Matadero Madrid
Manuela Villa
Responsable de Contenidos, Matadero Madrid
1. Sally Tallant: Experiments in Integrated

Programming en Paul ONeill & Mick Wilson
(Eds.): Curating and the Educational Turn,
Londres: Open Editions / de Appel, 2010
1. Sally Tallant: Experiments in Integrated

Programming in Paul ONeill & Mick Wilson
(Eds.): Curating and the Educational Turn,
London: 2Open Editions / de Appel, 2010
Manuela Villa
Head of Art Programme, Matadero Madrid
tion of meaning undertaken by the programming department. That is to say, it breaks with the dichotomy
between public users and the content manager, finding
an environment that does not lack a degree of controversy, in which we can interact beyond our respective
comfort zones. It is an experiment that kicks off a series
of exhibitions which will be followed up with an annual
public presentation by each of Matadero Madrids research groups.
Matadero Madrid would like to extend its thanks to
Francisco Carballo, Dolores Galindo, Patrice Naiambana, Rajyashree Pandey, Sanjay Seth and all of the
members of the group Decolonising Knowledge and
Aesthetics.
AT A R T C E N T R E S
Decolonizando las estticas y el conocimiento, y que

supone un ejemplo clarificador del potencial de estas
metodologas para generar un contexto crtico e innovador dentro de los sistemas del arte.
Esta metodologa de trabajo supone para Matadero Madrid un ejercicio de permeabilidad que experimenta con algunas de las cuestiones planteadas en
la discusin global sobre nuevo institucionalismo. Un
debate abierto que propone la transformacin y apertura de la institucin artstica desde adentro. Esta nueva
institucin se caracteriza por la apertura y el dilogo que
tiene lugar a la hora de programar eventos y que est
basado en el trabajo procesual, segn la comisaria britnica Sally Tallant. As, la institucin pone en funcionamiento algunas de las estrategias inherentes a los formatos de trabajo que muchos artistas contemporneos
ya utilizan 1. Un entorno experimental de produccin de
conocimiento que erige cuestiones como la discusin,
la duda, el fracaso, la crtica, la amistad y la colaboracin y que contribuye al proceso continuo de bsqueda
de redefinicin del potencial de los lmites entre teora y
prctica o entre institucin y pblico.
As, para Matadero Madrid, esta exposicin supone canalizar el trabajo de investigacin, realizado por
los usuarios del centro de arte, hacia el corazn mismo
de la produccin de significado que se realiza desde
el departamento de programacin. Es decir, rompe con
la dicotoma entre el pblico usuario y el administrador
de contenidos, encontrando un entorno, no exento de
cierta controversia, en el que relacionarnos ms all de
nuestras respectivas zonas de confort. Un experimento
que abre un ciclo de exposiciones que ser seguido por
una presentacin pblica anual de cada grupo de investigacin en residencia en Matadero Madrid.
Matadero Madrid quiere agradecer a Francisco
Carballo, Dolores Galindo, Rajyashree Pandey, Sanjay
Seth, y a todos los miembros que han formado parte del
grupo Decolonizando el pensamiento y las estticas.
UNTIL LIONS SET THE PROGRAMMES
del ao 2012 lleg a mi bandeja de entrada un correo electrnico del Centro de

Estudios Postcoloniales de Goldsmiths College, de la
Universidad de Londres en donde instaban a Matadero a crear redes de investigacin con universidades y
centros de arte espaoles y latinoamericanos. Esta nota
supuso el comienzo del grupo de trabajo Decolonizando
las estticas y el conocimiento que lanz dicho Centro
de Goldsmiths College junto a Matadero Madrid. Un espacio de investigacin que forma parte del Programa de
pensamiento de Matadero Madrid. Comunidad y teora.
Junto a otros dos grupos de trabajo que se encuentran
en residencia en Matadero Madrid: Microondas. Laboratorio de educacin disruptiva y Ecologas. Nuevo territorio y paisajes en cultura contempornea.
Estos tres grupos de trabajo se han ido conformando, a lo largo de dos aos, a travs de invitacin y
de convocatorias pblicas, por un grupo de ciudadanos,
tericos, artistas plsticos, artistas escnicos, comisarios, agentes culturales, educadores, estudiantes universitarios, etc. Unos grupos de investigacin y praxis
colaborativos en los que el saber es compartido desde
las experiencias especficas individuales de manera horizontal y sin roles previos asignados. Un lugar de experimentacin sobre los lmites de la teora y la prctica,
sobre la autora individual y colectiva y sobre cmo aportar en un contexto colectivo desde los conocimientos y
los roles individuales de artista, comisario, investigador,
estudiante o simplemente ciudadano crtico.
Decolonizando las estticas y el conocimiento
se plante como objetivo dotar de herramientas a la
comunidad artstica local para analizar su mundo, desde una perspectiva crtica, poniendo en prctica ese
acercamiento a las rutinas artsticas de cada cual. De
esta manera, el posicionamiento postcolonial cuestiona
la universalidad de las ciencias humanas europeas en
un contexto cambiante y globalizado, proponiendo otras
perspectivas no europeas o de comunidades occidentales que forman parte de la dispora.
El colectivo Declinacin Magntica est compuesto por Aimar Arriola, Jose M. Bueso, Diego del
Pozo, Eduardo Galvagni, Sally Gutirrez, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga y Silvia Zayas, con la colaboracin
de Juan Guardiola. Es decir, comisarios, artistas plsticos, artistas escnicos y otros agentes culturales. Grupo transdisciplinar a caballo entre las identidades de
equipo de investigadores, grupo curatorial o colectivo
artstico, que nace durante las sesiones de trabajo de
INSTITUTIONAL
PERMEABILITY
desde una perspectiva crtica poniendo en prctica estos acercamientos en las rutinas artsticas
de cada uno de sus miembros. Su integracin en
la programacin del centro pone de manifiesto el
potencial de estos grupos que acoge Matadero
Madrid en residencia desde el ao 2012 y que
hacen uso de los recursos de la institucin como
son los espacios, el equipo humano, el equipo
tcnico y una partida presupuestaria anual.
Estos recursos, en manos de un notable
equipo humano y gracias a la cooperacin entre instituciones tan relevantes como Goldsmiths
University of London, British Council y Matadero
Madrid, y al apoyo de Samsung; se transforman
en una importante exposicin sobre nuestra visin actual de las cuestiones coloniales.
Carlota lvarez Basso

Director of Matadero Madrid
LA EXPOSICIN
Hasta que los leones

no tengan historiadores toma su ttulo del proverbio africano Hasta que los leones no tengan
historiadores, las historias de cacera seguirn
glorificando al cazador. Un posicionamiento
postcolonial que pone de manifiesto las intenciones del colectivo Declinacin Magntica en esta
exposicin fruto de un trabajo de dos aos desde
que sus miembros se conocieran en el grupo de
investigacin Decolonizando las estticas y el
conocimiento promovido por Matadero Madrid y
el Centro de Estudios Postcoloniales de Goldsmiths College, Londres.
Grupo de investigacin que se complementa con otros dos: Microondas. Laboratorio de
educacin disruptiva y Ecologas. Nuevo territorio y paisajes en cultura contempornea. Conformados por comisarios, artistas, investigadores,
agentes culturales o ciudadanos, estos grupos de
trabajo tienen como objetivo analizar la realidad
THE EXHIBITION Until lions have their own historians takes its
name from the African proverb Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter, a gesture that
proves the postcolonial position of Magnetic Declination. The
show is the result of two years of hard work by its members who
met as part of the research group Decolonising Knowledge and
Aesthetics, a joint venture between Matadero Madrid and the
Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths College, London.
This research collective is complemented by two other
groups: Microwaves: Disruptive Education Laboratory, and
Ecologies: New Territory and Landscapes in Contemporary Culture. Formed by curators, artists, researchers, cultural agents or
citizens, these working groups aim to assess reality from a critical
perspective and to implement these approaches into the artistic
routines of each of their members. Their inclusion in the centres
programme illustrates the potential of these groups which Matadero Madrid hosts since 2012, and which make use of the institutions resources including its spaces, workforce and technical
team, as well as a specific yearly budget allocation.
In the hands of a remarkable team of professionals, and as
a result of the cooperation between institutions as relevant as
Goldsmiths College, the British Council, Matadero Madrid, and
the support of Samsung, these resources have been transformed into an important exhibition examining our current views
on colonial issues.
EL 25 DE ENERO
and Aesthetics working sessions, thus proving the potential of these methodologies to create a critical and
innovative environment within art systems.
This working methodology entails an exercise in permeability for Matadero Madrid, which experiments with
some of the issues that have been raised in global discussions regarding new institutionalism. It is an open
debate advocating open-endedness and transformation
of the artistic institution from within. This new institution is characterised by open-endedness and dialogue...
leading to events-based and process-based work, says
British curator Sally Tallant. In this manner, the institution utilises some of the strategies inherent in the ways
in which many contemporary artists make work.1 This
experimental, knowledge production environment raises issues such as discussion, doubt, failure, criticism,
friendship and collaboration, and contributes to the continual process of seeking to redefine the potential of the
boundaries between theory and practice and between
the institution and the public.
For Matadero Madrid, the exhibition thus implies
the channelling of the research work conducted by the
art centres users towards the very heart of the produc-
HASTA QUE LOS LEONES

NO PROGRAMEN CENTROS
DE ARTE
roles. They are a place to test the boundaries of theory

and practice, of individual and collective authorship, and
of how to make contributions in a group context via the
knowledge and roles of the artist, curator, researcher,
student and simply critical citizens.
Decolonising Knowledge and Aesthetics set itself the
goal of providing the local artistic community with tools
to analyse its world using a critical approach, and to incorporate this approach into the artistic routines of each
individual. Thus, the postcolonial direction taken in the
exhibition questions the universality of the human sciences in Europe in an ever-changing and globalised world,
offering up other non-European points of view as well as
stances taken by Western diasporic communities.
Magnetic Declination is formed by Aimar Arriola, Jose M. Bueso, Diego del Pozo, Eduardo Galvagni, Sally Gutirrez, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga and
Silvia Zayas, with the collaboration of Juan Guardiola;
that is, curators, visual artists, performing artists and
other cultural agents. The personality of this multidisciplinary group lies somewhere between that of a
research team, a curators group and an artistic collective. It emerged from the Decolonising Knowledge
I NSTITUCIONAL
ON 25 JANUARY 2012, I received an email from the Center for Postcolonial Studies of Goldsmiths College,
University of London, which expressed their interest in
setting up research networks with Spanish and Latin
American universities and art centres. This message
sparked the creation of the working group Decolonising Knowledge and Aesthetics, launched by the
aforementioned Centre in collaboration with Matadero
Madrid. This constitutes an research forum that operates under Matadero Madrids Thought Programme:
Community and Theory, alongside two other working
groups that are permanent fixtures at Matadero Madrid: Microwaves: Disruptive Education Laboratory,
and Ecologies: New Territory and Landscapes in Contemporary Culture.
Over two years, through invitations and public nominations, these three working groups have welcomed
into their ranks members from groups including citizens,
scholars, visual and performing artists, curators, cultural
agents, educators, university students, among others.
These collaborative research and practice groups share
their know-how through specific individual experiences,
using a horizontal approach without any pre-assigned
PERMEABILIDAD
Hasta que los
LEONES
NO
tengan
HISTORIADORES...
THE MARGINS AND SURPLUSES of history and law, populations and subjects, representation and repression, economy and education, violence and memory are the key
concepts that Magnetic Declination examines
through two complementary artistic projects
in this exhibition. History and Law are the two
priviledged mechanisms that mediate between subjects and power, both defined by an
apparently unquestionable normativity under
which lay a set of foundational fictions which
these productions aim to disclose.
The title comes from an African proverb:
Until lions have their own historians, tales
of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
To return the dispossessed sovereignty to
the lions, we urgently need to create narratives from below, to break the monopoly
of the predators who dictate their History
and their Law.
M A G N E T I C D E C L I N AT I O N
UNTIL
L I O N S H AV E
THEIR OWN
HISTORIANS...
MAGNETIC DECLINATION is the angle between compass north and true north, varying
both from place to place and with the passage of time. It evokes unexpected variations
in coordinates, the re-ordering of geographies and shifts in points of view which leave
space for the unforeseen, opening opportunities for creative research.
Magnetic Declination is a research and
artistic production group formed by theorists,
historians, curators and visual artists. Departing from post- and decolonial studies and
examining the immediate context, the work of
MD seeks the hybridization of strategies and
methodologies coming from different fields
of knowledge production. MD emerges from
the research group Decolonising Knowledge
and Aesthetics, a joint venture between
Matadero Madrid and Goldsmiths College,
London, launched in autumn 2012. Members
of the group include Aimar Arriola, Jose M.
Bueso, Diego del Pozo, Eduardo Galvagni,
Sally Gutirrez, Julia Morandeira Arrizabala-
ga, and Silvia Zayas, with the collaboration of

Juan Guardiola.
DECLINACIN MAGNTICA
LA DECLINACIN MAGNTICA
es en un
punto dado de la Tierra, el ngulo comprendido entre el norte magntico local y el norte verdadero (o norte geogrfico);
vara dependiendo de lugar y con el paso del tiempo. Sugiere variaciones inesperadas en los ejes de coordenadas,
perspectivas que se tuercen, geografas que se dislocan y
se reordenan, abriendo espacios para lo imprevisto.
Declinacin Magntica es un grupo de investigacin y produccin artstica constituido por tericos, historiadores, comisarios y artistas visuales. Partiendo de
los estudios post/de-coloniales y del contexto inmediato
ms prximo, el trabajo del grupo DM busca la hibridacin
de estrategias y metodologas procedentes de diversas
reas de la prctica y de la produccin de conocimiento.
Surge en el contexto de la plataforma de investigacin
Decolonizando Estticas y Conocimiento, un proyecto
conjunto entre Matadero Madrid y Goldsmiths College,
Londres, iniciado en otoo de 2012. Componen el grupo
Aimar Arriola, Jose M. Bueso, Diego del Pozo, Eduardo
Galvagni, Sally Gutirrez, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga,
y Silvia Zayas, con la colaboracin de Juan Guardiola.
MRGENES Y EXCEDENTES
-de la historia y de la ley, de las poblaciones y los sujetos, de

la representacin y la represin, de la economa y la
educacin, la violencia y la memoria- son los dos conceptos clave que el colectivo Declinacin Magntica
examina en su representacin y produccin, en esta
exposicin que despliega dos proyectos artsticos complementarios. Historia y Ley son dos de los mecanismos
privilegiados de mediacin entre sujeto y poder, caracterizados ambos por una normatividad aparentemente
incontestable, tras la que se esconde un nexo comn
de ficciones fundacionales sobre las que pretenden intervenir las dos producciones artsticas articuladas en
esta exposicin.
El ttulo viene de un proverbio africano: Hasta
que los leones no tengan sus propios historiadores, las
historias de cacera seguirn glorificando al cazador.
Para devolver la soberana desposeda a los leones, es
urgente producir narraciones desde abajo, romper el
monopolio de los depredadores que nos dictan su Historia y su Ley.
Vistas generales de la exposicin.

De arriba abajo y de izquierda a
derecha: Palindrptico, Margen
de Error, La Habitacin, paneles
de libros de Margen de Error,
Mesa Ante la Ley y atril.
General views of the exhibition.

