2020
Byte Beta:
virtual festival
Reflections, virtual and free discussions about bodies, networks, technologies, and knowledge.
Workshops, concerts, and talks on the transformations of physical, emotional, affective, and social habits during the pandemic.
WITH: Identidad Marrón, Mariana Otero, Alexandra Prici, Comunidad Catrileo-Carrión, Helen Torres, Sasha Sathya y más.
Concept
Beta is synonymous with change and transformation. Beta in programming language refers to a testing period. A permanence in this state implies the antithesis of the stable and permanent.
Four days, with four thematic axes
1. Overadapted bodies and consciousness
Exercises and reflections to think-feel from the physical and subtle plane
2. Beta-State Thinking
Urgent discussions for the construction of an intersectional past, present, and future
3. Tool
Knowledge exchange spaces from a horizontal, anti-meritocratic perspective
4. New Social and Affective Habits
Rethink care, affections, and collective emotions from a transfeminist perspective
Team
Director
Julieta Gómez Blumen
Julia Szejnblum
General Production
Camila Albertocchi
Communication
Luis Juarez
Violeta González Santos
Visual Identity
Juan Pinkus
Program
Intervened Archives
In collaboration with the National Archive of Argentina (AGN), four audiovisual pieces show how national archives can help us build other stories.
Love in Times of Catastrophe
Sociologist, educator, and Spanish translator of Donna Haraway, Helen Torres (UY-ES) wonders how to rethink emotions and affections in these times
Ngomalayiñ/ We don't forget: Diverging Memories
Conversation with members of the Mapuche community Catrileo-Carrión (CL) focused on the representation of the Mapuche people in the Chilean and Argentine press based on material found on the internet: the audiovisual archive as colonial violence.
Terrestrial, Spatial, and Telepathic Movements
Choreographer Alexandra Pirici (RO) and artist Lorena Fernández (AR) think of journeys as movements of bodies in space, a conversation that reflects on how movements can be actions of resistance to feel and think collectively.
