Still life class. 1942. Dorothea Lange [SOURCE]
The project Extra-Ordinari will take place over the course of the 2025-26 season at La Virreina – Centre de la Imatge.
Following is the provisional calendar of activities:
1st session
Presentation of the project with a lecture by Jeffrey Swartz on various aspects of the subject, “Things Are the Way They Are for a Reason”, followed by an open discussion on teaching in university arts education.
- Date: 5 February
- Time: 7pm
- Place: Auditori LAB, Palau de la Virreina, Rambla 99, Barcelona
- Free Entry
2nd session
Creative contractures: Writing in the Face of Bureaucratic Reason
A conversation on precarious labour and other social conditions of institutional academic and cultural work, focusing on the world of literature.
- With the writer Sara Mesa
- Moderated by Professor Albert Jornet Somoza, Universitat de Barcelona
- Date: 3 March
- Time: 7pm
- Place: Espai 4, Palau de la Virreina, Rambla 99, Barcelona
3rd session
Presentation by Terra Poirier of her artist book project Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, followed by a participative workshop led by the artist with the aim of exploring how mentorship and mutual aid might sustainably support creative practices.