From top to down and left to
right: Palindroptic, Margin of
Error, The Room, book panels
from Margin of Error, Before the
Laws desk, and music stand.
Instalacin compuesta por
VDEOS, MADERA Y LIBROS.
llevadas a cabo con los alumnos han sido de dos tipos: por un lado, ejercicios que
buscaban hacer aflorar ideas y representaciones instaladas en el inconsciente, a travs de la generacin de situaciones de discusin en torno a nociones y conceptos
habitualmente poco tratados en la enseanza de estas
temticas (como genocidio o explotacin); y por otro,
ejercicios ms pautados en los que los alumnos reciban
instrucciones para el desarrollo de acciones concretas
de memorizacin y de puesta en escena, herramientas
importantes tanto en el aprendizaje como en la representacin del pasado. En Azar, los alumnos hacen rodar una
perinola hasta que cae, mostrando en su cara superior
el concepto que han de definir. Conquista, esclavitud,
evangelizacin son algunos ejemplos, que provocan una
confrontacin entre acercamientos ms conservadores y
ms crticos en el grupo. En Libros de Texto, los alumnos
se distribuyen en tres mesas con tres grupos de libros
que retratan la colonizacin espaola de Amrica: libros
de la poca franquista espaola, libros actuales de diferentes pases americanos que fueron colonias espaolas,
y libros espaoles empleados hoy en diferentes comunidades autnomas. A cada mesa se le peda la bsqueda y
comparativa de referencias, representaciones y menciones de lugares comunes de historia colonial; el resultado
recoge la diferencia del punto de vista desde dnde se
escribe la historia, y el poder de las editoriales en definir
una versin hegemnica. Paralelo a ello, los estudiantes
recibieron la indicacin de intervenir los libros de manera libre: recortes, dibujos y pginas en negro completan
esta edicin. Tableau Vivant va ms all y trabaja en el
mbito de la puesta en escena: a los participantes se les
pidi representar, como si de una pintura se tratar, la
escena del desembarco de Coln. Tras componer la imagen colectivamente, cada estudiante deba decir en voz
history, and how the violence running through both

aspects leaves its mark on body.
THE AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION is presented in

a fragmented structure, through a series of video
projections, which articulate the space alongside
various panels featuring school textbooks and
other educational materials from Spain and Latin American countries, both current and past. In
addition to being the vehicle for transmission of
these narratives, textbooks are the spearhead of
Spains publishing sector, with a market reaching
many of the former Spanish-speaking colonies.
The result is an experimental, non-linear narrative
which, on the one hand, seeks to question both a
particular view of history as the truth and the role
played by language and images in reinforcing this
view, while also introducing new poetics and narratives critical of Spains colonial past and present
official version. The exercise thus identifies the
mechanisms used to produce History, and signals
the different strategies of complicity and dissemination found in the education system.
Video still from Margin of Error and panel of

hacked textbookss photography . From top
to down and left to right: Textbooks, panel of
hacked textbooks, Tableau Vivant, three video
stills from Textbooks, Memory 2, Chance.
LA PRODUCCIN
audiovisual se presenta de
manera fragmentada, a travs de una serie de proyecciones de vdeo que articulan el espacio, acompaadas
de varios paneles con libros de texto escolares y otros
materiales educativos del contexto espaol y distintos
pases de Latinoamrica, actuales y del pasado. Ms all
de constituir el vehculo de transmisin de estas narrativas, los libros de texto son la punta de lanza del sector
editorial en Espaa, con un mercado que abarca gran
parte de las ex-colonias de habla hispana. El resultado es una narrativa experimental no lineal, que por un
lado, busca interpelar tanto a una visin de la historia en
cuanto que verdad, como al papel del lenguaje y las
imgenes en el afianzamiento de dicha visin, al tiempo que introducir nuevas poticas y narrativas crticas
sobre la versin oficial del pasado y presente colonial
espaol. Es por lo tanto, un ejercicio que seala los mecanismos de produccin de la Historia, y las diferentes
estrategias de complicidad y difusin que encuentra en
el engranaje del dispositivo educativo.
I N S TA L L AT I O N C O M P R I S I N G
VIDEOS, WOOD AND BOOKS.
LAS DINMICAS
alta el personaje que ocupaba en el cuadro y a continuacin, desplazarse a un espacio contiguo e imaginar otro
personaje alternativo, recordar las propuestas sugeridas
por los compaeros anteriores y marcar el espacio segn este relato. La imagen inicial queda as animada por
las diferentes acciones imaginadas por los estudiantes,
abriendo de este modo lneas de fuga y posibilidades de
re-interpretacin de toda una historia visual unilateral del
desembarco. Por ltimo, Memoria 1 presenta la declamacin de un ensamblaje de textos de Bartolom de las
Casas (1542) y Rigoberta Mench (1982), que en una
confusin de tiempos histricos, demuestra la actualidad
de la violencia colonial; Memoria 2, en la que tres de los
participantes recitan el poema Escuela Colonial para Nias de la poeta jamaicana Olive Senior, cuyo relato de la
disciplina escolar colonial se superpone a las imgenes
de los estudiantes escribindose chuletas en el cuerpo
para recordar la poesa; Memoria 3, en la que otros tres
participantes intentan -a duras penas- memorizar toda la
informacin editorial de un libro de texto. El trptico explora y cuestiona el tema de la memoria como herramienta
educativa y como substrato de la historia, y como la violencia que acompaa ambas vertientes deja su impronta
en el cuerpo.
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aborda el pasado y presente colonial espaol a travs de una aproximacin crtica a los relatos consolidados en torno al Descubrimiento
y Colonizacin de Amrica, tal y como perviven en los
libros de texto escolares. El trabajo es fruto de una serie
de ejercicios de grupo con una seleccin de alumnos y
profesores de Educacin Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO)
y Bachillerato, desarrolladas en el transcurso de tres das
en un plat de grabacin y registradas en vdeo.
MARGIN OF ERROR
MARGEN DE ERROR
Fotogramas de Margen de Error y fotografa de

panel de libros intervenidos. De arriba abajo y de
izquierda a derecha: Libros de texto, panel de
libros de texto intervenidos, Tableau Vivant, tres
fotogramas de Libros de texto, Memoria 2, Azar.
STUDENTS TOOK part in two types of activities.

These included, on the one hand, exercises aimed
at unearthing ideas and depictions buried in the
subconscious by provoking situations in which notions and concepts seldom dealt with when teaching such subjects (e.g., genocide or exploitation)
were discussed; and on the other, more regimented exercises in which students were instructed to
carry out specific acts of memorisation and staging, both important tools in learning about and
representing the past. In Chance, students make
a teetotum spin until it drops, revealing the concept that must be defined on its upper face when
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say what character and action they were representing. They then moved to a nearby space and imagined an alternative character. Each student mapped
this new space by moving through it and reciting
each of the alternative characters their peers had
chosen. The initial scene was thus animated by the
different acts imagined by the students, opening up
lines of flight and reinterpretation of a unilateral visual history of the disembarkation. Finally, Memory
1 features the recitation of a textual assemblage
based on excerpts from Rigoberta Mench (1982)
and Bartolom de las Casas (1542), which merges
into a temporal confusion revealing the prevalent
colonial violence. Memory 2 shows three participants reciting the poem Colonial Girls School by
Jamaican poet Olive Senior. The students struggle
to remember it, writing crib notes on their arms and
hands, thus giving another layer of meaning to the
poems account of colonial academic discipline.
Memory 3 shows another three participants trying
to memorise a textbooks publishing information.
Overall, the triptych explores and questions memory as an educational tool and as the foundation of
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it falls. Conquest, slavery and evangelism are some

examples of topics that spark debate between the
groups more conservative and critical constituents.
In Textbooks, students are divided into three tables
with three sets of books depicting Spains colonisation of America: books from Francos era, current
publications from various Latin American countries
and former Spanish colonies, and textbooks used
today across Spains different autonomous regions.
Each table was asked to search for and compare
references, representations and mentions of traditional rubrics under which colonial history is studied; the results illustrate the different perspectives
that history is written from, and the power held by
publishing companies when defining a hegemonic
version. In parallel with this, students were instructed to freely hack the books: cut-outs, drawings
and blacked-out pages resulted from this experience. Tableau Vivant goes even further, dealing
with staging and re-enactment. Participants were
asked to represent, as if in a painting, the scene of
Columbus disembarkation in America. After collectively composing the image, each student had to
de
MARGIN OF ERROR delves into Spains colonial past and present through a critical approach
to consolidated accounts of the Discovery and
Colonisation of America, as they are reflected in
school textbooks. This work is the result of a series
of collective exercises conducted with a group of
students and teachers of Spanish Secondary Education, carried out over three days at a film set and
recorded on video.
MA R GEN
A TEXTUAL ASSEMBLAGE
B A S E D O N E X C E R P TS F R O M
BARTOLOM DE LAS CASAS ( 1552)
A N D R I G O B E R TA M E N C H ( 1 9 8 3 )
I S AW A L L T H E S E
T H I N G S I H AV E
DESCRIBED, AND
COUNTLESS
OTHERS.
8
From the first moment, they tied his hands behind his
back, and they started to drive him along with kicks.
My brother fell, he couldnt protect his face. The first
part of him to begin to bleed was his face. They took
him over rough ground where there were stones,
fallen tree trunks. He walked about two kilometres
being kicked and hit all the time. They took my brother
away, bleeding from different places. When they
were done with him, he didnt look like a person any
more. His whole face was disfigured with beating,
Among these gentle sheep, gifted by their

Maker and Creator with all the aforesaid
qualities, the Spaniards entered as soon as
they knew them, like fierce wolves, tigers
and lions which had been starving for many
days. And since forty years they have done
nothing else; nor do they otherwise at the
present day, than dismember, outrage, slay,
afflict, torment, and destroy them with new and
divers and most singular manners of cruelty,
never before seen, nor read nor heard of.
De las Casas 1552

Mench 1982
Mench 1982
En estas ovejas mansas, y de las calidades

susodichas por su Hacedor y Criador as
dotadas, entraron los espaoles, desde luego
que las conocieron, como lobos e tigres y leones
cruelsimos de muchos das hambrientos. Y otra
cosa no han hecho de cuarenta aos a esta
parte, hasta hoy, e hoy en este da lo hacen,
sino despedazarlas, matarlas, angustiarlas,
afligirlas, atormentarlas y destruirlas por las
extraas y nuevas e varias e nunca otras tales
vistas ni ledas ni odas maneras de crueldad.
Desde el primer momento le amarraron las manos

atrs, y empezaron a empujar a puros culatazos.
Caa mi hermano, no poda defender la cara.
Inmediatamente, lo que primero empez a sangrar
fue la cara de mi hermanito. Lo llevaron por los
montes donde haba piedras, troncos de rboles.
Camin como dos kilmetros a puros culatazos,
a puros golpes. Cuando ellos lo dejaron, ya no
se vea como una persona. Toda la cara la tena
desfigurada por los golpes, de las piedras, de
los troncos, de los rboles, mi hermano estaba
todo deshecho. Lo sometieron a grandes torturas,
golpes, para que l dijera dnde estaban los
guerrilleros y dnde estaba su familia.
Son eso mesmo de limpios e desocupados e vivos
entendimientos, [...] aptsimos para recebir nuestra
sancta fe catlica e ser dotados de virtuosas
costumbres, e las que menos impedimentos
tienen para esto, que Dios cri en el mundo [...]
yo he odo decir a muchos seglares espaoles de
muchos aos ac e muchas veces, no pudiendo
negar la bondad que en ellos ven: Cierto
estas gentes eran las ms bienaventuradas del
mundo si solamente conocieran a Dios.
Qu era lo que haca con la Biblia?

Porque los curas son guerrilleros Ellos
acusaban inmediatamente la Biblia como
un elemento subversivo y acusaban a los
curas y a las monjas como guerrilleros.
Mi hermano estuvo con muchos cadveres ya
muertos en el hoyo donde no aguantaba el
olor de todos los muertos. Haba ms gente
all, torturada. All donde estuvo, l haba
reconocido muchos catequistas que tambin
haban sido secuestrados en otras aldeas y que
estaban en pleno sufrimiento como l estaba.
Dos maneras generales y principales han

tenido los que all han pasado, que se llaman
cristianos, en estirpar y raer de la haz de la tierra
a aquellas miserandas naciones. La una, por
injustas, crueles, sangrientas y tirnicas guerras.
La otra, despus que han muerto todos los que
podran anhelar o sospirar o pensar en libertad,
o en salir de los tormentos que padecen,
Mi hermano estuvo ms de
diecisis das en torturas.
In the case of my brother, he was cut in different
parts of his body. They had shaved his head and you
could see cuts in his head. He had no nails. There
were no soles on his feet. The first wounded were
letting out water from the infection their bodies had
contracted. And there was the case of the woman
companion who I happened to recognise. She was
from a neighbouring village. They had cut off her
genitals. The tip of one of her breasts was missing
and the other breast was cut off. She showed teeth
De las Casas 1552
And the captain said that this was not the last of the
Being human beings, what pain those bodies must

have suffered to reach such an unrecognisable
state. The whole town cried, including the
children. I kept watching the children.
And I say this from my own knowledge of the

acts I witnessed. But I should not say than
beasts for, thanks be to God, they have treated beasts with some respect; I should say
instead like excrement on the public squares.
I could not concentrate when I

saw what was happening.
BARTOLOM DE LAS CASAS (1542)

y RIGOBERTA MENCH (1982)
....And also, those lands are so rich and felicitous, the native peoples so meek and patient,
so easy to subject, that our Spaniards have
no more consideration for them than beasts.
Ensamblaje de textos de
And this was what they had done to all the subversive
people they had caught. They put them to death by
blows. And that if this did not teach them anything,
then we would have to live through all of this.
They took up arms, but their weapons were

very weak and of little service in offense and
still less in defence. (Because, of this, the
wars of the Indians against each other are
little more than games played by children.)
And the Christians, with their horses and
swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them
He said that we native Indians allowed

ourselves to be handled by the communists,
that since nobody had told us anything we
Indians went with the communists.
From that time onward the Indians began to seek ways to throw
the Christians out of their lands.
Many shouted for help. They seemed to be half dead

when they were placed there but as their bodies
began to burn, they began to shout for help.
They usually dealt with the chieftains and

nobles in the following way: they made a grid
of rods which they placed on forked sticks,
then lashed the victims to the grid and lighted
a smouldering fire underneath, so that little by
little, as those captives screamed in despair
and torment, their souls would leave them....
They made some low wide gallows on

which the victims feet almost touched the
ground, stringing up their victims in lots of
thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and
His twelve Apostles, then set burning wood
at their feet and thus burned them alive. To
others they attached straw or wrapped their
whole bodies in straw and set them afire.
At the same time the captain wanted to convince the

town but he did not treat it well in his discourse. Then
they put them in ranks and dowsed them with petrol.
The army was ordered to set fire to each one of them.
INFINITAS
punishments, there was one more to be carried out.
y muchas otras
marks of bites in different parts of her body. This

woman companion was bitten all over. She had
no ears. Everyone had part of their tongue missing
or had their tongues cut in different places
[the other method being] to subject them to the

hardest, harshest and most terrible servitude ever
suffered by man or beast. To these two ways of infernal
tyranny, all the many and divers other ways, which
are numberless, of exterminating these people, are
reduced, resolved, or sub-ordered according to kind.
There was also a woman. First they had

raped her and then they had tortured her.
-such as all the native lords and adult males

