Within the framework of the TIAF (Children, Adolescents, and Family Table) work, in the “Affective and Healthy Sexuality” group, different initiatives arose with the aim of improving the care for young people. Since, in our area, two public facilities coincided: Graner and the Sant Pere Claver Health Foundation, we thought that we could start lines of collaboration, contributing the expertise of each facility, to implement solid projects benefiting the youth of the neighborhood.
As Antonio Centeno says, “normality is an uninhabited word because, who inhabits it?”. With this project, we wanted to escape binary categories to challenge any imposed logic of normality and reflect on the complexity of community artistic work and within the health sector. Could the creative space provide a new meeting point between two realities, allowing adolescents to express themselves differently? How did adolescents elaborate their stories? What tools did they find outside the clinic to construct themselves as subjects? How were the voices and what experiences ran through the bodies of these young people? What were they telling us? What were they silent about?
From these and other questions, we wanted to reflect on mental health and the body (physical, institutional, mental, social, urban, emotional, political, etc.). A challenge for education understood as an investigative and expanded practice. We set out to explore creative processes that moved from the group to the individual, respecting different ways of doing and being together. To do this, in 2019 we carried out a 6-month project with the established playwright Roger Bernat. His work had been characterized by participatory or immersive theater, creating performances in which the audience took to the stage and became the protagonist.
With the collaboration of Pla de Barris.
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