esto también pasará

encounters on finitude

Esto también pasará is a space of intersection between art, thought, and experimentation around the cyclicality of life and death. From memory to decomposition, from the collective to the microbial, it seeks to open a place to imagine other forms of relationship with the end of bodies, bonds, and worlds.
 

program

7:30 to 19:30 | Community Practices for End-of-Life Care

This roundtable brings together diverse forms of knowledge and experiences of end-of-life care. Participants include Julia Campello and Irene Turiel, family doctors with specialist training in palliative care; Gloria Cagial, a member of the Buddhist community Casa Virupa; Ana Gonzalez Cabello, a Tibetan interpreter and translator of Buddhist teachings, and co-director of Casa Faro; Itziar G. Torres, who accompanies people through cancer and end-of-life processes and is the founder of Casa Faro; and Anna Vilamú, who explores death and grief through community art.

20:00 to 21:00 | Concert and Listening Session with Nathaniel Mann

In this session, experimental folk musician Nathaniel Mann brings together original and traditional songs with experimental sound interventions: sonic metaphors for death. Live music is one of the few spaces in which grief can be shared publicly. In the folk music traditions of the United Kingdom in particular, songs have long provided a space for stories of death, loss and remembrance to be passed down through generations and shared among strangers.

bios

Ana Gonzalez Cabello is an interpreter of Buddhist teachings. She studied History at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has pursued studies in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and the Tibetan language in India and France. She teaches meditation and philosophy from an intersectional perspective, with a focus on spiritual anti-extractivism. She is co-director of Casa Faro.

Anna Vilamú is a cultural worker and Biodanza SRT facilitator. She believes in the transformative potential of cultural initiatives rooted in and committed to their contexts. From this perspective, she has developed artistic projects in a range of formats and settings, including exhibitions, publishing and mediation projects in self-managed spaces, associations, educational institutions and art centres. Her practice has generally been collective, drawing methodologically on community-based creation, Biodanza tools and embodied research.

Julia Campello Coll works as a family doctor in Barcelona and has trained in palliative care through the Master’s Degree in Palliative Care at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Alongside her clinical practice, she pursues other interests, including illustration and dance, which enrich her sensibility and inform her approach to accompanying others. Her interest in palliative care and in accompanying people through the dying process began several years ago, during her residency in Family and Community Medicine in Granada, through her experience supporting patients in the rural area where she worked. Later, personal experiences of grief deepened her perspective on death and awakened a need to develop new tools for more holistic support throughout advanced illness, dying and bereavement, incorporating psycho-emotional and spiritual dimensions.

Irene Turiel works as a family doctor at the Gornal primary care centre in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. She is a member of the militant research collective Entrar Afuera, which seeks to think through and invent care practices by reflecting on and acting upon the relationship between public institutions and territories. The collective works with artistic and expressive languages as tools for transforming institutions and care practices. Her interest in palliative care began during her residency in Family and Community Medicine in Gijón and has been shaped by placements in palliative care services, a Master’s Degree in Palliative Care at the University of Valladolid, and an interest in approaches to accompanying the dying process grounded in other epistemologies and traditions.

Itziar G. Torres is a Gestalt-based relational art therapist specialising in illness and end-of-life processes. With more than ten years of experience accompanying creators and artists through creative processes, her work brings together art, psychotherapy and emotional exploration. She also coordinates the team of psychotherapists at Casa Faro and has developed her own practice in poetry and visual arts.

Gloria Cagial is a co-founder of the Buddhist community Casa Virupa. She is part of its educational team, works as a meditation instructor and is responsible for communications at the centre. With a background in philosophy from the University of Barcelona, she has devoted most of her career to teaching and communication. At LAC (Laboratory of Contemplative Arts), a residency centre for artists and thinkers, she also works as a curator of thought and literature.

Nathaniel Mann is an experimental composer, performer and sound designer. His wide-ranging artistic practice connects music and sound art. In 2019, he received the Paul Hamlyn Award, and in 2018 he was awarded an Arts Foundation Fellowship. His work Pigeon Whistles (2013), a flying orchestra of Birmingham Roller pigeons carrying whistles, won the George Butterworth Composition Prize in 2015. He is a member of the experimental folk trios Dead Rat Orchestra and Hack Poets Guild. The latter’s acclaimed debut album, Black Letter Garland (2023), was selected by The Guardian as one of the folk albums of the year. +info: Hack Poets Guild · Dead Rat Orchestra

‘This Too Shall Pass’ is a space for encounters around the cyclical nature of life and death, initiated by the DU-DA collective. Through a programme of workshops, residencies, discussion panels, performance and music, we propose embracing finitude as a pedagogical practice. The event continues on Saturday, November 21, at Hangar +info

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