(for it is the Spaniards custom in their wars
to spare only young boys and women)-
My brother was under torture for more than 16 days.
Two ordinary and principal methods have the

self-styled Christians, who have gone there,
employed in extirpating these miserable nations and removing them from the face of the
earth. The first being unjust, cruel, bloody, and
tyrannical warfare. And- after having slain all
those who might aspire to, or sigh for, or even
think of liberty, or consider escaping from
the torments that they are made to suffer
They spared neither the children nor the aged,

nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, but
There were already many people in that place

from early morning. Men, women, children.
Minutes later, the army was surrounding the
people who were witnessing this scene. There
were tanks, jeeps, all sorts of weapons
And the Christians, with their horses

and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties
against them. They attacked the towns..
Then my mother approached a truck to see if

she could see her son. Each of the tortured
had blows on their faces which made them look
different. My mother kept looking for my little brother,
her son that was among all of them. They put them
in lines. Some were half-dead or almost agonising
and others appeared very well. In the case of my
little brother, he had been tortured a lot and could
hardly stand. All the tortured had some things in
common: they had no nails, parts of the soles of their
feet had been cut off and they were barefooted.
I saw all these things I have described, and countless others.
We could not bear to see... We could not carry

on seeing the dead. Due not to cowardice
but to anger. It was something unbearable.
Then everybody promised to give a Christian
burial to all those tortured and burnt...
I once saw this, when there were four or

five noble slashed on grids and burning;
I seem even to recall that there were two
or three pairs of grids where others were
burning, and because they uttered such loud
screams that they disturbed the captains
sleep, he ordered them to be strangled.
And the constable, who was worse than
an executioner, did not want to obey that
order (and I know the name of that constable and know his relatives in Seville),
but instead put a stick over the victims
tongues, so they could not make a sound,
and he stirred up the fire, but not too much,
so that they roasted slowly, as he liked.
COSAS
ARRIBA
DICHAS
ripping up their bellies, cut them to pieces, as if

dealing with sheep in the slaughter house. They
laid bets as to who, with one stroke of the sword,
could split a man in two or could cut off his head
or spill out his entrails with a single stroke of the
pike. They took infants from their mothers breasts,
snatching them by the legs, and pitching them
headfirst against the crags. Others were thrown
into the rivers on their backs or snatched them by
the arms and threw them into the rivers, roaring with
laughter and saying as the babies fell into the water,
Boil there, you offspring of the devil! Other infants
they put to the sword along with their mothers
and anyone else who happened to be nearby.
What was he doing with the Bible, they wanted to know,

because the priests were guerrillas. They immediately
identified the Bible as a subversive element, and
accused priests and nuns of being guerrillas. My brother
was lying with many corpses in the hole where he could
not stand the stench of all the dead. Many people there
had been tortured. There where he was, he recognised
many catechists who had also been kidnapped in other
villages and who were suffering acutely as he was
These are people with unsoiled, agile and

alert intellects [...] very apt to receive our holy
Catholic faith and to be endowed with virtuous
customs, and the ones with fewer impediments
for this purpose that God created in this world.
I have heard many secular Spaniards who have
been here for many years say that the goodness
they see in them is undeniable: Indeed these
could be the most blessed people on Earth,
if only they could be brought to know God
from striking against the stones, the tree trunks; my

brother was completely destroyed. They inflicted
terrible tortures on him to make him tell where the
guerrilla fighters were and where his family was.
Yo vide todas las

como son todos los seores naturales y
los hombres varones (porque comnmente no dejan
en las guerras a vida sino los mozos y mujeres),
Haba tambin una mujer. La haban violado

y despus de violarla, la haban torturado.

oprimindolos con la ms dura, horrible
y spera servidumbre en que jams hombres ni
bestias pudieron ser puestas. A estas dos maneras
de tirana infernal se reducen e ser resuelven o
subalternan como a gneros todas las otras diversas
y varias de asolar aquellas gentes, que son infinitas.
Entonces mi madre se acerca al camin para
ver si reconoca a su hijo. Cada uno de los
torturados tena diferentes golpes en la cara.
O sea, llevaban diferentes caras cada uno de
ellos. Y mi mam va reconociendo al hermanito,
a su hijo, que all iba entre todos. Los pusieron
en fila. Unos, casi estaban medio muertos o
casi estaban en agona y los otros se vea que
s, los sentan muy, muy bien. El caso de mi
hermanito, estaba muy torturado y casi no se
poda parar. Todos los torturados llevaban en
comn que no tenan uas, les haban cortado
partes de las plantas de los pies. Iban descalzos.
... Con sus caballos y espadas e lanzas

comienzan a hacer matanzas e crueldades
extraas en ellos. Entraban en los pueblos,
Nios, hombres, mujeres, estaban all. Minutos
despus, el ejrcito estaba rodeando a la gente
que lo estaba presenciando. Haba aparatos,
tanquetas, jeeps, haba todas las armas.

ni dejaban nios y viejos, ni mujeres
preadas ni paridas que no desbarrigaban e hacan
pedazos, como si dieran en unos corderos metidos
en sus apriscos. Hacan apuestas sobre quin de
una cuchillada abra el hombre por medio, o le
cortaba la cabeza de un piquete o le descubra las
entraas. Tomaban las criaturas de las tetas de las
madres, por las piernas, y daban de cabeza con
ellas en las peas. Otros, daban con ellas en ros
por las espaldas, riendo e burlando, e cayendo en
el agua decan: bulls, cuerpo de tal; otras criaturas
metan a espada con las madres juntamente,
e todos cuantos delante de s hallaban
El caso de mi hermanito, estaba cortado en
diferentes partes del cuerpo. Estaba rasurado
de la cabeza y tambin cortado de la cabeza.
No tena uas. No llevaba las plantas de los
pies. Los primeros heridos echaban agua de la
infeccin que haba tenido el cuerpo. Y el caso
de la compaera la mujer que por cierto yo la
reconoc. Era de una aldea cercana a nosotros.
Le haban rasurado sus partes. No tena la punta
de uno de sus pechos y el otro lo tena cortado.
Mostraba mordidas de dientes en diferentes partes
de su cuerpo. Estaba toda mordida la compaera.
No tena orejas. Todos no llevaban parte de la
lengua o tenan partida la lengua en partes..
....Por ser aquellas tierras tan felices e tan ricas,

e las gentes tan humildes, tan pacientes y tan
fciles a sujetarlas; a las cuales no han tenido ms
respecto ni dellas han hecho ms cuenta ni estima
Para m no era posible concentrarme,
de ver que pasaba eso
(hablo con verdad por lo que s y he

visto todo el dicho tiempo),
no digo que de bestias
Uno pensaba que son humanos

(porque pluguiera a Dios que como a bestias
las hubieran tractado y estimado), pero como
y menos que estircol de las plazas.
Uno pensaba que son humanos
y qu dolor habran sentido esos cuerpos de llegar
hasta un punto irreconocible. Todo el pueblo lloraba,

hasta los nios. Yo me quedaba viendo a los nios.
Y deca el capitn, ste no es el ltimo de los
castigos, hay ms, hay una pena que pasar todava..
De aqu comenzaron los indios a buscar maneras

para echar a los cristianos de sus tierras;
Es que los indios se dejan manejar
por los comunistas.
Es que los indios,
como nadie les ha dicho nada,
por eso se van con los comunistas,
dijo.

....pusironse en armas, que son harto flacas
e de poca ofensin e resistencia y menos defensa
(por lo cual todas sus guerras son poco ms que
ac juegos de caas e aun de nios); los cristianos
con sus caballos y espadas e lanzas comienzan
a hacer matanzas e crueldades extraas en ello
Y eso hemos hecho con todos los subversivos
que hemos agarrado, pues tienen que
morirse a travs de puros golpes.
Y si eso no les ensea nada, entonces
les tocar a ustedes vivir esto.
Al mismo tiempo quera convencer al pueblo
pero lo maltrataba en su discurso.
Entonces los pusieron en orden
y les echaron gasolina.
Y el ejrcito se encarg de prenderles
fuego a cada uno de ellos
Hacan unas horcas largas, que juntasen casi

los pies a la tierra, e de trece en trece, a honor y
reverencia de Nuestro Redemptor e de los doce
apstoles, ponindoles lea e fuego, los quemaban
vivos. Otros, ataban o liaban todo el cuerpo de
paja seca pegndoles fuego, as los quemaban.
Comnmente mataban desta manera [...]: hacan

unas parrillas de varas sobre horquetas y atbanlos
en ellas y ponanles por debajo fuego manso,
para que poco a poco, dando alaridos en aquellos
tormentos, desesperados, se les salan las nimas.
Muchos pedan auxilio. Pareca que
estaban medio muertos cuando estaban all
colocados, pero cuando empezaron a arder
los cuerpos, empezaron a pedir auxilio.
Una vez vide que, teniendo en las parrillas

quemndose cuatro o cinco [indios] (y aun pienso
que haba dos o tres pares de parrillas donde
quemaban otros), y porque daban muy grandes
gritos y daban pena al capitn o le impedan el
sueo, mand que los ahogasen, y el alguacil,
que era peor que el verdugo que los quemaba
(y s cmo se llamaba y aun sus parientes
conoc en Sevilla), no quiso ahogarlos, antes
les meti con sus manos palos en las bocas
para que no sonasen y atizoles el fuego hasta
que se asaron de despacio como l quera.
No podamos ver...
No podamos seguir viendo a los muertos.
No era tanto la cobarda de no verlos,
sino que era una clera.
Era algo que no se poda soportar.
Entonces, toda la gente prometi
darle sepultura cristiana
a todos esos torturados y muertos
Yo vide todas las cosas arriba dichas

y muchas otras infinitas.
Elizabeth Burgos: Me llamo Rigoberta Mench y as

naci mi consciencia, Mxico: Siglo XXI Editores, 2005
Bartolom de las Casas: Brevsima relacin de la
destruccin de las Indias, Madrid: Ed. Ctedra, 2011
SWIFTS are quite unique birds. They live in flocks that never
cease to fly, not even when asleep; as a matter of fact, they
may die if they cannot regain flight. Constant swarm flying,
and how to lift off into air when we have been collectively
brought below ground level, are two of guiding metaphors
for the project Swift / Film / Law. As though in a space-time
labyrinth, the spectator delves into a continuum of multiple
subjective and historical connections between places, moments and situations, seemingly distant from each other but
actually entwined by profound affinities. Thus, testimonies on
evictions in present day Spain are set in dialogue with the
expropriation of communal lands in the early days of English
capitalism in the 16th century; the 2014 riots at Ferguson
and the 2006 riots in Paris are framed by Jim Crows long
shadow; Spains 1956 Vagrancy Act comes back to life in the
current Spanish governments draft bill on so-called Civic
Safety; and douard Glissants right to opacity accompanies the flight of swifts. A synchronic vision of time proving
that the past has not truly ceased to pass, and the future is
not the as-yet-to-come, but has always already been here.
to be piled up in a linear sequence, which would dilute their

content, but rather to enhance their expression and provisional nature in the constellation of moments they conform.
here by Orson Welles in his 1963 film The Process, then

re-read by an unidentified voice). In The Room (a cubicle
placed outside any clear bounds of time and space) various subjects repeat a series of disconcerting actions. A
scaffolding structure offers viewers a privileged view of the
spatial layout of the meta-film: this is the vantage point from
which we can scrutinise the spotlights, and observe the
laws backstage.
The criminalisation of protest is a theme running throughout the project. This repressive strategy (which has mutated into ever-intensifying regimes of pre-emptive control in
recent times) rests on an apparatus of visual verification
that fixes and condenses the wide imaginary associated
with criminality to fit certain recognisable features of subjective identity, and more specifically, the face. The hoods,
sweatshirts, masks and balaclavas at the Diaporama become ambivalent symbols, garments that may cause the
wearer to be targeted or profiled by law enforcers, or may
become instruments of resistance and concealment in their
own right. A constellation of monitors and images shows a
series of parades of resistant bodies, working as a counter-shot to the regulation of gatherings and demonstrations
in public spaces dictated by a host of juridical norms.
These sets of images and Counter-parades are not meant
I N S TA L L AT I O N C O M P R I S I N G
DIVERSE STRUCTURES
F E AT U R I N G V I D E O S , W O O D ,
P H O T O G R A P H S , O B J E C TS
AND SOUND.
2014
SWIFT
FILM
L AW
A PROLOGUE-AREA leads the viewer to the lengthy stretch

of the income parade, an update of the visual metaphor
coined in 1971 by economist Jan Pen, which attests to the
magnitude and violence of economic inequality. In Pens
parade, humanity marches in line for an hour in order of
height, determined proportionally by income. The parade

clearly illustrates the obscene divide between the vast
majority of the population, barely noticeable -if not downright invisible- until the march nears its end, and the giants
that appear during the last few minutes. Dispossession,
which historically seemed to be limited to specific groups,
spreads like an oil stain over 99% of humankind, as depicted in the script of this expanded film through excerpts from
legal texts, personal testimonies and historical accounts,
from times past and present. As the scripts narrative journeys through the installation, it becomes embodied through
the members of Magnetic Declination at the Palindroptic:
a 360 audiovisual dispositif in the shape of a panopticon,
devised to allow cross-temporal readings through images
and speech acts that link contexts from different epochs.
The script also describes several absurd or contradictory,
Catch-22 situations, obeying the twisted logic of a double bind: a tangle of incompatible imperatives where the
subject is always already -and inexorably- at fault, which
constitute a commonplace in the structure and application
of the law. A table of disproportionate height (Before the
Laws deak) blocks access to a pile of law books placed on
top of it, thereby enacting the logic of the double bind as
described in Franz Kafkas parable Before the Law (read
WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be expendable today, and how does
the legal system bolster and enshrine exclusion? This is the
twofold question inspiring Swift / Film / Law, an installation
conceived as an expanded film that examines how modern-day dispossession the deprivation of our most basic
rights is reinforced by legal mechanisms. Within the calculations of neo-liberal capitalism, ever-growing sectors of
humankind are becoming increasingly superfluous. With
no role to play in terms of value or credit, they have been
turned into a surplus of disposable lives, to be managed
in an ever more repressive manner through legal and administrative mechanisms that seek to pre-empt, neutralise
or reduce to invisibility any oppositional politics involving
spheres of protest and citizen participation. In Swift / Film
/ Law, the logic of this domain of exclusion is mapped by
a complex narrative field, built as an expanded cinematic
structure that combines objects and spaces with moving
images within the meta-frames of an installation-as-film.
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Vistas generales de las obras e imgenes

asociadas al proyecto. De arriba abajo y de
izquierda a derecha: Mesa Ante la Ley, detalle
del desfile de Jan Pen, dibujo del diario de
Kafka, imagen de archivo de la manifestacin
de los trabajadores sanitarios de Memphis de
1968 usada en Contra-Desfiles, Palindrptico,
La Habitacin, Prlogo, imagen de Diaporama,
grfica del desfile de los salarios de Jan Pen.
General views of the works and associated

images to the project. From top to down and left
to right: Before the Laws Desk, detail from Jan
Pens parade, drawing from Kafkas diary, archive
image from Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
of 1968 used in Counter-Parades, Palindroptic,
The Room, Prologue, image from Diaporama,
info graphic from Jan Pens income parade.
VENCEJO
FILM
LEY
2014
Instalacin compuesta por diversas estructuras de
VDEO, MADERA, FOTOGRAFAS,

