Cuerpos en Escucha is an artistic research project based on activating spaces for co-creation and multidisciplinary experimentation linked to the surroundings. It covers the fields of the arts, gender, territory and society. It aims to create links with various local organisations in the Barcelona area and to establish relations with various communities.

The project has three phases that are not separate to each other, but interwoven and entwined with each other: education, production and exhibition. The three phases are carried out together, with no pre-established order, allowing the needs of the participants to let the path to follow emerge.

We will begin with the idea that there are no distinct boundaries between the arts and the political, as well as between pedagogical processes and artistic experimentation. Every art form and creative process involves a form of learning with an ethical nature, which allows us to reflect on how and what we learn. Similarly, every learning process is based on a form of "artistry", in the sense that it inspires the desire to create, be it in theory, in practice or "in-between" the two. Our aim is not to teach a technique but to create from the one that allows us to do a certain technique or artistic practice.

In what could be defined as the educational phase, we propose activating artistic experimentation laboratories based on the Visual Arts in all their richness and complexity. In the production phase, the aim is to create a space for collaborative artistic creation. It is a meeting and co-creation place that sees art as a manifestation of human creativity, free and accessible to all. In the exhibition phase, or rather the collective and affective curatorial phase, we work together with the hosting organisations and the group of participants to plan, curate and put on a group exhibition.

We believe that what makes this project unique is, in fact, the continuous evolution of the co-production and co-curation process, given the changing and diverse nature of the participating communities. This work dynamic allows us to explore ways of making art from the collective and to fuel pedagogical and ethical-political processes through artistic activity. Beyond producing events that appear and disappear, our aim is to create meetings that produce relationships and micro-political activation, affection and sympathy - in the sense of sharing emotions and experiences. With this initiative we want to create forms of collaboration in the development of artistic-creative practices that allow us to generate a democratic sense of community, based on the diversity and multiplicity of subjectivities.