Medialab Matadero presents The Metabolic Archives. A growing and open compendium of operational resources, including events, technologies, institutions, maps, conceptual models and critical questions that aims to question the metabolic regime we have in order to ask ourselves about the metabolic regime we need.
This workshop seeks to become a meeting place where people meet periodically and an open working group is formed to rethink, from the collective and the collective, the daily practice and the struggles against the heteropatriarchy. All those people willing to share their vulnerability, non-binary identities, women self-identified women and cis men with a desire to listen are invited and welcome.
The participants of the program will present their project proposals—works that are the result of three weeks of collective exploration, shaped by workshops, talks, and performances centered around xenovisuality as an expanded field of thought, creation, and critical imagination.
Starting at 21:00, the closing event moves to Siroco ArtLab, where some of the proposals will unfold in dialogue with sound—embracing a celebration of the collective fabulations woven throughout the program.
In this way, the XenoShow becomes both a vanishing point and an invitation to once again inhabit the
This programme involves groups created by public call to develop collaborative projects to be presented on 12 June 2025.
Thursday 29 May
16:00 - 16:15 Welcome by XVS. (Mar Osés, Esther Rizo and Pilar del Puerto)
16:15 - 17:00 Labour and affective matter in domestic realism. Carmen Lael Hines
17:00 - 17:30 Computers. XVS (Mar Osés, Esther Rizo and Pilar del Puerto)
17:30 - 18:30 tac tac: psychoacoustics of digital writing. Antonio Ferrerira
18:30 - 19:00 BREAK
19:00 - 20:00 PORNO-WOMB. Regina Carolina and Miguel Pardo Bachiller
Friday 30 May
16:00
Medialab-Matadero Madrid