OBJETOS Y SONIDO.
QU SIGNIFICA
ser prescindible hoy, y cmo

produce el aparato legal la exclusin? Esta es la doble
pregunta que anima Vencejo / Film / Ley, una instalacin
concebida como una pelcula expandida que examina la
desposesin contempornea -la privacin de los ms bsicos derechos- producida por los mecanismos de la ley.
Sectores cada vez mayores de la humanidad se
han vuelto enteramente inexplotables y sin crdito para
el clculo neoliberal, convirtindose en un excedente de
vidas desechables gestionado de forma cada vez mas
represiva, mediante dispositivos jurdicos que buscan
invisibilizar, neutralizar y restringir el margen de protesta de la ciudadana. Vencejo / Film / Ley cartografa
como se produce legalmente la exclusin a travs de
un campo narrativo construido como una estructura cinematogrfica expandida, donde objetos y espacios se
combinan con imgenes en movimiento para formar los
meta-fotogramas de una pelcula-instalacin.
UN PRLOGO
conduce a un largo desfile de los

salarios, una actualizacin de la metfora visual ideada
en 1971 por el economista Jan Pen que da cuenta de
la magnitud y la violencia de la desigualdad econmica.
En l la humanidad desfila durante una hora en orden
segn su estatura, que est proporcionalmente determinada por sus ingresos. El desfile deja patente la brecha
que opera entre la gran mayora de la poblacin, apenas
perceptible hasta el final de la marcha o directamente invisible, que contrasta de manera obscena con los gigantes que aparecen en los ltimos minutos. La condicin
de desposesin, que pareca histricamente confinada
a colectivos especficos, se extiende como una mancha
de aceite por el 99%, como tambin recoge el guin de
esta pelcula expandida, construido a partir de fragmentos de legislaciones, testimonios y relatos, histricos y
contemporneos. El guin recorre la instalacin y toma
cuerpo recitado por los miembros de Declinacin Magntica en el Palindrptico, un dispositivo audiovisual de
360 en forma de panptico que permite lecturas temporales cruzadas a travs de voces e imgenes que conectan diferentes momentos, presentes y pasados. El guin
describe tambin situaciones contradictorias, absurdas,
que hacen referencia al concepto del doble vnculo: una
relacin de contradiccin entre trminos, que produce
situaciones incomprensibles que funcionan a modo de
trampa, y que constituye un lugar comn en la aplicacin
de la ley. Esta lgica del doble vnculo que describe Franz
Kafka en la parbola Ante la ley (aqu leda por Orson
Welles en su film de 1963 El Proceso, a su vez re-ledo
por una voz no identificada) queda aqu patente en una
mesa (Mesa Ante la Ley) cuyas patas de tamao desproporcionado niegan el acceso a una pila de libros de
jurisprudencia. En La Habitacin, un cubiculo atemporal y
difcil de definir en la que varios sujetos repiten una serie
de acciones desconcertantes. Un andamio se alza por
encima ofreciendo un punto de vista privilegiado sobre la
estructura de la pelcula: este es el mirador desde el cual
se aprecian los focos y los bastidores de la ley.
La criminalizacin de la protesta como dispositivo
atraviesa el proyecto desde varios lugares. Este fenmeno, que no ha hecho sino acuciarse en los ltimos tiempos, descansa sobre un aparato de verificacin visual,
que fija y reduce todo un imaginario de peligrosidad a
ciertos elementos relacionados con la identidad, y ms
especficamente, con el rostro. Capuchas, sudaderas,
mscaras o pasamontaas de Diaporama se convierten
as en smbolos ambivalentes, siendo identificados tanto
como targets como con prendas de ocultacin y resistencia. Una constelacin de monitores e imgenes recoge
una serie de desfiles o reuniones de cuerpos resistentes, que funcionan como contra-plano a la regulacin de
concentraciones de personas en el espacio pblico que
instauran diferentes legislaciones. La intencin de esta
colecciones de imgenes y Contra-desfiles no es apilarlas en una secuencia lineal que diluya su contenido, sino
entenderlas como una constelacin de momentos en la
que su gesto y provisionalidad quedan potenciados.
EL VENCEJO
es un ave singular, que vive en bandada y no cesa nunca de volar, ni siquiera dormido; de
hecho, muere si no puede remontar el vuelo. La cuestin
de cmo alzar el vuelo cundo estamos por debajo del
suelo y la idea del vuelo constante en multitud operan
como metfora para el proyecto de Vencejo / Film / Ley.
Como si de un laberinto espacio-temporal se tratara, el
espectador se adentra en un territorio de conexiones
mltiples, subjetivas e histricas, que conectan lugares,
instantes y coyunturas en apariencia remotos, pero profundamente afines entre s. De este modo, testimonios
de desahucios actuales en Espaa dialogan con las
expropiacin de las tierras comunales inglesas en los
inicios del capitalismo del siglo XVI; los disturbios de
Ferguson del verano de 2014 o los de Pars en 2006
encuentran eco en las leyes de segregacin racial denominadas Jim Crow; la ley de vagos y maleantes de
1956 da la mano al ante-proyecto de ley de seguridad
ciudadana del actual Gobierno de Espaa; el derecho a
la opacidad de douard Glissant acompaa el vuelo de
los vencejos. Un tiempo sincrnico que demuestra que
el pasado no ha pasado y que el futuro ya esta aqu.
15 m
8,92 m
284,37 m
6,4 m
1,18 m
1,73 m
3m
25%
50%
65%
de la poblacin ha desfilado
(y estn por debajo de los 700 )
salario medio espaol

(1700 en 2012)
75%
85%
50 min.
30 min.
40 min.
0,45 m
0%
0 min.
15 min.
0,9 m
en los ltimos
minutos del desfile
apareceran una
serie de gigantes
altsimos que
representaran los
grandes sueldos del
pas, y en algunos
casos solo se vera
un zapato o un
trozo de pierna
97%
99% 100%
60 min.
45 min.
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NO tengan
LEONES
que
DECLINACIN MAGNTICA
HISTORIADORES...
los
HASTA
GU I N
PALINDRPTICO
tiene problemas de salud y por decir eso a mi tambin

detuvieron.
Est clarsimo que es una estrategia del Gobierno para
generar miedo. Quieren criminalizar el derecho de huelga,
est muy relacionado con la ley mordaza. Hay ms de
260 procesados, algunos por lo penal como yo. Para seis
compaeros ya hay sentencia de crcel. Los sindicatos
han pedido el indulto de todos. La peticin de indulto al
Gobierno hace un llamamiento al sentido comn que dice
que no pueden proteger un derecho mientras que un cdigo penal establece penas para la defensa de este derecho.
Eso es un sin sentido.
FINAL CMARA: Espalda que enlaza
con principio del video.
MONITOR 2.
CORTAR POR DELANTE /CATCH
22/ JIM CROW / MORDAZA
INICIO CMARA: Dentro de habitacin.
Desde espalda.
AIMAR Prescindible es aquello que se puede cortar, separar o apartar por anticipado, porque se prev que no
es necesario. Cortar por delante. Evitar que tome lugar
un suceso innecesario.
Una parte de las leyes previene que se cometa un delito o una violacin de derechos. El problema es cuando
las leyes se vuelven represivas, cuando previenen algo
que es un derecho fundamental o estn preparadas para
castigar antes de que ocurra un acto, poniendo una barrera por delante, corta por delante a un grupo determinado, al que se le impide acceder a derechos civiles
e individuales
TRANSICIN CMARA: A espalda.
Desde espalda.
MONITOR 1.
PRESCINDIBLES / CORTAR POR DELANTE
Desde espalda.
DIEGO Prescindible: innecesario, sustituible, superfluo,
accesorio.
Estamos muy abajo, casi bajo el suelo, aqu es imposible

remontar. Mi abuelo siempre me contaba la historia de los
vencejos. Los vencejos se pasan la vida volando, incluso
cuando duermen. Nunca pueden posarse en el suelo, si
lo hacen, tal vez por error, no tienen impulso para remontar el vuelo, porque para poder volar, primero se lanzan
hacia abajo para luego subir. [IMAGEN VENCEJOS]
Movimiento hacia delante de la mano con foto
Cmo sera remontar el vuelo cuando ya ests en el
suelo o incluso bajo el suelo?
Mi etiqueta ahora ya no es contable, ni madre de familia,
ni catalana, mi etiqueta ahora es parada y desahuciada, innecesaria para la sociedad, no til.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A imagen de vencejos.
AIMAR Los mecanismos para deshacerse de masas de

poblacin molestas al orden establecido siempre se
apoyan en el aparato legal.
En el siglo XVI se cercan [IMAGEN TIERRAS
COMUNALES] y se expropian las tierras comunales en
Inglaterra. Se suprime el sistema de caridad medieval,
y se crea un nuevo cdigo criminal y laboral. La tierra y
el trabajo se convierten en mercancas. De ello resultan
por una parte la propiedad privada, y por otra, la produccin de grandes masas de desposedos, [IMAGEN
SOLDADO IRLANDS] proscritos, errantes, mendigos,

Desde imagen vencejos. Movimiento
hacia atrs mano con foto.
SALLY Hasta que los leones no tengan historiadores los
relatos de la caza siempre sern glorificados
Prescindible viene de prescindere, y es aquello que se
puede cortar, separar o apartar por anticipado, porque
se prev que no es necesario. Tambin es aquello que
se puede abstraer, hacer caso omiso, pasar en silencio,
ignorar. Puede aplicarse tanto a objetos como a sujetos.
Qu significa, hoy, ser una persona prescindible?
Dentro de la lgica neo-liberal que nos gobierna, alguien
prescindible es alguien que ya no puede ser explotado,
alguien cuyos recursos, tanto psquicos como fsicos,
estn agotados. Prescindible entonces significa
inexplotable, intil, redundante, sobrante.
TRANSICIN CMARA: espalda.
Desde espalda.
EDUARDO Soy una desahuciada. Pero an puedo hablar. Recibo una demanda del Juzgado de Primera Instancia. El nombre del demandante y de la procuradora
estn escritos en maysculas y el mo, en minsculas.
El desahucio comenz cuando me despidieron del trabajo. Un jueves, a las siete menos veinticinco.
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Desde espalda.
SILVIA El primer ministro portugus Passos Coelho anim a los profesores portugueses a emigrar, s, fuera
hay trabajo: Querendo manter-se sobretudo como professores, podem olhar para todo o mercado da lngua
portuguesa e encontrar a uma alternativa. Em Angola e
no s. O Brasil tem tambm uma grande necessidade
ao nvel do ensino bsico e secundrio, dijo en 2011.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A puerta abierta
que alguien cierra y se va a negro.
Desde puerta de la habitacin..
SALLY Vencejo / Bandada / Multitud / Multitud todos
prescindibles
Desde espalda.
frailes itinerantes, pcaros en definitiva, todas aquellas

personas nmadas o fuera del nuevo orden del trabajo
remunerado y la nueva ciencia, que como no tienen acceso a los recursos que las tierras comunales ofrecan,
se convierten en masas flotantes de gente que el nuevo cdigo criminaliz: ladrones, vagabundos, o brujas.
Como castigo y estrategia para mantener la higiene domstica, se les enviaba a las colonias, entendidas como
crceles sin muros...
TRANSICIN CMARA: A dibujo de
Kafka puerta de la ley en pared.
INICIO CMARA: Dentro de habitacin. Desde
dibujo Kafka puerta de la ley en pared.
JULIA ramos un piquete muy pacfico. La Polica carg
de forma desmedida, entonces se cay un compaero, le
detuvieron y yo me acerqu para decir no os lo llevis,
SILVIA Soy un piloto de bombardero de las fuerzas areas

estadounidenses y tengo miedo a volar, y miedo a que me
maten. Me gustara solicitar una baja. Hablo con el mdico
que es quien me tendra que dar el diagnstico de enfermedad mental para excusarme del servicio. El mdico
me confirma que la nica manera de conseguir una baja
sera estar diagnosticado como loco, pero que el hecho
de pedir una baja es un hecho racional. Si pides la baja
entonces no ests loco, por tanto no te puedo dar la baja.
Esto es lo que se llama doble vnculo (double bind) o
tambin trampa 22.
INICIO CMARA: Fuera de habitacin,
cerca. Desde espalda.
EDUARDO Esto es lo que se llama doble vnculo (double bind) o tambin trampa 22.
Me detuvieron por grabar en una manifestacin, me golpearon la cabeza mientras me acusaban de grabar ilegalmente
a un polica. Luego, cuando llego al juicio me dicen: tiene
alguna imagen que demuestre que le ha golpeado un agente? Les respondo que precisamente no pude grabar y que
me abrieron la cabeza por intentarlo. Entonces la leyresponde, como no tiene pruebas y un polica tiene presuncin de
veracidad, usted es culpable.
Me sent como en esa peli; en la que Anthony Perkins
es el acusado y entra en una sala del tribunal vaca,
donde la ley se representaba a travs de unos libros
colocados en una mesa muy alta. Perkins se atreve a
tocarlos aunque sepa que son libros de derecho y las
leyes le estn prohibidas. Quieren que sea condenado
en la ignorancia.
Como no me dejan sacar la cmara no puedo demostrar
que me han abierto la cabeza por sacar la cmara. Reduccin al absurdo.

TRANSICIN CMARA: a pared de habitacin,
caminar en lnea recta hasta fundir, con la
idea de atravesar pared (desde blanco).
INICIO CMARA: Dentro de habitacin. Desde
plano general atraviesa la pared en lnea recta.
JUAN La clusula del abuelo forma parte del conjunto de leyes llamadas Jim Crow y es un claro ejemplo de
lo que significa doble vnculo.
Las llamadas Leyes de Jim Crow eran un conjunto de
leyes y jurisprudencia a nivel local estatal y federal, que
durante casi 90 aos establecieron un sistema de apartheid y segregacin racial. Su lema era iguales pero
separados. La clusula del abuelo se invent para
evitar que la poblacin negra pudiera votar, sin decirlo de forma explcita, ya que era ilegal. La ley estableca que no podas votar si eras analfabeto, salvo todos
aquellos que tuvieran abuelos con derecho a voto antes
de 1861. [IMAGEN JIM CROW] De esta forma los blan-
cos analfabetos pudieron seguir votando, mientras que

los negros que en esa fecha no posean tierras ni haban
sido alfabetizados al ser esclavos, eran claramente discriminados.
TRANSICIN CMARA:
A imagen Jim Crow.
Desde imagen Jim Crow. Movimiento
de mano hacia atrs con la foto.
SALLY Conclusin: la ley, mediante un doble vnculo
destrua el derecho: la poblacin negra no poda votar. En pleno 2014 hay 5,8 millones de estadounidenses
afectados por una prohibicin de votar debido a su condena pasada o actual.
Mis padres nunca explicaron porque haba que llevar siempre una lata en el coche. No haca falta, pues desde muy
pequeos conocamos la respuesta a preguntas nunca
formuladas. El viejo Jim Crow no permita que usramos
los baos cuando parbamos a echar gasolina; era demasiado peligroso salir del coche y usar los baos. Slo
se paraba a echar gasolina. Rpido. No era seguro hacer
nada ms. Mear en esa lata era tan normal como tomar la
autopista hacia Nashville donde el viejoJim Crow campaba a sus anchas.
INICIO CMARA: Fuera de habitacin.
Desde espalda.
JULIA Si me pides permiso para hacer una manifestacin como ciudadano democrtico te digo que no, pero
si no me lo pides, te castigo; te exijo unos requisitos
pero no te dejo cumplirlos. Conclusin: la ley, mediante
un doble vnculo, destruye el derecho: la ciudadana
en una llamada democracia no puede manifestarse
pese a ser uno de sus derechos fundamentales.
Constatamos que la idea del doble vnculo se repite
histricamente. Las leyes Jim Crow y el proyecto de

laLeyde Seguridad Ciudadana del actual gobierno de Espaa son mecanismos perversos que retuercen la lgica.
Final CMARA: A espalda para
que enlace con principio.
MONITOR 3. RESTO=LINQUO.
DELINCUENTE. Ley mordaza
INICIO CMARA: Fuera de la habitacin.
Desde espalda.
AIMAR La palabra prescindible tambin significa resto y viene del griego leipo o del latn linquo (no s
cmo pronunciarlo), de ah surgen palabras de significado diferente entre s como reliquia o delincuente.
Delincuency en ingls, aparte de significar criminalidad,
designa tambin al que tiene una deuda pendiente. Delincuencia y deuda se acercan cada vez ms.
Me metieron en la crcel Modelo de Barcelona por travesti, por la ley de peligrosidad social. [IMAGEN FICHA POLICIAL DE SILVIA REYES. SUBE LA FOTO Y LA BAJA]
All lo pas fatal. Luego fui a Carabanchel en Madrid. ramos hasta 38 transexuales, y durante los traslados nos
ponan en celdas aisladas, para evitar los. Haba presos
que saltaban tapias de cinco metros para estar con nosotras. En Badajoz estbamos todas juntas con los hombres
y tambin con los ladrones.
Sal de prisin el ao en que muri Franco. El juez nos deca
que era peor el travestismo que alquilar el cuerpo, pero tambin que la prostitucin transexual no estaba contemplada
en el Cdigo Penal y que nos detena por ir con las blusitas
de flores y los pantalones acampanados.
INICIO CMARA: Dentro de la habitacin.
Desde espalda.
JULIA Si pienso en el proyecto de Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana del Gobierno de Espaa de 2014 y en alguno
de sus antecedentes, como la Ley sobre Peligrosidad y
Rehabilitacin Social de 1970, aparece un juego de antnimos entre ambos ttulos, aunque su aplicacin y sus
consecuencias resultan semejantes en algunos aspectos.
La palabra peligrosidad se transforma en seguridad.
Lo peligroso se transforma en seguro. Las leyes pasan
tericamente de perseguir al peligroso a proteger al
ciudadano. A primera vista, parece reconfortante.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A pared.
Desde pared.
SALLY El gobierno de Castilla La Mancha ensaya presin contra protestas y manifestaciones de funcionarios.
Los profesionales de la salud son multados por hacerlo
con las batas blancas.
29 Agosto 2016. Profesores, jueces, mdicos, profesionales de la salud, carteros, bomberos y estudiantes, son
juzgados por manifestarse.
La Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana ha sido formulada a la
luz de las rebeliones, para sofocarlas, como si fueran un
incendio en un bosque.
Quien se opusiera al rgimen franquista, poda ser considerado peligroso moral o socialmente, ahora los que se
oponen a travs del ejercicio de sus derechos, son considerados delincuentes.[IMAGEN BATAS BLANCAS]

