Tu mar tan pequeño y mi barca tan grande (en proceso)

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Project produced by Matadero Madrid. Image: Ángela Losa

It’s time to start building our own boat. We have already built many throughout history. Most of them for the sake of preservation, destined to supply food through fishing or to search for other lands and send labour to extract their resources. Other boats have protected us from being that labour for others.

Others are for enjoyment, such as the yachts of Tita Cervera or the Royal Family or cruise ships. Once Noah built one to give continuity to the species in his binary logic, Bas Jan Ader threw himself with another one to the edge of the Earth.

The boat allows us to avoid geography and law, it has a concrete purpose and an implicit movement. It is a space outside the system in which it has been built, but this purpose is limited by technical constraints. Chief among these is its buoyancy.

It is time to build our own boat. To do so, we must know which one we want to build.

Tu mar tan pequeño y mi barca tan grande is conceived as a meeting place for the cultural and neighbourhood collectives of Madrid that have been active in recent years. A question of survival regardless of possible institutional support: what strategies should we follow from now on in order to stay afloat?

The project begins with an open invitation to any collective interested in this cooperative action. The construction of the boat is a pretext to create a meeting point for them to get to know each other and share resources.

Once the boat is finished, we will call on all the participating collectives to gather around a reservoir where we will float our boat, eat something together on the shore and swim towards it to lie down and sunbathe or jump back into the water.

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