Mark


Nowadays, women’s security, sexuality and reproductive rights are at stake not only in Poland but around the world. We have witnessed an extraordinary growth of authoritarian far-right governments that in close alliance with religious leaders, have declared war on the so-called “gender ideology,” a slogan that allows them to attack fundamental sexual liberties and also reproductive rights. Although it is not a military war, is as violent as subtle, and it has a direct effect on women’s bodies.


In Poland, women are waging a battle against the anti-abortion laws of the church-state collusion that rules the country. This antagonism took shape in the massive Black Protest of 2016, in which one hundred thousand women took to the streets, managing to make the government back down. The question we posed in this project was how to keep this protest active, repared to respond to new attacks to come from the patriarchal state.
    Thus, CaldodeCultivo articulated a group of five Polish women, with whom we experimented what a continuous and daily protest could be like.



We created a series of improvised performances/protests that took over the public space interrupting everyday life. The Black Venus Protest confronted Polish society by making present the struggle for women's rights on a daily basis. The project is both a performative gesture and a political demand; it functions as an insurgent aesthetic cell capable of being easily replicated by other women elsewhere. During these two years, several cells arose in other Polish cities, thus keeping the Black Protest always active, and ready for battle.





“BLACK VENUS PROTEST IS LIKE A “BOMB” IN THE CITY.
WE MUST ORGANIZE AND PENETRATE INTO THE FABRIC OF THE CITIES,
DISTRICTS AND NEIGHBORHOODS OF ALL POLAND,
BEING CONSTANT IN THIS ACTION EVERY DAY.
WE, THE COMBATENT WOMEN, ARE CREATING OUR OWN REALITY.
WE TAKE THE STREETS IN SMALL GROUPS TO SHOW OUR NEEDS,
OUR WISHES, AND OUR OPPOSITION.
WE DO NOT ACCEPT THE OBJECTIFICATION OF OUR BODY AND MIND.
EACH ONE OF US WANTS TO DECIDE ON HIMSELF!
STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN!
EACH ONE OF US IS A BLACK VENUS, JUST LIKE ME AND YOU.
LET’S GO TO THE STREETS TO SHOW OUR FORCE!”









CALDODECULTIVO:
Unai Reglero
Gabriela Córdoba Vivas
Guillermo Camacho.
BLACK VENUS:
Magdalena Mellin
Monika Wińczyk
Katarzyna Pastuszak
Magda Doborzyńska
Agnieszka Sprawka
Production:
Cameras: 
Guiillermo Camacho, Alina Żemojdzin & Artur Madafski
Sound: Maciej Maćkowski
Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art of Gdańsk. 2016—2018



Lanzamiento: Jueves 20 de Marzo, 19h.
Mèdol, Centre d’Arts Contemporànies de Tarragona
Diálogo entre CaldodeCultivo (Unai Reglero y Gabriela Córdoba Vivas)
y Martí Sales



CALDODECULTIVO
EJERCICIOS
DE RESITENCIA




CALDODECULTIVO es un colectivo cuya práctica artística busca fortalecer las luchas que oponen resistencia a la dominación capitalista, colonialista y patriarcal. En sus proyectos despliegan dispositivos de contrapropaganda y agitación popular con los que ejercitar, cual deporte de combate, la imaginación política radical.
    Este libro es una narración, a muchas voces, de la experiencia del colectivo a partir de un recorrido por sus proyectos más significativos de la década 2013-2023. En él, además de CALDODECULTIVO, diversxs investigadorxs y activistas reflexionan sobre una práctica artística que es, como se comprobará, necesariamente conflictual.
    Aquí se levantan las imágenes de unos proyectos que todavía hoy son afectos y resistencias en movimiento. Si estas páginas logran agitar a quien las lea, con parte de la fuerza con que agitó a quienes vivieron los proyectos, su labor estará hecha.
Unai Reglero y Gabriela Córdoba Vivas
(Ed.) Diana Obando

Ensayos de Marta Cabrera, Matt Kenyon, Luis Fernando Medina “Luscus”, Javier Bassas, Halima Afi Cassells, Yolanda Chois Rivera, Andrés Góngora, Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, Fernando Escobar Neira, Katarzyna Pastuszak, Magdalena Mellin & Monika Wińczyk. (Fot.) Guillermo Camacho

[Traducció de l’edició en català: Martí Sales i Carles Serrat]
Marzo 2025
ISBN: 978-84-09-66713-0
Mèdol Centre d’Arts Contemporànies de Tarragona

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15.6×21.6 cm
352 pág.
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ATTICA
NOW

Buffalo, NY. (2021-2022)

















LA TOMA
DEL COLISEO

THE STORMING OF THE COLISEUM
Cali (Colombia) 2018






PROTEST

Gdańsk (Poland), 2017.










ESTE PREDIO

NO SE VENDE

THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE
Bogotá (Colombia), 2016.







MEDELLIN
SOBRE TODOS 

MEDELLIN OVER ALL
Medellín (Colombia) 2015—2016





COMANCHE

EL COMANDANTE DEL CARTUCHO
COMMANDER OF THE HOMELESS
Bogotá (Colombia) 2015





YO NO SOY UNA PUTA
YO SOY LA PUTA
Y PARA USTED:
SEÑORA PUTA


Mrs. WHORE
Bogotá (Colombia), 2014.







TERRA
PROM
ESA

PROMISED LAND
Tarragona (Spain), 2014.






LA TOMA
DEL MAMBO

Bogotá (Colombia), 2018.















DISTORSIÓN
LIBRE


FREE DISTORTION
Tarragona (Spain) 2010-2017