INICIO CMARA: Fuera de habitacin. Relato igual
que estaba en el monitor anterior. Desde espalda.
EDUARDO Como no me dejan sacar la cmara no puedo demostrar que me han abierto la cabeza por sacar
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la cmara Y me sancionan con una cantidad que no

puedo pagar, y me declaro insolvente, porque soy insolvente. Al no poder pagar la sancin finalmente voy a la
crcel. Mis datos ahora circularn libremente a travs
de empresas privadas de proteccin de datos. Me he
convertido en delincuente.
TRANSICIN CMARA:
A una grieta del cuarto exterior.
JUAN En la propuesta de Ley de seguridad Ciudadana

del Gobierno de Espaa de 2014, la soberana es un
concepto antnimo al de la Constitucin Francesa de
1793: Si el gobierno viola los derechos del pueblo no
puedes practicar la insurreccin. La insurreccin es
ahora un delito cuando entonces era un derecho.
INICIO CMARA: Fuera de la

habitacin. Desde la grieta.
DIEGO Lo que ms teman los propietarios de las plantaciones entre los siglos XV y XIX era que, de repente,
una noche, los esclavos se uniesen y prendiesen fuego
la plantacin. [IMAGEN PLANTACIN]
La plantacin no era solo una estructura econmica -regida por el paternalismo, la violacin y la violencia directa-, sino tambin una estructura psquica de orden paranoico, donde el miedo se auto-reproduca en un ciclo
infernal, al que ni amo ni esclavo podan poner un fin o
encontrar una salida. Como dice un replicante en Blade
Runner, ser esclavo consiste en vivir en el miedo. Ese
mecanismo de miedo se basaba en la fabulacin sobre
la que se haba construido el concepto de raza.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A imagen plantacin.
INICIO CMARA: Fuera de la habitacin.
Desde imagen plantacin.
JUAN El esclavismo moderno, capitalista, requera una
categora biopoltica para permitir deshumanizar a grupos tnicos enteros, para poder justificar el dominio y el
incremento despiadado de la explotacin que los mercados exigan.
Lo racial separa a la humanidad entre los que deberan
vivir y los que pueden ser sumidos en la indiferencia. La
raza es demasiado til como para deshacerse de ella.
FINAL CMARA: A espalda.
MONITOR 4. RELIQUIA
(Arqueologa, Constitucin 1793)
INICIO CMARA: Dentro de habitacin. Desde de
blanco de la foto al revs que inicialmente no se ve.
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INICIO CMARA: Fuera de habitacin. Desde

la foto de declinacin magntica en el suelo.
JOSE Existe otra propuesta: reclamar el derecho a la
opacidad. No la opacidad como cerrazn, sino como
apertura, que no reduce la existencia, en la que no se
me vea ni se me controle 24h, en contra de la transpa-

Desde espalda.
DIEGO Pero tambin existen reliquias que se prefieren
olvidar, borrar, o no desenterrar. Es el lado sucio de la
historia, de la ley.
Los antecedentes de la ley se convierten en reliquias,
en marcos de fotos de familia en una pared, en los que
ya nadie reconoce quin es el abuelo dequin. Siempre
me han gustado las genealogas. Se podra hacer un
rbol genealgico de una ley.
INICIO CMARA: Desde espalda.
SILVIA Las leyes tnicas de Nuremberg ponen en vergenza a la
Espaa de la Inquisicin (por las leyes de pureza racial espaolas
del siglo XVI) y tambin estn inspiradas en leyes americanas
como la Ley de Integridad Racial de 1924 donde incluyeron la
regla de una gota de sangre basta para etiquetar socialmente
como negro a personas que tuvieran alguna ascendencia africana, una nica gotita de sangre. El rgimen nazi se inspiraba en
el colonialismo ingls y en las leyes americanas
A Hitler le encantaban las pelculas coloniales de los
ingleses en la India, eran sus favoritas. Franco utilizaba
como instrumento de represin tcticas aprendidas durante la guerras coloniales en el norte de frica.
Desde espalda.
DIEGO Si pienso en maana, no s de qu estoy hablando, porque nuestro futuro no es futuro, ya est aqu,
distribuido de manera desigual. Todos esos fragmentos,
por ejemplo, una blusita de flores, los pantalones acampanados, una capucha, un libro son reliquias/restos
dispersos en una arqueologa casi oculta, que podra reconstruirse. No s quien deca que sera bonito [IMAGEN
NAVE ESPACIAL] mirar lo que ya tienes alrededor como
si fueran las ruinas del futuro, as yo podra estar en una
constante ficcin futurista, con un pie entre dos tiempos.
La represin genera reliquias, cabezas de animal en las
paredes, nos convierte atodosen restos arqueolgicos.
FINAL CMARA: A foto de nave espacial.
MONITOR 5. FICCION DE FUTURO.
JOSE Las palabras como reliquia o delincuente vienen

de leipo (resto en griego), o linquo en latn. Una reliquia a veces es algo que ha estado escondido mucho
tiempo, un vestigio del pasado, algo que pudo quedar
enterrado y hay que desenterrar.
La Constitucin Francesa de 1793 est oculta y visible al mismo tiempo. Fue quiz la constitucin ms
democrtica de la historia. El artculo nmero 35 dice:
Cuando el gobierno viola los derechos del pueblo, la
insurreccin es, para el pueblo y para cada una de
sus partes, el ms sagrado de los derechos y el ms
indispensable de los deberes.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A cortina.
INICIO CMARA: Sale de la cortina.
SILVIA El futuro ya est aqu, solo que est distribuido

desigualmente (William Gibson).
Olvidemos la brjula y el mapa, salgamos a la calle, respiremos el aroma del viento para saber de dnde viene.
Bagdad, Pars, Ro, New Orleans tienen barrios que son
Norte y barrios que son Sur. Un barrio, una calle cualquiera o incluso una ciudad completa puede desaparecer de sbito y reaparecer en otro continente que sea
ms Sur o ms Norte casi de la noche a la maana.
Puede suceder con pases enteros: Espaa y Grecia
eran Norte y ahora son Sur, han cambiado de posicin
en la corteza terrestre.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A foto de
declinacin magntica del suelo.

Desde espalda.
ACCIN: Ir lanzando fotos de
diaporama identidad.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A negro de columna exterior.

Desde espalda. Lmpara encendida.
SALLY La condicin humana como la conocamos ha
muerto. Nos han convertido en ensamblajes precarios.
Todos, cualquiera de nosotros, podemos convertirnos,
de un da a otro, en superfluos.
Volverse animal para ser una bandada o una multitud en
vuelo. El vencejo no cesa nunca de volar, ni siquiera dormidoy recorre el camino de Europa a frica y de frica a
Europa. Muere si no puede remontar el vuelo.
TRANSICIN CMARA:
A lmpara hasta ir a blanco.
INICIO CMARA:
Desde negro de columna exterior.
SILVIA 1876-1965 Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow era un
arquetipo caricaturesco que serva para ridiculizar a la
poblacin negra en el sur de los Estados Unidos. las
llamadas Leyes Jim Crow, fueron establecidas para
anular los efectos de la emancipacin de los esclavos
en 1865, y eran un vasto corpus de disposiciones legales y administrativas e interpretaciones que funcionaban
a nivel local, estatal y federal.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A negro de columna exterior.
INICIO CMARA: Fuera de habitacin. Foco

que alumbra. Desde blanco del foco.
EDUARDO En los cinco aos que estuve en la crcel
tuve mucho tiempo para pensar, leer y recordar. Record
la escena de la pelcula El Proceso, en la que Anthony
Perkins visita el estudio de Titorelli, un artista especializado en retratos de jueces. El estudio est construido con
tablones, y el artista le dice algo as como que la representacin de la ley se da siempre entre bastidores.
El foro en Roma y Grecia es el espacio del teatro, el de la
ley, el de los juicios y asambleas, todo se representa en
pblico, bajo el sol mediterrneo, bajo la luz.
rencia de los modelos occidentales impuestos. Yo quiero tener derecho a la opacidad, es decir, que no me sea
necesario explicar ni entender lo que soy, que pueda
sorprenderme de m mismo. Derecho a ser diferente, y
que eso se entienda como se vive una fiesta.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A espalda
Desde espalda.
JUAN Fui detenida por rodear el Congreso, hace 4 aos
en 2015,en el 2 aniversario del 25S, poco antes de que
entrara en vigor la Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana. Las concentraciones ante el Congreso, el Parlamento
TRANSICIN CMARA: A grieta de habitacin mientras entra Julia y contina. Plano secuencia seguido
JULIA son faltas graves si se considera que perturban
gravemente la seguridad ciudadana. Es decir, casi siempre, porque la ley est sujeta a interpretacin. Ahora ya no
puedes rodear el Congreso.
CMARA frena bruscamente.
No hay presente, hay un aqu y un ahora, de hecho hay
muchos pero estn constituidos por fragmentos de las
memorias, amnesias, lamentaciones, narraciones, represiones y voces que llamabas pasado, y los deseos,
temores, planes y promesas que llamabas futuro -de
modo que no hay presente sino sombras del futuro y
del pasado, como espectros, ni dentro ni fuera de ti.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A espalda. La cmara
slo arranca para acercarse a la transicin.
Se apaga el foco. Y el cmara se va acercando

al panel negro de la puerta, mientras Diego
se coloca en el lugar de Eduardo.
Sol se convirti en una anfiteatro pblico antes de que
lo llenaran de terrazas y le dieran nombre de compaa
de telfonos.
Seguimos fuera y la cmara contina hasta
acercarse a Diego y seguir rodeando.
DIEGO Pienso en mi con 25 aos y con la cmara en
la calle; Perkins acude al artista, experto autodidacta en
leyes, y busca consejo sobre su juicio, el artista le dice
que tambin en el plano de la representacin se puede
producir un saber en torno a la ley e intervenir en ella.
Con la cmara yo tambin pude producir un saber e intervenir en la ley. Lo s ahora, desde el futuro.
FINAL CMARA: A espalda
INICIO CMARA: Dentro de

habitacin. Desde espalda.
JOSE 1924 Racial Integrity Act/Sterilization Act
(Commonwealth of Virginia SB219, SB281)
La Ley SB219 del Estado de Virginia hizo obligatorio
definir oficialmente la raza de todo individuo nacido en
dicho estado, e incluir el dato en su partida de nacimiento. La clasificacin contemplaba slo dos categoras:
blancos y de color (que eran todos los dems). De
acuerdo con el principio llamado one drop rule (una
gota de sangre basta) cualquier ascendencia no-europea, por remota que fuera, clasificaba inmediatamente al sujeto como de color (aunque algunas familias
blancas influyentes consiguieron que se les aplicase la
llamada excepcin de Pocahontas, permitindoseles
hasta 1/16 de ascendencia india).
JUAN Esta ley ampli el impacto de la prohibicin que
impeda todo matrimonio inter-racial. Junto con la Ley de
Esterilizacin aprobada al mismo tiempo, formaba parte
de un vasto plan para poner en prctica las ideas de
eugenesia cientfica de Harry Laughlin. Estas mismas
leyes sirvieron de inspiracin a las leyes de pureza racial
establecidas por los Nazis en Alemania en 1933. Las
leyes SB219 y SB281 de Virginia no fueron completamente derogadas hasta 1979.
INICIO CMARA: Desde espalda. Fuera.
MONITOR 6.
INICIO CMARA: Fuera de habitacin
cmara desde lejos.

AIMAR Fue en otoo de 2012. La polica nos pidi los papeles
en la estacin de autobuses, a otras dos chicas extranjeras y a
mi. Iban vestidos de civiles. Me llevaron a un centro de internamiento, le ped a la seora donde trabajo que me trajera champ
y un libro. Estuve all metida tres meses y finalmente me repatriaron a Paraguay. Estoy ahorrando para irme a trabajar a Brasil.
Desde espalda, filma la habitacin.
SILVIA Sal a la calle y vuelve a mirar. Tu ciudad sigue
al Norte y al Sur de s misma. Esa calle, esa esquina,
estn en tu ciudad y en la sombra de otra ciudad. Es
la sincronicidad de tu ciudad, donde conviven distintos
regmenes de espacio-tiempo entrecruzados. El aqu no
es simplemente aqu y el ahora es mucho ms que ahora.
Entrar en el metro en Madrid y salir a la superficie en
Nueva Orleans.
INICIO CMARA: Fuera de habitacin,

ms cerca. Desde negro de columna.
EDUARDODurante casi 90 aos establecieron un sistema de apartheid y segregacin racial, suprimiendo los
derechos civiles de los afro-americanos, e impidindoles
especialmente el ejercicio del derecho al voto. La mayora de estas disposiciones fueron revocadas a partir de
1965, si bien siguen existiendo en diversos estados de
los Estados Unidos numerosas restricciones del derecho al voto de aplicacin para la poblacin carcelaria.
DIEGO 1793 Constitution de la Rpublique Franaise

Constitucin de la Primera Repblica francesa, redactada
por la Convencin Nacional y aprobada el 24 de junio de
1793. Una de las ms avanzadas de todos los tiempos,
contemplaba derechos sociales, sanidad y educacin pblicas y universales, sufragio universal, autonoma local,
democracia asamblearia directa, iniciativa legislativa popular y derecho a la rebelin. Nunca lleg a entrar en vigor.
AIMAR Esta ley pretenda ser ms moderna y cientfica

que la Ley de Vagos y Maleantes de 1933 a la que sustitua. En realidad su objetivo era permitir el encarcelamiento
de sujetos cuyo comportamiento, desde la homosexualidad hasta la rebelda ante la familia, no estaba recogido
en ningn tipo penal, por lo que se utilizaba arbitrariamente
para la represin de las personas molestas, a las que se
pretenda castigar sin que el Cdigo Penal lo justificase.
No fue derogada completamente hasta 1995.
JULIA 1992 Ley Orgnica 1/1992, de 21 de febrero,
sobre Proteccin de la Seguridad Ciudadana.
La Ley Orgnica de Proteccin de la Seguridad Ciudadana de 1992, conocida como Ley Corcuera, pretenda regular las operaciones policiales dentro del marco
de la Constitucin de 1978, sustituyendo a la Ley de
Orden Pblico de la poca franquista.
Desde espalda. Puertas abiertas.
EDUARDO El artculo 21.2, sin embargo, estableca como

(pasa el len, por las dos puertas)
causa legtima para la entrada y registro en domicilio por
delito flagrante el conocimiento fundado por parte de las
Fuerzas y Cuerpos de Seguridad que les lleve a la constancia de que se est cometiendo o se acaba de cometer
alguno de los delitos que, en materia de drogas txicas,
estupefacientes o sustancias psicotrpicas, castiga el Cdigo Penal.
AIMAR Este apartado del artculo fue declarado inconstitucional por sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional
341/1993, 18 noviembre (B.O.E. 10-12-1993). Con
esta y algunas otras modificaciones menores, la Ley Orgnica 1/1992 sigue en vigor en la actualidad.
Ley Orgnica 4/2000, del 11 de enero, sobre Derechos y Libertades de los Extranjeros en Espaa y su
Integracin Social modificada por la LO 8/2000, la
LO 14/2003 y la LO 2/2009
JULIA Conocida como Ley de Extranjera , la LO 4/2000
es la principal norma que regula la entrada y estancia de
los extranjeros extracomunitarios en el territorio espaol, as
como los derechos y libertades que se les reconocen. Modificada en 2000, 2003 y 2009, los cambios en su redaccin,
interpretacin y regulacin administrativa responden a los
vaivenes de las polticas econmicas y de control de flujos
migratorios de sucesivos gobiernos espaoles, presionados
a menudo por las autoridades de la UE. [IMAGEN HIDRA]
SALLY 1970 Ley 16-1970, de 4 de agosto, sobre Peligrosidad y Rehabilitacin Social.

