NOTAR IV: Resolución
Madrid, Spain.
NOTAR is a residency program promoted by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and hablarenarte with the aim of promoting and consolidating research on critical pedagogies, experimental mediation and alternative institutionalism.
In its fourth edition, three on-site residencies in the city of Madrid are called for individual or collective research, for a period of three months from September to November 2025.
The MAR call for NOTAR residencies was open from 27.11.2024 to 02.02.2025 and 151 applications were received.
During the evaluation of the proposals received, two phases of assessment were implemented. In the first phase, all the proposals received were considered and each of them was evaluated by two members of a committee composed of Pepa Octavio de Toledo, Anne Raskin and Cristina Sáez (Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation), Mamen Adeva, Flavia Introzzi, Carlos Almela (hablarenarte), Alba Oller (Massa Salvatge) and Juan Pablo Bejarano (former NOTAR residents).
12 finalists were pre-selected for further evaluation by a jury composed of the organizations behind MAR: Pepa Octavio from Toledo, Cristina Sáez and Anneke Raskin from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation; Flavia Introzzi, Mamen Adeva and Carlos Almela from hablarenarte and Alba Colomo from La Escocesa.
It should be noted that in order to deepen the knowledge of the proposals submitted, in this edition online interviews were conducted with the 12 finalists, this not being an instance of evaluation but of dialogue between the parties.
For the transparency of the resolution and to facilitate its understanding, we have included the report of the process of dialogue and selection of the jury, which can be consulted at this link.
The final selection of 3 beneficiaries for the NOTAR research residencies is composed of the following projects:
Mediation policies and critical pedagogies
Jordi Ferreiro | El Público Interrogante: Un proyecto sobre mediación performativa
Inspired by the publication “The Questioning Public”, published by the MOMA in New York in the fall of 1947, the project approaches the study of performative mediation from both a historical and contemporary perspective, identifying precedents in artistic and mediating practices that have used the body, action and interaction as devices of signification and transformation.
This project pursues two objectives: on the one hand, to trace a genealogy of the practices and antecedents of performative mediation; on the other hand, to analyze how these strategies can function as tools for intervention in the contractual and normative structures that make work in cultural mediation precarious.
The project proposes to investigate performative mediation as a strategy to subvert the clauses, tenders and contractual systems that make cultural mediation precarious within institutions. We will analyze experiences in which this type of mediation has allowed to generate spaces of negotiation and resistance within institutional frameworks, exploring how certain singularities in performative mediation can operate as tactics to question labor and organizational models within the sector.
Mediation policies and critical pedagogies
María Laudes y Guiu Gimeno Bardis | Parkuir: metodologías desviadas
Research project that is structured through the proposal of a new sport: parkuir, an activity based on parkour, a sport with great potential when it comes to resignifying and relating to space, transcending the functional limits of architecture, but which contains a strong charge of gender and ableism.
Parkuir is a re-reading of this sport from a queer and critical perspective towards ableism, which uses the tools of mediation to generate community links that allow us to rethink public space and sports contexts as more friendly sites for dissidence.
Starting from the experience in the sport environment, from the body, gender and sexuality dissidence, we seek to show the violence that is present in sport, but at the same time, to think from the collective a new framework of possibility where to have fun and feel at ease, we will work from concepts such as drag, failure, non-productivity and desire. We will investigate with our fat bodies, squatting as much space as possible, our trans bodies, in a constant hacking of binarism; and these bodies will be in contact with many more bodies.
Archive and memory
Diana Castro y Marianela Vega | Abrir el archivo
The research project proposes an approach to contemporary archival practices, focusing on the creation of collective archives that integrate the memory of the body and everyday digital records as fundamental elements. It will seek to promote inclusive, participatory and affective narratives that make visible the stories and memories of migrant women. In this context, a key question arises: where and how are the stories of migrant bodies currently being archived?
The project will investigate the migrant body as a living archive, a carrier of experiences, affects and traumas that traditional archival practices tend to ignore. Through a participatory and situated methodology, this project aims to create horizontal spaces for dialogue and collaboration, where migrant women can re-signify their experiences and decide what to preserve, how to do it and for what purpose.
This approach not only encourages the active participation of communities, giving them back agency, but also addresses the ethical, technical and sustainability challenges linked to the use of digital tools in the creation of archives.
Among the 12 finalist proposals, the following nominations should be highlighted as alternates:
Miren Bayona and Paula Cárcamo | cuerpo, te tomo (relevo), alternate residency proposal seeks to enhance community strategies as well as recover previous practices of referents whose methodologies can provide applicable ways to recover meeting spaces.
Anaïs Florin | Custodiar lagunas. Encuentros y afectos en torno a la archivística autónoma, an alternate proposal that seeks the potential of artistic mediation in the activation of documentary collections in order to contribute to the expansion and multiplication of existing narratives, as well as the possibility of giving rise to spaces of affectation and collective reflection.
For more information, you can consult the jury's report at this link.
