No quiero ser un hotel
Meeting on artist residencies
3rd of Juny, 2026 from 5 p.m to 8 p.m at La Escocesa
Idensitat + La Escocesa + hablarenarte
How do we define what we do? What words represent our practice? How is it possible that we cannot find the precise word to define what we spend so much of our days doing?
I Don’t Want to Be a Hotel is a gathering on artistic residencies. A gathering that revolves around a publication of the same title, launched and shared for the first time through the voices of all the people who have given it words.
This gathering places hospitality, relationships with residents, the role of those who host, and what we call accompaniment at its center. It proposes questioning the pre-established frameworks of residency programs and moving beyond the idea of residency as mere accommodation or workspace, instead thinking of it as a context shaped by bonds, forms of coexistence, and community-building practices.
Both the publication and the gathering are the result of a shared process between hablarenarte, La Escocesa and Idensitat, initiated in 2023 and developed through a series of encounters under the title desde este ahora.
At the end of the talks, the resident artists of La Escocesa, andi icaza-largaespada and Yazel Parra, will offer a light snack.
Participants include Roser Colomar, Irati Irulegi, Flavia Introzzi, Emma Brasó, Alba Colomo, Clara Piazuelo, Idoia Zabaleta, Itxaso Corral Arrieta, Ona Bros, Yazel Parra and andi icaza-largaespada.
Bios
Ona Bros works from a political attention to images as catalysts of complex semiotic, technical, and material configurations. Her practice is situated and embodied; she researches through lived experience and relationality, from a queer way of inhabiting and a transfeminist sensibility. She works with photography, video, writing, and live arts, placing these materials in dialogue with distant epistemic fields in search of narratives capable of fracturing — perhaps briefly — the present. She holds a degree in Art History from the Universitat de Barcelona, graduated in Photography from the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya, and completed a Master’s in Artistic Production and Research at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Itxaso Corral Arrieta is an artist whose practice unfolds across live arts, performance, writing, publishing, and educational and artistic research contexts. Her work inhabits the intersections of the scenic, pedagogical, and experimental, exploring forms of embodied, sensitive, and relational knowledge. She trained in Journalism and Performing Arts in the Basque Country, later expanding her studies in Film and Performance Studies at the University of Kent and at the École Jacques Lecoq. She later completed the Master’s in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture (UCLM and Museo Reina Sofía) and the Independent Studies Program (PEI) at MACBA. She is currently developing a doctoral research project she calls Paranormal Doctoral Thesis.
Idoia Zabaleta is a choreographer. At the Faculty of Biology, she specialized in ecosystems and population dynamics. In the 1990s she studied new dance and improvisation. Since 2000 she has developed her own work, and since 2008 she has co-created and co-directed the artistic residency space Azala, located in the village where she lives in southern Álava, Lasierra. Since 2019 she has been part of the editorial team of Borradores del futuro, a collection of fables imagining the future through concrete experiences. In 2023, the artists’ cooperative Tractora Koop published Foku 2, a reflection on her artistic trajectory. In 2024–2025 she is an associated artist at Azkuna Zentroa.
Yazel Parra Nahmens is a Venezuelan performer, researcher, and cultural mediator. She defines herself as a deconstructed actress/cultural worker. She completed postgraduate studies (Master’s and PhD, UAB) on the political and poetic possibilities of contemporary theatre created within marginalized communities, and attended the Independent Studies Program at MACBA (2023–24). Her current practice investigates artistic languages through the materiality of the body and everyday life surrounding food, work rhythms, and domestic knowledge, seeking to listen to the questions that emerge and how they propose other forms of cultural mediation.
andi icaza-largaespada (Amiskwacîwâskahikan, 1994) They is a Nicaraguan visual artist, researcher, and facilitator with ties and responsibilities in Central America, so-called Canada, and queer and displaced communities in the Global South. Their multidisciplinary practice intersects image, installation, materiality, and ritual, developing a poetic, political, and affective ecology of dissident (dis)orientations to grief, migration, history, and territory. This ecology seeks to articulate situated, translocal, and embodied narratives, as well as forms of resistance to extractivism and necropolitics. They collaborates constantly with human and more-than-human individuals, past, present, and future, and bases their (continuous) learning on territory, peers, and mentorship, among other approaches.
hablarenarte is a non-profit organization based in Madrid that has worked since 2002 in the fields of cultural mediation, expanded curating, contemporary creation, and education. Through its own programs and collaborations with local and international organizations and agents, hablarenarte contributes to contemporary culture by helping build new imaginaries and advocating feminist, inclusive, and participatory ways of working. It also promotes research residencies through the Planta Alta space.
La Escocesa La Escocesa is a public center for artist residencies and contemporary art production located in Barcelona and collectively managed through the artists' association 'Asociación de Ideas EMA'. The project offers workspaces and resources for the development of artistic projects. As a space inhabited by the artistic community, it focuses on the shared generation of knowledge, care networks, and new ways of building and practicing cultural institutions. Its values stem from a feminist, intersectional, emancipatory, cooperative, and inclusive perspective, advocating for sustainability, experimentation, collaboration, and the development of community-based artistic projects. The La Escocesa team includes: Alba Colomo, Alba Feito, Pablo Santa Olalla, Stefania Lusini, Celina Poloni, Cristina Pastrana, Clara Piazuelo, Isabel Sánchez, Daniel Zucchelli, María Roy and Marian Vélez.
Activity carried out with the support of the General Subdirectorate for Visual Arts and Contemporary Creation of the Ministry of Culture of Spain