Observatorio de la luz / Observatory of Power
This drop-in session took place in Valverde de Burguillos (Extremadura, Spain) on July 17.19, 2025 alongside the Observatorio de la luz ("Observatory of power"), a curatorial programme[1] focused on energy communities in transitional times.
Inspired by the Queering Damage[2] system of formulaic/speculative writing, we proposed a two step method.
First, we started by 'interviewing the situation' through thinking-attuning system: literature/text fragments, questions, stickers and other graphic elements together with participants in the Observatory. For this, we developed a system in the form of a set of cards that hold these provocations.
The system was arranged around concerns about:
- energies in place,
- political economies,
- specific community set-ups,
- time spans,
- calculation systems.
Second, gathered the elements that emerged in step one and organised a writing/analysis session in which as a group we operated with the elements in the form of formulas.