La LPRS de 1970 era un instrumento de derecho penal
franquista que en realidad no sancionaba delitos sino que
pretenda evitar la comisin futura de los mismos, por lo
que no inclua penas, sino medidas de alejamiento, control y
retencin de los sujetos supuestamente peligrosos, a los
que se defina como una categora bio-psicopatolgica.
TRANSICIN CMARA: A sudadera en columna.
INICIO CMARA: Desde espalda. Va a
espalda en medio del texto un momento
y despus retoma el crculo.
Final CMARA: A espalda.
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SCRIPT
PALINDROPTIC
MONITOR 1. EXPENDABLES / PRE-EMPTIVE CUT
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From back.
DIEGO Expendable: unnecessary, replaceable, superfluous, disposable.
The Spanish word for expendable, prescindible, comes from the
Latin pre-scindere, meaning what can be pre-emptively cut off,
separated or put aside , presumably because one foresees that
it will not be needed. It also refers to what can be elided, omitted,
written off, ignored. It can be applied to people and things alike.
What does it mean to be an expendable person today? According
to the logic of the neoliberalism, an expendable person is someone who can no longer be exploited, someone whose physical and
psychic resources have been exhausted. Being expendable means
then being unexploitable, useless, redundant, surplus, leftover.
CAMERA TRANSITION: To back.
EDUARDO I have been evicted from my home. But I can still speak.
I received an order from the magistrates court. The name of the claimant and the solicitor were written in capital letters. My name was written in lower case. The eviction process began when I lost my job. It
was a Thursday, at thirty-five past six.
We are very low, nearly below ground level. From here, its impossible
to get back to the surface. My grandfather used to tell me the story
about the swifts. Swifts live their lives in constant flight; they even
sleep in the air. They cant land on the ground, and if they do by accident, say they dont have the strength to take flight again, because
in order to fly first they have to dive before they can soar up.
[FLOCK OF SWIFTS IMAGE]
Movement towards the image.
How can you take flight again when you are on the ground, or even
below ground level?
I can no longer be labelled accountant, mother, Catalonian; my
label now is unemployed and evicted, superfluous to society, not useful.
CAMERA TRANSITION: Fade to flock of swifts image.
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From flock of swifts image.
Moving back from the hand holding the image.
SALLY Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will
always glorify the hunters.
SILVIA Portuguese Prime Minister Passos Coelho encouraged
Portuguese teachers to emigrate: yes, there is employment abroad:
Since what you want above all is to go on working as teachers, you
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Then when I got to court I was asked: Do you have any images that
prove you were beaten by an officer? I told them that this was exactly
the problem: I wasnt allowed to film them and they split my head open
for trying. So the laws response is: Since you dont have any evidence
and the police are presumed to be telling the truth, we find you guilty.
I felt like I was in that movie, the one where Anthony Perkins plays
the defendant and he walks into an empty courtroom where the
law is represented by some books placed on top of a very tall
desk. Perkins dares to touch the books even though he knows they
are law books and therefore forbidden for him. They want to condemn him keeping him in a state of ignorance.
Since they wont let me use my camera I cant prove that they split
my head open for trying to use my camera. Reductio ad absurdum.
CAMERA TRANSITION: To wall in the room,
walk in straight line until fade into white, with the idea
of walking through the wall.
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From the general
shot walks through the wall in a straight line.
JUAN Grandfather clauses were often invoked in the context of
the application of the so-called Jim Crow laws in the US and constitute a clear example of what a double bind means.
The Jim Crow laws were a series of state and federal laws and
regulations that established a system of apartheid and racial segregation lasting almost 90 years. Segregation followed the principle separate but equal. The grandfather clause was invoked to
prevent the black population from voting without explicitly saying
so, since that would have been illegal. The law established that you
could not vote if you were illiterate- unless you had grandparents
who had the right to vote prior to 1861. [JIM CROW IMAGE] This
meant that illiterate whites could vote, while illiterate blacks, who
as slaves did not possess lands at the time and had received no
education, were clearly discriminated against.
CAMERA TRANSITION: Fade to Jim Crow image.
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From Jim Crow image.
The hand moves back with the picture.
SALLY Conclusion: the law via a double bind destroyed peoples
rights: the black population could not vote. Even today, in 2014,
there are 5.8 million US citizens who are denied the right to vote
because they have a criminal record or are in prison.
can search for jobs across the whole Portuguese-speaking world

market and find alternatives there In Angola and beyond. Brazil
also has a great need for in primary and secondary school teachers, he said in 2011.
CAMERA TRANSITION: To open door that someone
closes and fades to black.
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From room door.
SALLY Swift / Flock / Swarm / Expendable multitude
AIMAR To dispose of great swathes of expendable population, the
ruling order always resorts to the legal apparatus.
In the sixteenth century, common lands were enclosed [IMAGE
COMMON LANDS], and expropriated in England. The medieval
system of charity was suppressed, and new laws redefining crime

and labour were established. Land and labour became commodities. This process not only generated an accumulation of private
property, but also created large masses of dispossessed people:
[IMAGE ENGLISH SOLDIER], outcasts, vagrants, beggars travelling friars, rogues... In short, all kinds of nomadic people outside
the new wage labour order and outside the new science, since
they no longer had access to the resources offered by the common lands, these drifting masses of people became criminalized
by the new legal codes as thieves, vagabonds, or witches. As a
punishment and for the preservation of the nations public health,
these people got sent to the colonies, understood as prisons
without walls...
CAMERA TRANSITION: Fade to Kafkas door of the law
image on the wall.
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From Kafkas
door of the law image on the wall.
JULIA We were taking part in a very peaceful picket. The police response was disproportionate. A colleague went down, he was arrested and when I approached the cops to say dont take him away: he
has health issues I got arrested too.
Its clear that this is a government strategy designed to instil fear in
us. They want to criminalize our right to strike; this is closely linked
to the so-called gag law. More than 260 people have been prosecuted, some in the criminal courts like me. Six of my colleagues have
already been sentenced to prison. The trade unions have asked for all
of them to be pardoned. The pardon petition sent to the government
represents a call to common sense: you cant protect a right while
establishing a penal code that sanctions those who defend that right.
It just doesnt make sense.

SILVIA I am a bomber crewman in the US Air Force and Im afraid of
flying, and afraid of being killed. I would like to request a discharge. I
speak to the doctor, who is supposed to provide the diagnosis of mental illness that will exempt me from service. The doctor confirms that
the only way I can get a discharge is if they diagnose me as insane,
but the fact that I want to be discharged is a rational act. If you request
a discharge then you are sane, so I cant accept your request.
tution wasnt covered by the Penal Code so theyd arrest us for wearing floral blouses and bell-bottoms.
JULIA When I think about the Spanish governments 2014 Draft
Law on Civic Security or its precursors, such as the 1970 Social
Threats and Rehabilitation Act, I see a word play of antonyms between their titles, although their application and consequences are
similar in some respects.
The word threat turns into the word security. The dangerous becomes safe. The law has moved on from theoretically persecuting
the dangerous to protecting citizens. At first glance, it seems
almost comforting.
CAMERA TRANSITION: To wall.
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From wall.
SALLY Castile-La Manchas regional government is trying to curb
protests and demonstrations by civil servants. Public Healthcare
employees are fined for protesting if they wear their white coats.
29 August 2016. Teachers, judges, doctors, healthcare professionals, postmen, firemen and students are all prosecuted for taking
part in demonstrations.
The Civic Security Act has been designed to smother rebellion, as
if it were a forest fire.
Anyone who opposed the Franco regime could be considered a
moral or social threat, and today anyone who opposes the authorities by exercising their rights can be considered a criminal. [WHITE
COATS IMAGE]
CAMERA START: Outside the room. Same story
than in the previous monitor. From back.
EDUARDO Since they wont let me use my camera I cant prove that
they have split my head open for trying to use my camera... And they
give me a fine that I cant pay, and I claim bankruptcy, because Im broke.
And since I cant pay the fine in the end I go to jail. My data will be freely
circulated by private data protection agencies. Ive become a delinquent.
CAMERA TRANSITION: To a crack in
the exterior of the room.
CAMERA END: To back which links with beginning of video.
MONITOR 2. CUT FROM THE FRONT

/ CATCH 22 / JIM CROW / GAG
AIMAR Disposable is that which can be separated in advance, cut off
or put aside pre-emptively because it wont foreseeably be required.
To cut back. Avoid an unnecessary event from taking place.
Some laws prevent crimes or violations of rights from happening.
The problem is when the law becomes repressive, when it preempts something that is in fact the exercise of a fundamental right,
or when it is prepared to punish before something has actually happened, setting up a barrier, reducing a particular group of people,
preventing them from exercising their civil or personal rights...
JOSE Words such as relic and delinquent come from the Greek
leipo, or remains, linquo in Latin. A relic may be something that
has remained hidden for a long time, a vestige of the past, something was buried and should be unearthed.
The French Constitution of 1793 is both hidden and visible at the same
time. It was, perhaps, the most truly democratic constitution of all times.
Article no. 35 states that When the government violates the rights of
the people, rebellion is for the people and for each of its parts the
most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
CAMERA TRANSITION: To curtain.
My folks never explained why we always had to carry a can in the

car. They didnt need to explain, in fact: ever since we were small we
knew the answer to questions we never asked. Old Jim Crow didnt
let us use the restrooms when we stopped at the gas station: it was
too dangerous to get out of the car and use them. We only stopped to
get gas. Quickly. It wasnt safe to do anything else. Peeing in the can
was as normal to us as taking the highway to Nashville where old Jim
Crow made the rules.
CAMERA START: Outside the room. From back.
JULIA If you ask my permission to hold a protest as a citizen in a
democracy I say no, but if you dont ask my permission, then Ill
punish you; I demand that you comply with certain requirements but
I make it impossible for you to do so. Conclusion: the law resorts
to a double bind to destroy our rights: citizens of a so-called
democracy cannot organize a demonstration even though it is
one of their fundamental rights.
We have witnessed how the concept of the double bind surfaces
time and time again throughout history. The Jim Crow laws and
the proposed Civic Security Act being drafted by Spains current
government are both perverse mechanisms which distort logic.
CAMERA END: To back so that it links with beginning.
CAMERA START: Outside the room. From the crack.

DIEGO The great fear of the property owners from the 15thto the
19thcentury was that one night the slaves would unite, and burn
down the plantation. [PLANTATION IMAGE]
The plantation was more than just an economic structure ruled
through paternalism, rape and pure violence; it was also a psychic
structure resting on a completely paranoiac order in which fear bred
fear in an infernal cycle that neither owner nor slave could end or
escape from. As a replicant in Blade Runner says, to be a slave is
to live in fear. This mechanism of fear was anchored on the fiction
the concept of race was built on.
CAMERA TRANSITION: Fade to plantation image.
CAMERA START: Outside the room. From plantation image.
MONITOR 3. REMAINS = LINQUO.

DELINQUENT. The Gag Law
This is called a double bind or a Catch-22 situation.

CAMERA START: Outside the room, near. From back.
EDUARDO This is called a double bind or a Catch-22 situation.
They arrested me for filming during a protest. They beat me and hit me
in the head on the grounds that I was illegally filming a police officer.
CAMERA START: Outside the room. From back.

AIMAR The Spanish word prescindible also means remains and
comes from the Greek word leipo o r the Latin linquo (I dont
know how to pronounce it). From these roots we get words with diverse meanings such as relic and delinquent. The English term
delinquency, besides signifying criminality, may also refer to a
debt owing. Delinquency and debt are ever-converging concepts.
They stuck me in Barcelonas Modelo prison for being a transvestite, according to the Social Danger Act. [MUG SHOT OF SILVIA
REYES. HE TAKES UP AND DOWN THE IMAGE] I had a terrible
time there. Then I was sent to Carabanchel prison in Madrid. There
were up to 38 transsexuals there, and during transfers we were placed
in isolated cells to avoid trouble. There were prisoners who climbed up
five-metre walls to be with us. In Badajoz we were all lumped together
with the men and thieves.
I got out of prison the year Franco died. The judge said that being a
transvestite was worse than selling your body, but transsexual prosti-
JUAN Modern, capitalistic slavery required a bio-political category

allowing for the dehumanization of entire ethnic groups, justifying
their subjection and the merciless increase in exploitation demanded by the markets.
By mobilizing the racial signifier humanity may be divided into those
who should live, and those who whose fate is of no consequence,
those belonging to the class of the superfluous. Race is too useful
ever to be erased.
CAMERA END: To back.
MONITOR 4. RELIC.
(Archaeology, 1793 Constitution)
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From the white back side
of the picture which initially cannot be seen.
CAMERA START: Out of the curtain.

JUAN In the proposed 2014 Civic Security Act as drafted by the
Spanish Government, sovereignty becomes antonymous to the
concept enshrined in the French Constitution of 1793: Even if the
government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is
prohibited. Once a right, insurrection is now a crime.
DIEGO But there are also relics that some would rather forget,
erase, or leave buried. This is the dirty side of history, of the law.
The precedents of the law become mere relics, a set of framed family photos on the wall, in which no one can tell who is whose grandfather anymore. Ive always liked genealogies. It would be good to
draw the laws family tree.
CAMERA START: From back.
SILVIA The Nuremberg race laws put 16th century Inquisition-era
Spain- with its laws on racial purity- to shame, and were also inspired
by US laws such as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which included
the one-drop rule that labelled all people with the slightest trace of
African ancestry as black, just one little blood drop. The Nazi regime
found inspiration in British colonialism and US laws... Hitler loved
British films set in colonial India: they were his favourites. Francos
repressive tactics had been learned in colonial wars in North Africa.
DIEGO If I think about tomorrow, I dont know what to say because
our future isnt the future: its already here, unevenly distributed. All
these fragments, for example, a floral blouse, the bell-bottoms, a
hood, a book... They are the scattered relics/remains of an almost
hidden archaeology which could be reconstructed. I dont know
who it was who said it would be wonderful [SPACESHIP IMAGE]
to look at what is around you as if it were the ruins of the future. I

could live in a constant futuristic fiction, astride periods.
Repression generates relics, animal heads on walls, it turns us all
into archaeological remains.
CAMERA END: Fade to spaceship image.
MONITOR 5. FUTURE FICTION

ACTION: Throw images from the identity diaporama.
SILVIA The future is already here; only unevenly distributed (William
Gibson)
Lets forget about compasses and maps; lets go out onto the street
and inhale the scent of the wind to find out where it comes from.
Baghdad, Paris, Rio, New Orleans... they all have neighbourhoods
which are North and neighbourhoods which are South. Any neighbourhood, any street even a whole city can disappear suddenly,
almost overnight, only to reappear on another continent which can
be more North or more South. This can happen to whole countries:
Spain and Greece used to be North and now they are South. They
have shifted their position on the earths crust.
CAMERA TRANSITION: Fade to the magnetic
declination image on the floor.
19
CAMERA START: Inside the room.

