Architecture of the Social Body in Artistic Practice

This workshop will be an encounter between art, public space and political thought practices in creative processes. We will focus on interdisciplinary crossovers to (re)think the space we inhabit in our daily lives and, from there, find starting points for artistic practice.

Historically, the configurations of spaces, both tangible and intangible (public and/or private), have shaped our bodies; from how we move to how we interact with spaces. Some bodies are easy to decode, but others possess or have acquired over time a character of great weight that has been incorporated unconsciously.

It is important to (re)think how a city, a neighbourhood, a street corner, a park, a river, a club, a café, in short public or private spaces, are loaded with experiences over time and are configured. Above all, we will reflect on everything that happens there, as well as which spaces take centre stage and which spaces occupy the periphery.

• In our creative and community processes, how do we begin to create a work of art?

• How do the spaces we inhabit influence this artistic research?

• Is it possible to create artistic experiences without considering public and/or private spaces?

• What are we interested in seeing, showing, telling?

• What do we put at the centre and what do we put on the margins?

This workshop will be a space open to theoretical, practical and collective discussion, where we will bring our bodies, architecture and thoughts together to address a number of topics:

• Centre - Periphery

• Colonialism - Neocolonialism - Decoloniality

• Art & Activism.

We will approach performance and/or community practice, not as the development of an art object that can be consumed by the art elite, but as the possibility of producing a new organisation of the everyday social field, an attempt to impact everyday life and establish new social and community ties, to investigate a common subjectivity. It is necessary to think of artistic production as a means of creating bonds, as a way of sharing a gesture, a moment, a temporal and spatial space.

Tiziano Cruz

Tiziano Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work brings together visual and theatrical language, performance and artistic intervention in public space.

Tiziano has been a grantee of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Instituto Nacional del Teatro ARG. He was a winner of the Bienal de Arte Joven 2019 and winner of the ANTI award, Finland, 2023; and in 2024 he won the ZKB Audience Prize at Zürcher Theatre Spektakel -Switzerland.

He is the founder of the Cultural Management Platform ULMUS, dedicated to the mediation between different cultural organisations in Argentina and neighbouring countries. He has worked as a Content Producer at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. His works have toured Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, United Kingdom, Turkey, Italy, Poland and the USA.

Applications

This workshop is for artists of all disciplines.

To apply please fill in this form attaching a CV (1 page max.) and a motivation letter/voice note/video (3.000 characters spaces included/3 mins max.).

Deadline to apply: 16 February 2026, midnight CET

Conditions

Workshop free of charge, lunches included.

Dates: compulsory to be present during the whole workshop

• Monday 30 March - 10:00 > 17:00

• Tuesday 31 March - 10:00 > 17:00

• Wednesday 1 April - 10:00 > 17:00

• Thursday 2 April - 10:00 > 17:00

• Friday 3 April - 10:00 > 17:00