2026
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.
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Intx'Apain
Intx’Apain is an urban art festival that, over three days, transforms around ten walls across the neighbourhood into spaces for creation and connection, bringing together local and international artists and the neighbourhood community. The Basque language will be at the heart of the murals, guided by the central theme Zein da zure hitza? (“What’s your word?”), an invitation to artists and residents to take words as a starting point for creating, sharing and coming together.
Music, rap, bertsolaritza (Basque improvised sung poetry), breakdance, workshops and participatory activities developed in collaboration with ikastolas (Basque-language schools), local associations and community organisations will accompany the artistic interventions, turning the festival into a collective experience.
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Urumeako Atlas Emozionala - Erakusketa
Body, Memory and Riverbed
This Atlas does not follow a river: it immerses itself in it.
The exhibition invites us to read the Urumea through those who have inhabited it and the gestures that remain embedded in its memory. Bodies bent over the water to wash clothes. Bodies pulling oars in rhythm. Bodies carrying sand, bottling oil or rolling tobacco. Bodies dancing at local festivities, holding flags, crossing bridges time and again until these crossings became part of everyday life.
The river thus emerges as an organism in constant transformation, but also as a place marked by the traces others have left behind. Some remain, while others have disappeared along with the trades, factories, forms of leisure and ways of relating to its waters. Exploring the Urumea through the body also means asking ourselves what remains of all this, and what kind of relationship we wish to build with the river from now on.
This exhibition marks the culmination of a project developed over three years. It began with a research process that gave voice to local residents. Through surveys, group interviews and participatory workshops, we gathered the perceptions of the people of San Sebastián regarding the river that runs through their city: memories, images, sensations, historical information and more.
Drawing on these testimonies, we created a written atlas, a publication comprising ten narratives that explore the history of the river, the city and the ways in which people inhabit these two places. Now, these ten narratives take on a different language as they enter the exhibition space: words give way to images, sound and movement, revisiting the same events through other ways of telling and experiencing them.
Helga Massetani Piemonte
Curator: Helga Massetani Piemonte
Heritage Collections Management: María José Noain Maura
Texts: Helga Massetani Piemonte and María José Noain Maura
Emotional Management in the Art Ecosystem: Towards a Decalogue of Good Cultural Practices
Bitamine is launching a research project on the emotional, professional, and relational conditions that shape the artistic and cultural ecosystem in Gipuzkoa.
The project starts from a simple yet necessary question: how do precarity, uncertainty, open calls, production rhythms, and sector dynamics affect the everyday lives of the people who sustain this ecosystem?
Through this questionnaire, we aim to gather experiences, perceptions, and forms of discomfort, while also identifying practices of care, strategies of resistance, and possible paths for transformation. The ultimate goal is to develop a collective diagnosis and a decalogue of good cultural practices that can contribute to a more sustainable, fair, and caring cultural sector.
The research is coordinated by Helga Massetani Piemonte (Bitamine) and developed in collaboration with:
Mónica Crespo Doval
Degree in Sociology, Academic Secretary and Tutor Lecturer at UNED-Bergara.
Larraitz Nerea Zumeta Sánchez
PhD in Psychology, researcher and tutor at UNED-Bergara.
If you work professionally within the artistic and cultural sector in Gipuzkoa, we invite you to participate.
👉 Access the questionnaire: https://form.typeform.com/to/ijbBLP7I
Estimated completion time: 15-20 minutes.
Your participation is anonymous and will contribute to generating collective knowledge about working and living conditions in the cultural sector.