From back. Lamp is on.
SALLY The human condition as we once knew it is dead. We have
become precarious assemblages. All of us, any of us, could become
superfluous from one day to the next.
Become an animal to be part of a swarm or a flock in flight. The
swift never stops flying, not even when asleep, following a route
from Europe to Africa, and from Africa to Europe. The swift dies if it
cant take flight again.
CAMERA TRANSITION: To lamp until fading to white.
CAMERA START: Outside the room. Spotlight
giving off light. From fade to white from spotlight.
EDUARDO During the five years I spent in prison, I had a lot of time
to think, read and reflect. I remember the scene from the film The
Trial, in which Anthony Perkins visits the studio of Titorelli, an artist
who specializes in portraits of judges.
The studio is made from wooden boards, and the artist says some-
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JUAN This law magnified the impact of the prohibition preventing all
inter-racial marriages. Along with the Sterilization Act approved at
the same time, the law formed part of a broad plan to put into practice the ideas on scientific eugenics promoted by Harry Laughlin.
These same laws provided the inspiration for Nazi Germanys 1933
racial purity laws. Laws SB219 and SB281 of the State of Virginia
were not fully abolished until 1979.
CAMERA START: From back. Outside.
SALLY 1970 The Social Threats and Rehabilitation Act 16-1970,
of 4th of August. The Social Threats and Rehabilitation Act of
1970 was an instrument of penal law under Francos regime which
did not sanction crimes but rather sought to pre-empt the possibility of such crimes being committed. Therefore it didnt contemplate
sanctions but instead applied restraint, control and arrest measures
to supposedly dangerous individuals who fell into the category of
the bio-psychopathologic.

AIMAR This section of the article was declared unconstitutional by
Constitutional Court Decision No. 341/1993 of 18th of November
(published in the Spanish Official State Gazette on 10/12/1993).
But Organic Law 1/1992 is still in force today, albeit with this and
other minor modifications.
JULIA 2000 Organic Law 4/2000 of 11 January concerning the
Rights and Freedoms of Foreigners in Spain and their Social
Integration, amended by Organic Law 8/2000, Organic Law
14/2003 and Organic Law 2/2009. Organic Law 4/2000 is the
main law regulating the entry and stay of non-EU foreigners on
Spanish territory, as well as the rights and freedoms they are granted. Modified in 2000, 2003 and 2009, the changes in the text of the
law, its interpretation and administrative regulation reflect the political and economic ups and downs influencing control of migratory
flows by successive Spanish governments, on occasion pressured
by EU authorities. [IMAGE HYDRA]
LeGuin (?)
Los sujetos en posesin de las masas monetarias ms

potentes podrn refugiarse en sus urbanizaciones
amuralladas, sus islas privadas y lugares as.

Apenas cinco semanas despus, los monitores
de SpES mostraban cmo las hordas de Ramrez*
Con el Neoliberalismo, el Capitalismo deja atrs su

tradicional orientacin hacia la extraccin de plusvala mediante la explotacin de los trabajadores, para
reorientarse hacia la eliminacin de los trabajadores,
y en ltima instancia, la eliminacin pura y simple.
La Cpula-Habitat que construyeron en Bakersfield era ya un

prototipo de la propia Sper-Estacin-Satlite (Sp.E.S.), y lo
bastante viable en s misma como para que algunos colonos
se preguntasen si vala la pena la enorme inversin de trabajo
y riqueza que haban emprendido: Por qu no establecerse
all simplemente? Pero la ruptura del Tratado Cal-Mex y las
primeras invasiones procedentes del Sur, junto con la nueva
epidemia de la fungi-plaga, les persuadieron de nuevo de
que quedarse en la Tierra ya no era una opcin razonable.

Construction crews shuttled back
and forth four times a year for four years.
Ike had called them into the monitor centre to

see what had happened to Bakersfield Dome.
Some of the women and children in Spes
were inclined to be sentimental, homesick
[What awaits elimination is] we ourselves, future generations, and much other life on Earth.
[*An allusion to the neo-Zapatista movement? (Ed. note)]

to Spes and safety. Only five
weeks later, the monitors in Spes reported that Ramirez hordes*
Cash-bloated individuals who can remove themselves

to their gated communities, islands, and the like.
Seven years after the move to California,

ten last trips between the launchpad on
Earth and the golden bubble hovering at
the libration point carried the colonists

had overrun Bakersfield, destroying the launch tower, looting what
little was left, burning the dome.
A hairbreadth escape, Noah said to his father, Ike.
Blacker (?)
Los equipos de construccin orbital se pasaron yendo

y viniendo en lanzadera cuatro veces al ao durante los
siguientes cuatro aos. Y as, siete aos despus de la reubicacin del proyecto en California, los ltimos diez viajes
entre la torre de lanzamiento y el punto de Libracin entre la
Tierra y la Luna, donde flotaba la burbuja dorada, trasladaron por fin a los colonos a una existencia segura en SpES.
[*neo-chavistas? neo-zapatistas? (n. del ed.)]

haban arrasado Bakersfield, destruyendo la torre de lanzamiento, saqueando lo poco que
quedaba, y prendiendo fuego a la Cpula.
Una huida por los pelos, le dijo Noah a su padre, Ike.
En este esquema neo-feudal, la clase monopolista-rentista, protegida de toda competencia, podr sentarse
a contemplar tranquilamente la guerra de todos contra
todos rugiendo entre los pobres de fuera del castillo.
Blacker (?)
El sueo final del tecno-capitalismo en cuanto a la

produccin es la completa eliminacin del capital
variable; en otras palabras, dejar de depender de
los seres humanos- con los inconvenientes que representan- como parte del proceso de produccin.
Sobramos nosotros, las generaciones futuras, y

casi todas las otras formas de vida en la Tierra.
Neoliberalism represents capitalisms moving beyond

its traditional concern with extracting labours surplus
value, i.e. worker exploitation, into a posture of worker
should Security Forces and Corps have knowledge leading

them to believe that a crime related to intoxicating, stupefacient
or psychotropic drugs punishable by the Penal Code is being
committed or has just been committed, this is just cause for
the entry and search of the home of a subject on in flagrante
delicto grounds.
[N. de los Editores:

En Octubre de 2198, un equipo de ciber-arquelogos de
la Multiversidad Libre de Puerto Marte encontr un antiguo
archivo- parcialmente daado- que haba logrado sobrevivir
al Holocausto Digital y la Cada de Internet, y que pronto
se hizo famoso por ofrecernos una de los escasos testimonios disponibles sobre la Gran Crisis del Siglo XXI.
Sin embargo, pasado el entusiasmo inicial los investigadores
descubrieron que el archivo haba sufrido el ataque de un
virus (o de un robot virtual) que al parecer haba entremezclado fragmentos de dos textos distintos. El agente ciber-viral
haba recombinado pasajes de un relato de ciencia ficcin
titulado Newtons Sleep (publicado por U. K. LeGuin en
1991), con citas de un ensayo de no-ficcin sobre educacin y economa titulado The Falling Rate of Learning (publicado por David Blacker en 2013). No obstante, de estos dos
textos no se ha conservado ni rastro en su supuesta versin
original separada- solo tenemos menciones en otras fuentes,
y la mezcla de ambos en el archivo daado. A continuacin
presentamos un intento de deslindar los dos textos que el
virus mezcl. Los hemos separado como una cremallera que
se abre, basndonos en una reconstruccin razonable de lo
que ciencia ficcin y no-ficcin podran haber significado
en el Siglo XXI. Dado que estas no son categoras sobre las
que haya consenso entre los ciber-historiadores, hemos de
advertir que nuestra propuesta de des-ensamblaje de este
bi-texto mutante no es aceptada por todos los expertos.]
LeGuin (?)
CAMERA START: Inside the room.

From back. Doors are open.
EDUARDO Nevertheless, Article 21.2 of that law established that
(the lion passes by both doors)
The dometown they built there was a prototype of the Special Earth Satellite itself, and
liveable enough that a few colonists asked
why go to the vast expense of wealth and
work, why not settle here? But the breakdown of the Calmex treaty and the first
invasions from the south, along with a new
epidemic of the fungal plague, proved yet
again that Earth was not a viable option.
URSULA K. LEGUIN (1991)

y DAVID BLACKER (2013)
Ike les haba llamado al centro de pantallas para que vieran lo que haba pasado con la Cpula de Bakersfield.
Algunas mujeres y algunos nios en SpES mostraban
una actitud sentimental (nostlgica, decan); Ike sin
embargo quera que sus hijos viesen cmo era la Tierra
y porqu la haban abandonado. La Inteligencia Artificial,
programada para seleccionar informacin de inters
para la colonia, concluy el reportaje sobre Bakersfield
con una extrapolacin de las conquistas de Ramrez,
Si el estallido social ocasionado por la turbulencia econmica no lo desencadena antes, las inexorables y crecientes externalidades debidas al cambio climtico y el agotamiento de los recursos tornarn la situacin incontrolable

y pas a continuacin a un estudio meteorolgico peruano sobre la Cuenca del Amazonas. Dunas y rojizas planicies desnudas de vegetacin llenaron la pantalla, mientras la IA con
su timbre montono traduca la voz en off.
Fjate, dijo Esther. Est todo muerto. Por qu no
est todo el mundo con nosotros aqu arriba?
The initial enthusiasm was somewhat dampened, however, when further research into associated metadata
packages revealed that the file must have undergone some sort of attack by an unknown viral actor
network (or a virtual droid), which seemed to have
grafted together excerpts from two different texts: a
science-fiction narrative titled Newtons Sleep (published by one U.K. LeGuin in 1991), and a non-fiction
essay on education and economics titled The Falling
Rate of Learning (published by one David Blacker in
2013). Yet neither work has come down to us in its
putative original version, of which, furthermore, no

JOSE 1924 Racial Integrity Act/ Sterilization Act (Commonwealth of Virginia SB219, SB281). Law SB219 of the State of
Virginia made it compulsory to officially identify the race of all
individuals born in that state, including this information on their
birth certificates. The classification observed only two categories:
white and coloured (everyone else). In accordance with the socalled one-drop rule, any non-European ascendancy no matter
how remote, immediately led to the classification of the person in
question as coloured, although some influential white families did
manage to persuade the authorities to apply the Pocahontas exception to their case, which allowed them up to 1/16 of Native
American ascendancy.
Ensamblaje basado en textos de
AN ASSEMBLAGE BASED
O N E X C E R P TS F R O M
URSULA K. LEGUIN (1991)
A N D D AV I D B L A C K E R ( 2 0 1 3 )
CAMERA START: Inside the room. From back, films the room.
SILVIA Go out onto the street and take another look around. Your
city stretches North and South of itself. This street, this corner:
they are in your city and in the shadow of another city. This is the synchronicity of your city, where different time-space dimensions exist
and overlap. Here is not just here, and now is much more than now.
Enter Madrids Metro and surface in New Orleans.
CAMERA START: From outside the room, closer.

From fade to black from column.
EDUARDOFor almost 90 years they established an apartheid and
racial segregation system, crushing the civil rights of African Americans, in particular preventing them from exercising their right to
vote. The majority of these provisions were revoked after 1965, although in many states within the USA restrictions to voting right still
apply to prison inmates.

JULIA 1992 Organic Law 1/1992, of 21 February, concerning
Citizen Security. Spains Organic Law on the Protection of Citvic
Security of 1992, known as the Corcuera Law, aimed to regulate
police operations under the 1978 Constitution, replacing the Public
Order Act from the Franco era.
A S TAT I O N
CALLED HOPE

AIMAR It happened in autumn 2012. The police asked us for our ID
at the bus station: me, and two other foreign girls. They were plainclothes officers. They took me to a detention centre. I asked the woman I work for if she could bring me some shampoo and a book. I was
stuck in there for three months before they eventually deported me
back to Paraguay. Im saving now to go and work in Brazil.
ed States. The so-called Jim Crow laws were established to cancel out the effects of the emancipation of slaves in 1865, a vast
body of legal and administrative provisions and interpretations operating at the local, state and even federal level.
CAMERA TRANSITION: Fade to black on outside column.
ESPERANZA
What we present below, in a layout resembling a

zip being unfastened, is an attempt to disentangle
the excerpts that viral know-bots stitched together
into a mutant bi-text nearly two hundred years ago.
Needless to say, our re/de/construction of this mass
of recombinant textuality is based on a hypothetical
interpretation of what science-fiction and non-fiction might have meant in the 21st Century, and these
being far from undisputed categories, we must warn
the readers that what follows is not an uncontroversial, widely accepted rendering of the text(s).]
There is no present: there is only the here and now. In fact, there are
many heres and nows but they are made up of fragments of memories, amnesias, laments, narratives, repressions and voices that you
would call past and the desires, fears, plans and promises that
you called future. So there is no present: only shadows of the
future and the past. Like ghosts, they are neither within you nor
outside of you.
CAMERA TRANSITION: To back. The camera only
starts to approach the transition.
CAMERA START: From fade to black on outside column.

SILVIA 1876-1965 Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow was a caricature
that served to ridicule the black population in the south of the Unit-
CAMERA START: From back. Goes to back in the

middle of the text for a moment and then resumes the circle.
AIMAR This law aimed to be more modern and scientific than
the Vagrancy Act of 1933 it replaced. In fact, its objective was to
allow the imprisonment of any individuals whose behaviour, from
homosexuality to rebellion against the family, was not typified
by any other law, meaning that it could be used arbitrarily against
troublesome individuals, regardless of the Penal Code. It was not
completely abolished until 1995.
The ultimate dream of techno-capitalism on the

production side is the elimination of variable capital
completely, that is to say, achieving independence from the inconvenience of reliance upon actual
human beings as part of the production process.

JUAN I was arrested for surrounding the Parliament building four years
ago in 2015, on the second anniversary of the 25-S demonstration,
just before the Civic Security Act came into force. Rallies outside Parliament buildings...
CAMERA TRANSITION: To crack in the room
while Julia enters and continues. Long shot.
JULIA ... may be serious crimes if they are deemed to be threats to
civic security. In other words, they are always serious crimes, because the law is subject to interpretation. Now you cannot gather
outside parliament anymore.
CAMERA stops abruptly.
llamada
In October 2198, a team of cyber-archaeologists

from the Free Multiversity at Marsport discovered an
ancient, partly damaged text file dating from the period before the Fall of the World Wide Web. The fact
that it had survived the Digital Holocaust, along with
the tantalizing glimpses it offered into the period of
the Great Crisis of the 21st Century, soon captured
public imagination throughout the Solar System.
I want to be surprised by myself. I have the right to be different, and

this should be understood as a celebration.
CAMERA START: Outside the room from far away.

