Centro Cultural Carlos Blanco Aguinaga
The Carlos Blanco Aguinaga Cultural Centre (CBA) is a hub for culture and creativity that fosters spaces for gathering, creation and cultural engagement. At its core is a commitment to building bridges between culture and the public, promoting critical thinking, a diversity of artistic expressions and creativity.
PROJECTS IN WHICH I PARTICIPATE
ERTZETATIK
Habitar el margen
15 years of research, creation and cultural mediation
In 2026, Bitamine will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. Fifteen years working from Irun and the Bidasoa region as a space of borders, displacement and crossings. Fifteen years fostering processes of artistic research, publishing, cultural mediation and support through an independent practice deeply rooted in the local area.
Ertzetatik is a public event celebrating this journey not as a one-off occasion, but as a sustained practice over time. For Bitamine, inhabiting the margins has not been a circumstantial position, but a method: working at the boundaries of disciplines, on the fringes of institutions, and in the zones of contact between languages, communities and cultural contexts.
The programme brings together training, art installations, archiving, publishing, reflection and performance, offering a meeting place for cultural practitioners, artists, researchers and the public. Through displaced artistic practices, obsolete technologies, editorial narratives and contemporary oral traditions, the event highlights processes as a form of knowledge and dialogue as a collective endeavour.
Rather than looking back, Ertzetatik opens a conversation on how a cultural project is sustained over time: through self-management, resilience, trial and error, and community building.
Fifteen years on, the margin is not a periphery: it is a place of production, structure and the future.
A day of discussion, reflection and contemporary practices
Date: Friday, 5 June 2026
Time: 4.00 pm to 9.00 pm
Venue: Carlos Blanco Aguinaga Cultural Centre (CBA)
Centre for Culture and Creativity – Central Hall
Plaza San Juan Harria, s/n – 20304 Irun
https://www.irun.org/es/cba
Admission: Free entry subject to availability
Registration for the workshop on displaced artistic practices opens on 4 May 2026
4.00 pm – 6.30 pm / Lecture – Workshop
DISPLACED ARTISTIC PRACTICES
A theoretical and practical training programme addressing displaced or subaltern artistic practices that explore creative processes which are not the discrete production of objects, but rather those processes in which the raw materials are space, text and the artists themselves.
Blanca Sotos: BA in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid and MA in Publishing from the University of Salamanca. She has been running marcablanca since 2018 and is director of the MiraLookBooks International Fair of Publications Specialising in Contemporary Culture.
Ramón Mateos: Artist, curator and cultural manager. He coordinates the Madrid Network of Independent Spaces and has been director of Nadie Nunca Nada No since 2013. He acts as an advisor to galleries, private organisations and public institutions linked to contemporary art.
Registration for the workshop on displaced artistic practices
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6.30–7.30 pm / Opening
Editorial narratives of artistic research and processes
María José Noain Maura (Los Viajes de Aspasia)
Sergio Pérez Berasategi (Opuesto®)
Helga Massetani Piemonte (Bitamine)
1- Publishing, design and communication as an ideological practice
Presentation of Bitamine’s editorial project as a framework for thought and a tool for cultural mediation. An overview of the publications produced in recent years, addressing content, design, communication processes and the construction of a discourse aligned with the project’s identity: the margins as a place of production, displacement as a method and self-management as a means of sustainability.
During this session, the working process behind the conceptual and graphic development of the 15th-anniversary poster will be shared, showcasing the methodology, formal decisions and the dialogue between content and design.
2- Collaborative projects in which publishing functions as a tool for research and territorial activation, where archive, memory, emotional cartography and cultural production are articulated through a collaborative practice.
Emotional Atlas of the Bidasoa and Urumea - KulturBox #1 and #2
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7.30pm – 8.15pm / Discussion
Contemporary artistic practices for obsolete technologies
Raquel Meyers
Aleli Mirelman (Casa Planas)
Helga Massetani Piemonte
Presentation and discussion on artistic practices focused on the critical reactivation of obsolete technologies and digital languages from a contemporary perspective.
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8.15 pm – 9.00 pm / Performance
Oral score
Laura Sam (Spoken word)
Fran Dussourd (Staging)
A performance piece exploring orality, the body and the spoken word as political and poetic tools.
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21:00 / Party
📍The Museum Food & Drinks · Oiasso Museum
16:00 – 21:00 / Throughout the day
-Installation by Raquel Meyers
An audiovisual installation linked to artistic practices that work with obsolete technologies and experimental digital languages.
-Audiovisual archive
Continuous screening of material covering different moments, projects and processes developed throughout Bitamine’s history.
-The publishing space will serve as a reference, exhibition and archive space for the publications and editorial processes developed by Bitamine over the past fifteen years.