In the face of biocontrol policies and in response to necropolicies, denial of rights and a state of alarm that has failed to ensure any type of well-being, quite the opposite, it has highlighted a significant humanitarian and affective unrest, worsening the situation of inequality and isolation of certain collectives.

A critical approach also to neoliberal discourses of Enjoyment understood as a space for consumerism, homogenisation and alienation.

In our bodies there is a vital need for enjoyment, and there are reactions they generate in order to resist the imposition of conditions and needs unconnected to us and our needs. Thanks to these requests of situated existence, we are going to generate a collective enjoyment space where all those reactionary

impulses will
get together to
express that great
collective force of
enjoyment. By means of
dance, singing,
performance,
written and
spoken word, cooking, and
a number of practices
for individual and
collective enjoyment.

Harassed we enjoy escaping

Repressed we enjoy our offenses

Hurt we enjoy our rage

WITHOUT PERMISSION, WITH DUE RESPECT

CAN WE LISTEN TO THE SENTIENT BODY?

In our bodies there is memory, of struggles generated by bodies and communities to resist the imposition of conditions and situations unconnected to us and our needs.

Thanks to all these memories of rebel enjoyments, we are going to generate a space for collective enjoyment where the body can remember its force. By means of dance, singing, performance, written and spoken word, cooking, and a number of practices for individual and collective enjoyment.

There is a vital need for care in our bodies, for community care, so that the bodies are able to resist the imposition of conditions and situations unconnected to us and our needs. Enjoying is also building another kind of communities by unlearning violent practices and invoking critical, political and playful ways of doing. Thanks to these enjoyments that take care of us we are going to generate a space of collective well-being where bodies are defended and can be at ease. By means of dance, singing, performance, words, cooking, and a number of practices for individual and collective enjoyment. During these times of pandemic and new and old lockdowns, enjoying while care-taking and care-taking while enjoying is also a political act.

We enjoy so we can keep strong
Enjoying scares death away
We enjoy so we can stay alive
We enjoy, we grownups and children

We enjoy so we can resist

In community
In intimacy
With ghosts
Cataplasms
Miniskirts
Maxiclothes

This manifest was elaborated by Nancy Garín and Diego Falconi, during the collective work process of Catalyst 1 GOZADERA.