DIEGO 1793 Constitution de la Rpublique Franaise. The Constitution of the First Republic of France was drafted by the National
Convention and accepted on 24th of June 1793. One of the most
advanced documents of its kind of all time, it enshrined social rights,
public and universal healthcare and education, universal suffrage,
local autonomy, direct democracy based on assemblies, popular legislative initiatives and the right to revolt. It never entered into force.
CAMERA TRANSITION: Fade to black on outside column.
ESTACIN
elimination and, ultimately, elimination simpliciter.
MONITOR 6.
Una
traces have ever been found anywhere- except for a

few obscure mentions, and the fragments preserved
(albeit inextricably entwined) in the damaged file itself.
thing to Perkins like the representation of the law always happens in the backstage. The Roman and Greek forum was the
space of theatre, law, courts and assemblies: everything took place
in public, under the Mediterranean sun, under the light.
The spotlight is turned off. The cameraman approaches the
black door panel, while Diego takes Eduardos place.
Madrids Puerta del Sol became a public amphitheatre before they
filled it with terraces and emblazoned the telephone companys
name on it.
We are still outside and the camera continues until approaching
Diego, it keeps circling around.
DIEGO I think of my twenty-five-year-old self with my camera on the
streets; Perkins visits the artist, the self-taught law expert, seeking
advice on his court case. The artist tells him that knowledge of the
law and how to intervene in legal matters can also come from representation. With a camera I can also produce knowledge and have
an effect on the law. I know this now, from the future.
[Editors note:
CAMERA START: Outside the room. From the magnetic

declination image on the floor.
JOSE There is another approach: we could reclaim the right to
opacity. Not opacity as enclosure but opacity as openness. A concept our existence isnt reduced, where Im not watched or controlled 24 hours a day, a concept that stands in opposition to the
transparency imposed by Western paradigms. I want to have the
right to opacity. I shouldnt have to explain or understand who I am:
21
Quieren que desaparezcas.

La sorprendente novedad radica aqu en el porcentaje de poblacin a desechar- cuantsima gente se
queda fuera de la visin que marca las directrices
perseguidas por estas lites para auto-perpetuarse.
22
Conservadores? Convencionales?
De qu ests hablando?
David J. Blacker: The Falling Rate of Learning and the

Neoliberal Endgame, Winchester: Zero Books, 2013
Ursula K. LeGuin: Newtons Sleep en A Fisherman
of the Inland Sea, New York: Harper Collins, 2010
Now they want you gone.
No dead weight on board! We

cant afford to be sentimental
It came down to what D. H. Maston, the
Father of Spes, called the cold equations.
Elimination as the Neoliberal Endgame.

No longer do they want to exploit you.
[*An allusion to the disintegration of the former USA and EU? (Ed. note)]
[They know that] until a threshold of social instability is passed, it is proportionately easier for
elites to deploy austerity policies against the
general population owing to the simple fact that
they no longer as greatly need the services of
the run of humanity for winning their wealth
Many of them are quite clever ... They are the

best and brightest products of the most elite schools. They know complicated math.
Under collapse conditions, the project of universal education may seem quite the quaint relic of more innocent times
There is no place for these people; they are

no longer needed. A fortiori there is no place for their legal freedoms, their health care,
their infrastructure, their physical environment,
their public safety or, indeed, their education.
Capitalism is now finally done with them
Increasing segments of the population are morally written off as no longer exploitable and
hence irrelevant to capital accumulation.
Why bother caring for them at all,
let alone educating them?
blacks just didnt get the training.
Conservative? Conventional?
What are you talking about?
...A monopolist rent-extracting class that no longer
dreams of Christendom or Imperium but rather of
escaping completely from the rest of humanity.
There had been no problem recruiting people of Asiatic ancestry, in fact it seemed the
reverse, but the lack of African-ancestry colonists had caused long and bitter struggles
of conscience over policy [...] But there had
been no way around the fact that in a closed
community of only eight hundred, every single
person must be fit, not only genetically, but
intellectually. And after the breakdown of
public schooling during the Refederation*,
to do it right, to do it right, for once! These
people are innovators, intellectually courageous, not a bunch of gutbrains sunk in
their bigotries! Our average IQ is 165
Ike, I know. I know the average IQ.
as waste products awaiting managed disposal.
...The mad dream of the gated community, a fantasy

of ridding oneself of dependence upon undesirables (those people), a kind of zombie apocalypse
from which elites escape and establish an unsullied
paradise where reside only the heroic individuals
and their families (presumably also heroic).
She nodded. It might be best, she said.
What is stunningly novel here is how large a percentage of the population is to be written off, how
many of us are simply absent from what appears to
be the guiding vision of our self-perpetuating elites.
Ike, Spes people are very conventional, conservative people, hadnt

you noticed? Very elitist people. How
could we be anything but?

You know, it was such a long haul
that its hard to remember that we made
itwere here. And already building the
next colony. When theres a cluster of colonies at every optimumor if they decide to
build the Big Ship and cut free of the Solar
Systemwhat relevance is anything about
Earth going to have to those people?
Now elites, secure in their social (and increasingly geographical) distance, are the ones to
declare their own independence from their compatriots and the mass of humanity in general: a
declaration of independence from humanity.
...Perfecting a new finance-based, technology-enabled and geographically stratified pathos of distance
There had been few black applicants,

and almost none of them had passed
the rigorous tests. They had been wonderful people, of course, but that wasnt
enough. Every adult on board had to be
outstandingly competent in several areas
of expertise. There was no time to train
people who, through no fault of their own,
had been disadvantaged from the start.
I dont understand your attitude. We risked
everything for Spes because were future oriented. These are the people who
chose to leave the past behind, to start
fresh. To form a true human community and
Como haba dicho D. H. Maston, el fundador de SpES,

no se podan permitir sentimentalismos ni lastres
Era una cuestin de fras ecuaciones.
Why was there so much willingness among

elites [...] at this point in history to abandon
the New Deal era financial safeguards that
were put in place for their own good?
Ike, la gente de SpES es muy convencional, muy

conservadora, no lo habas notado? Somos gente muy elitista. Y no podramos ser de otro modo.
Es la Gran Jugada Final del Neoliberalismo. Ya no quieren explotarte.
Well, look at us! Power hierarchy, division of labour by gender, Cartesian

values, totally mid-twentieth century! Im
not complaining, you know. I chose it
too. I love feeling safe. I wanted the kids
to be safe. But you pay for safety.
Esta vez son las lites, seguras en su distancia social (y cada vez mas espacial), las que declaran
su Independencia respecto del resto de sus compatriotas y de la mayora de sus congneres: se
declaran independientes del gnero humano.
Ya no hay lugar para esa gente; ya no se les necesita.

A la postre, sobran ellos y sobran sus derechos y libertades, su atencin sanitaria, su infraestructura, su entorno fsico, su seguridad ciudadana y, por supuesto, su
educacin. El Capitalismo ya no necesita nada de esto.
Ill tell you something, he said to Susan.

Whats that? she asked, watching

Seremos autnticos habitantes del espacio. Y esa es la idea- conseguir esa libertad

and then shifted to a Peruvian meteorological study of the Amazon Basin. Dunes
and bald red plains filled the screen, while
the voice-over, a running English translation
by the AI, droned away. Look at it, Esther
La lite extractivo-monopolista ya no suea

con Imperios o Cristiandades, sino con escapar completamente del resto de la Humanidad.
De entrada haban sido pocos los candidatos de raza negra, y casi ninguno haba conseguido pasar las rigurosas
pruebas. Sin duda eran gente esplndida, pero con eso
no bastaba. Cada adulto abordo de Spes tena que poseer un nivel de excelencia en varias especialidades. No
haba tiempo para formar a gente que- aunque no fuese
culpa suya- parta con una desventaja inicial insuperable.
The holovid showed an immense dust

storm moving slowly, vaguely across
the deserts of Amazonia. It was a dull,
dark red-gray-brown, dirt colour.

Ha costado tanto esfuerzo que a veces nos
olvidamos de que ya lo hemos conseguido. Ya estamos
aqu arriba. Y ya estamos construyendo la prxima
colonia. Cuando haya un puado de colonias en cada
rbita ptima- o si se decide construir la Gran Nave
y marcharnos del Sistema Solar- qu relevancia
tendr la Tierra entonces para nuestra gente?
Sectores crecientes de la poblacin quedan excluidos moralmente como in-explotables, y por tanto
irrelevantes dentro del proceso de acumulacin
del capital. Por qu molestarse no ya en educarlos, sino en ocuparse de ellos en absoluto?
If social unrest due to economic turmoil

doesnt do it, the apparently inexorable downstream externalities of climate
change and resource depletion may propel events beyond anyones control
Perfeccionando la pasin por una nuevo distanciamiento de base financiera, plasmado gracias a
la tecnologa en una estratificacin geogrfica

los negros sencillamente ya no
reciban la formacin necesaria.
While normal business profits plummet and

theft-by-finance rises, capitalism now shifts into a mode of elimination that targets most
of us - along with our environment -
Eso es lo que pienso. Serasimplificar las cosas- Y sera ms honrado. Nos hara dejar de
aferrarnos al pasado, nos liberara, permitindonos girar hacia el presente y el futuro
Bajo condiciones de colapso social, el proyecto de

la educacin pblica universal puede llegar a ser visto como una curiosa reliquia de tiempos mejores
[* los procesos de ruptura y reconstruccin
de la antigua Unin Europea y los Estados
Unidos de Amrica?(n. del ed.)]
Money, her mother said.
La voluntad de abandonar a sus suerte a vastos sectores de la poblacin es tan escalofriante como explcita.
The AI, programmed to select for information of

interest to the colony, finished the Bakersfield
report with a projection of Ramirez conquests
Sera lo mejor, asinti ella.
I think so. It wouldsimplify And like

Al said, it would be honest. It would
turn us from clinging to the past, free
us toward actuality and the future...
No haban surgido problemas para reclutar gente de

origen asitico- ms bien al contrario, pero la ausencia de
colonos de ascendencia africana haba motivado largos
y amargos conflictos de consciencia a la hora de decidir
la poltica a seguir No haba forma de soslayar el hecho de que en una comunidad de 800 personas, todos y
cada uno de los miembros tena que ser apto no solo en
su gentica, sino tambin intelectualmente. Y tras el colapso de la educacin pblica durante la Refederacin*,

Our neo-feudal lords walls
provide no refuge as they are built
solely to keep the peasants out
El sueo demencial de la urbanizacin amurallada, la fantasa de librarse de toda dependencia respecto de los indeseables (esa gente), una especie de apocalipsis zombi
del que las lites consiguen escapar, refugindose en un
inmaculado paraso donde solo habitaran los sujetos mas
heroicos y sus (es de suponer) no menos heroicas familias
No son estpidos. Muy al contrario, son los

ms brillantes alumnos de escuelas de lite. Dominan la matemtica ms compleja.
[Saben que] dentro de cierto nivel de inestabilidad
social, es proporcionalmente ms fcil desplegar las
polticas de austeridad contra la poblacin, debido
a un hecho muy simple: la gran masa de la humanidad ya no es necesaria para generar riqueza.
[A] neo-feudal arrangement where a monopolist

rentier class, insulated from competition, sits back
and watches the bellum omnium contra omnes
reigning among the paupers on the outside.
Tengo una cosa que contarte, le dijo a Susan.

Qu pasa?, pregunt ella, observando el holo-video, donde la tormenta de arena vista desde la
estratosfera apareca como un grotesco glbulo a
la deriva, con largas terminaciones como rizomas.
No me gustan las pantallas. No me gusta mirar all
abajo. Le costaba un cierto esfuerzo admitirlo, verbalizarlo, pero Susan simplemente le sonri y dijo:Lo s.
A veces me gustara apagarlas, dijo con un risita. Bueno, en realidad no. Pero Es que es como una hipoteca
que nos atase, un vnculo, un cordn umbilical Ojal
pudiramos cortarlo. Ojal pudieran empezar de cero.
Limpios de toda atadura. Nuestros hijos, quiero decir

Theyll be true spacedwellers.
And thats the whole ideathat freedom.
I wouldnt mind a taste of it right now.
como productos desechables, listos para ser sometidos

a un proceso de eliminacin controlada de residuos.
No entiendo tu actitud. Lo hemos arriesgado todo por

SpES - porque somos gente con mentalidad de futuro. Aqu
estamos los que elegimos dejar atrs el pasado, y empezar
de nuevo. Para formar una verdadera comunidad humana
y hacerlo bien. Y que esta vez salga bien! La gente que
est aqu con nosotros son innovadores, gente con valenta
intelectual, no una pandilla de retrasados hundidos en sus
prejuicios! Nuestro cociente Intelectual medio es de 165
Ya s cul es
This willingness to abandon huge segments of the population - those people - is as chilling as it is explicit.
El holo-video mostraba una inmensa tormenta de arena

cruzando lentamente los desiertos de la Amazonia. Era de
un color terroso y reseco, entre el rojo, el gris y el pardo.
Pero por qu decidieron las lites en este momento

histrico abandonar la proteccin que haba ofrecidopara su propio beneficio- el sistema del New Deal?
the holovid, which showed the dust

storm from the stratosphere, an ugly
drifting blob with long tendrils.
I dont like the monitors. I
dont like to look down.
It cost him something to admit it, to say it aloud; but Susan
only smiled and said, I know.
Sometimes I wish we could turn it off, he
said, and laughed. Not really. Butits a
lien, a tie, an umbilicus. I wish we could
cut it. I wish they could start fresh. Absolutely clean and clear. The kids, I mean.
Mientras los beneficios normales del capital se

desploman y crece el robo financiero, el capitalismo pasa
a una fase de eliminacin que identifica a la mayora de
los seres humanos- y al medioambiente en que vivimos-
said, peering, pushing her glasses up. Its all

dead. How come everybody isnt up here?
Dinero, dijo su madre.
Echa un vistazo a lo que somos, Ike: Jerarquas de poder,

divisin del trabajo por gneros, valores cartesianos
Totalmente al estilo de mediados del siglo XX!
Entindeme bien, no me estoy quejando. Yo tambin eleg
esto. Me encanta sentirme segura. Y quera seguridad
para los nios. Pero la seguridad tiene un precio.
they said; he wanted his children to see

what Earth was and why they had left it.
Los muros tras los que viven nuestros nuevos seores feudales no estn hechos para protegernos a
todos, sino para mantener a los campesinos fuera
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1. Sally Tallant: Experiments in Integrated

1. Sally Tallant: Experiments in Integrated

Decolonizando las estticas y el conocimiento, y que

UNTIL LIONS SET THE PROGRAMMES

del ao 2012 lleg a mi bandeja de entrada un correo electrnico del Centro de

Carlota lvarez Basso

Hasta que los leones

HASTA QUE LOS LEONES

roles. They are a place to test the boundaries of theory

Hasta que los

ga, and Silvia Zayas, with the collaboration of

-de la historia y de la ley, de las poblaciones y los sujetos, de

Vistas generales de la exposicin.

General views of the exhibition.

Instalacin compuesta por

VDEOS, MADERA Y LIBROS.

history, and how the violence running through both

THE AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION is presented in

Video still from Margin of Error and panel of

Fotogramas de Margen de Error y fotografa de

STUDENTS TOOK part in two types of activities.

it falls. Conquest, slavery and evangelism are some

Among these gentle sheep, gifted by their

De las Casas 1552

En estas ovejas mansas, y de las calidades

Desde el primer momento le amarraron las manos

Qu era lo que haca con la Biblia?

Dos maneras generales y principales han

De las Casas 1552

Being human beings, what pain those bodies must

And I say this from my own knowledge of the

I could not concentrate when I

BARTOLOM DE LAS CASAS (1542)

They took up arms, but their weapons were

He said that we native Indians allowed

Many shouted for help. They seemed to be half dead

They usually dealt with the chieftains and

They made some low wide gallows on

At the same time the captain wanted to convince the

marks of bites in different parts of her body. This

[the other method being] to subject them to the

There was also a woman. First they had

-such as all the native lords and adult males

My brother was under torture for more than 16 days.

Two ordinary and principal methods have the

They spared neither the children nor the aged,

There were already many people in that place

And the Christians, with their horses

Then my mother approached a truck to see if

I saw all these things I have described, and countless others.

We could not bear to see... We could not carry

I once saw this, when there were four or

ripping up their bellies, cut them to pieces, as if

What was he doing with the Bible, they wanted to know,

These are people with unsoiled, agile and

from striking against the stones, the tree trunks; my

Yo vide todas las

Haba tambin una mujer. La haban violado

... Con sus caballos y espadas e lanzas

....Por ser aquellas tierras tan felices e tan ricas,

(hablo con verdad por lo que s y he