Body and Pandemic: The Social Effects of Confinement

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Image courtesy of CCCB.

The pandemic has obliged us to reduce to the maximum physical contact with others, creating a social distance we are not accustomed to. The body has stopped being a space of relationship and intimacy to become a surface we must protect from any kind of contact. This is an unprecedented social situation in a globalized world where the habit of constant mobility, crowded spaces and the possibility of encounters and physical contact between bodies prevail.

From the desire for encounters, for moving and for other bodies, we have gone to isolation, confinement at home and suspicion about others. But what has this revealed about our relationships and way of life? What do we want to do with them? Can we use them to rethink the health of our bodies and of our human relations? And what possibilities of the digital technologies do we want to keep, or avoid, in a post-pandemic society?

In this session the queer writer, artist, and activist Wendy Delorme and the artist Joana Moll will talk about these questions in a discussion moderated by the philosopher and translator Xavier Bassas, which will take place simultaneously in Barcelona and Lyon both on-site and virtually.

Language: Catalan, French

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