ZAWP Bilbao. Cultural postproduction in postindustrial creation spaces

• Main Author: Izaskun Etxebarria Madinabeitia
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2018-02-01
• Series: ANIAV
• Subjects: Centros de creación; Cogestión; Políticas culturales; Entrevista; Resistencia y nuevos medios
• Online Access: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/aniav/article/view/9116

First of all, the book Free Culture of State by Jaron Rowan, describing a wide map with the different agents of the cultural system, is analyzed. Workers, partners, consumers or participants in culture and other agents and institutions are focused from three points of view: from culture as resource, as a right or as a common good. To achieve a transformation of the cultural scope, the author proposes that resources be made available to consumers, thus making them into producers.  Secondly, this idea contrasts with the analysis of Vílém Flusser, new media specialist. In his book The universe of technical images (although it should be noted that the context is very different), we recall that great part of the culture, today, is created and disseminated through devices that are mediating our messages. His analysis presents a scenario of illusion designed to facilitate consumption, but that only allows one type of surface production, since producers do not know the functioning of the black boxes.  Thirdly, we review the concepts of citizenship and public space from Public space as an ideology of Manuel Delgado. In it, the uses of these concepts are reconsidered, raising the need to speak of ‘sphere’ rather than ‘space’ to draw attention to interpersonal relationships and tensions between social groups that inhabit public space. This theoretical corpus frames the interview with Ruth Mayoral, a young sociologist at team ZAWP Bilbao. Currently, this center has funding from the main Basque institutions and emerged from the association La Hacería Arteak, along with the demand of the Association of Zorrozaurre Neighborhood to rehabilitate the neighborhood, which was supported by years of activity by the demand for permanence in the area.