The space of Can Batlló will host starting from April 25 the fifth edition of ULLAL, a transfeminist festival of incisive photography "that bites reality from grassroots struggles, resistance practices, and dissident bodies and identities". With this event, in the Sants neighborhood of Barcelona, L'Ullal Fest wants to occupy, through photography, "the dominant imaginary" and "put the focus on collective and social actions that, through daily and organized exercises of resistance, generate more desirable life alternatives".
However, from the organization they explain that they want to create a new visual memory, relative to social struggles, to grassroots movements and to dissident bodies and identities, becoming a catalyst for this energy and generating a visual archive that, from the present, continues to account for these resistances.
The festival is self-managed and all its economy is directed to facilitate the production of the works and the exhibition. All in all, because its organizers denounce that photography “should not be a privilege, nor exhibitions, a monopoly of museums”. Furthermore, they defend that self-management and self-organization are also a creative practice and a form of “CARE(torship)” that they consider fundamental when articulating counter-hegemonic artistic and cultural projects.
A festival open to everyone
At L’Ullal Fest, all people who use photography as a means of expression, professionally and non-professionally, can participate. They do so, however, giving priority to transfeminist artistic perspectives and productions generated from other gazes that are not cis, white and heterosexual men. The will is to give space to narratives that have to do with other gazes, that are not the hegemonic, nor the usual ones, individual, collective and artistic team gazes of any age and without restriction by origin or residence. The call, for this year, is already closed.
A program loaded with activities
Saturday, April 25, will see the inauguration of the exhibition, the presentation of the festival, and a party, called Ullalfest(a), with a surprise performance, DJ ESPUELILLA, Gigi Morralla, and Awa na boka. But the festival and the exhibition will extend until May 25 with several guided visits to the exhibition of presented photographs and other activities. One of the peculiarities of this event is that all categories have to do with teeth. There is, for example, a section called DCrooked teeth, Bites or, even, Making saliva.
The exhibition features the collaboration of Aldarull, Colze a Colze, La Polilla, Negra Mosca, Editorial Porno Amateur, Memòria, Lluita i Resistència, La Cocota, La SAL, Tattoo Circus Karcelona, La Màquia and Femart.
