Art Territori Data (ATD) 2026
Artistic research projects with hybrid processes and online results.
Alba Casas
Art Territory Data generates a framework for reflection and research about the idea of alternateterritories, in reference to places, media, and the positioning of artistic practice.
This framework answers the need to promote the understanding of visual culture, and the exchange of knowledge from plural spaces of action and delocalised or transperipheral spaces, which help expand the action and dissemination of cultural content beyond traditional circuits. It also responds to the variety of ways of attending and understanding the nuances of place, territory, or territorial context; placing the care of the people involved in the centre of cultural processes, and observing the need for multiple options of scale, identity, space, and time.
In 2026, this framework for reflection forms part of the debates surrounding the imaginaries created around liminal territories and the tensions that arise within the cultural context.
For this programme, continuing along the line of methodology that we share with the Laboratorio de Convocatorias Cuidadas (2021), we have once again opted for an alternative to an open call when selecting the project. Thus, on this occasion, we have invited Alba Casas, who wrote one of the shortlisted proposals in the Centro Huarte and Idensitat 2026 Estéticas Transversales call for research and artistic production residencies.
Workshop “deVenir Salvaje: imaginarios, cuerpos y territorios en fuga”
With Alba Casas as part of Art Territori Data (ATD)
3rd of July from 5pm to 8pm Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats
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The workshop has been conceived as a public engagement initiative for Alba Casas’s *deVenir Salvaje* project. This project explores imaginaries of the wild, as a cultural and political construct, as well as the relationship of the wild to bodies, territories, and ways of life which transcend normative categories.
To this end, the workshop suggests a collective approach to the idea of ‘the wild’ not as a natural essence or as a pre-cultural state, but as a relational position which emerges at the limits of systems of control, classification, and domestication. Using images, words, memories, and assemblage exercises, the session invites participants to consider how hegemonic imaginaries of the wild are constructed and what happens when these images shift, blend, or become destabilised.
Drawing upon a participatory methodology, the group will explore tensions such as nature/culture, human/non-human, urban/rural or norm/transgression, in dialogue with situated experiences of the body and of the land. The workshop has been conceived as a brief space for shared experimentation in which analysis and production unfold simultaneously.
The workshop requires no prior knowledge of contemporary art, critical theory, or visual practices.
deVenir Salvaje is a hybrid creature that moves through the chaos of the norm. It uses the wild as a compass to explore how its imaginaries have been constructed in liminal territories permeated by legends, absences, and mechanisms of exclusion. The project takes its starting point in contexts far removed from urban centres to engage with their memories, frictions, and ways of life, analysing their own coordinates, and confronting them with an external perspective.
The wild is understood here not as a natural essence prior to culture, but as a relational position produced within the framework of Western modernity and its systems of classification and control. Throughout history, the wild has served both as a way of imagining landscapes outside civilisation, and as a means of situating certain bodies and ways of life outside what is considered fully human or civilised.
Through the compilation and analysis of images, narratives, and imaginary beings, deVenir Salvaje recovers ambiguous and overlooked figures that do not fit into dichotomies such as nature/culture, human/non-human or centre/periphery. By activating these zones of indeterminacy, the project fragments the dominant maps and interpretative frameworks, opening up a space from which to re-imagine and experiment with other possible ways of inhabiting the land and living together.
BIO
Alba Casas is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher born in As Neves (Spain), a town situated on the border with Portugal. Deeply connected to the region, growing up as a queer person in a rural setting marked by political, social ,and geographical boundaries, has profoundly influenced her career. Living within boundaries and crossing them has nurtured her ability to move between disciplines, concepts, and geographies, giving rise to a hybrid practice that dissolves traditional divisions. Through the intertwining of artistic creation and academic research, her work engages with everyday life as a way of re-imagining new collective spaces and networks of solidarity.