¡BASTA! – Printed Refusals, Spoken Futures

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¡BASTA! – Printed Refusals, Spoken Futures questions how much is enough and also how to position ourselves in this excess. Through a collective riso printed A3 poster bundle we will amplify diverse interpretations of enough and call out for action.

The one-week workshop takes the urgency of ¡BASTA! (enough) both as a political cry and an aesthetic practice. At a time marked by ecological collapse, patriarchal violence, and extractive economies, the questions are not only how much is enough, how destructive is enough, how deep is enough, but also how to inhabit and position ourselves in this excess. How do we dwell in sufficiency, in refusal, in collective re-imagination? Following Ailton Krenak’s proposal of ideas to postpone the end of the world, we activate collective tools - such as a replicable repertoire of risograph posters - as technologies of repair and imagination for living otherwise.

Through a series of collective exercises - street walks, readings, discussions, printing sessions, and encounters with artists, printers, and migrant activist collectives in Berlin - participants will be introduced to the risograph process and encouraged to collectively create a Glossary of ¡BASTA!: a print bundle of A3 posters, slogans, and messages. We will use the characteristics of a photocopy-like printer to amplify, materialize and replicate diverse interpretations of enough and call out for action.

In this way, we will inhabit the multiple meanings of ¡BASTA! As interruption, as refusal, as repair, as re-existences, as blossomings. The final outcome will combine a risograph printed poster collection and a collective flyposting intervention in the city: a wall of ¡BASTA! (Enough), assembled as a temporary urban archive of collective voices. In parallel, we will host a public assembly in the open space to expand the university and share these sentient-thoughts, processes, and creative outcomes

Course leader

Dr. Elizabeth Gallón Droste & Juliana Toro

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