Marc Badia IN RESiDENCE at the School Doctor Puigvert

“As a gift for the initiation ritual of her 15th birthday, Camille 2 decided to ask for chin implants made of butterfly antennae; a kind of tentacle beard that would allow her to extend her human perceptive capacities and include the tasting sensibility enjoyed by the insect worlds, (...)”.

The Camille Stories: Children of Compost, Donna Haraway.

The project aims to take the pupils' everyday life as a starting point and transform it into a speculative fiction materialised through the visual and plastic arts in a cooperative work process. By asking pupils the question of What worries you?, I will seek to generate alternatives, making use of speculative fiction. 

The students' everyday life and its diversity is the primary focal point. What is their daily life like? What are their routines? What do they feel? What worries them? What do they see from the window at home? What do they watch on their mobile phone? What music do they listen to? How do they see the world? All these things describe how they live and who they are, their identity, but it also provides a narrative of life that is different from the institutional one, from the media and from social networks. This narrative is relevant to their subjectivity, only from it can the common be articulated. This subjectivity in relation to other student, teacher and environment subjectivities is capable of producing a learning process for all, creating a dialectic process from which to build new realities. Speculative fiction is therefore a tool that helps us imagine alternative realities. 

Through it, we can exercise the dissuasion of the fiction of a single past, present and future narrative. It can help us imagine possible alternative worlds in which the problems of the present have become rubble on which to build new realities.