Mario Bellatin’s novel The School of Human Pain revolves around the questions of representation and pain, delving into the complex relationship between art, trauma, and violence. If pain is inevitable and omnipresent, what can we do with it?  “Now that you find yourself far away, allow me to tell you, here, surrounded by dozens of corpses, that there is no goal. Sorry, actually, yes: to make a book", writes Bellatin. Using The School of Human Pain (composed of rules and scenes), as a guiding codex, as well as other curated materials to build upon, participants will generate writings and collages that will form part of an ever-growing Archive of Pain. It’s an invitation to a live open reading of Bellatin’s fractured book, to generate new writing (alphabetic and pictographic), reading and writing as an act of archeological speculation and translation, creating fragments of new languages, possible ways of representing human pain –it’s causes, context, and consequences. This evento is hosted by Biblioteca Popular Bruce Lee

Biblioteca Popular Bruce Lee is an artisanal press created by Erasmo Pantoja and Mónica Mejía in Cali, Colombia. This organism encourages the construction of an uncertain and dispersed library through handmade publications in small, numbered print runs, functioning as a collaborative crucible for writings, exhumations, and translations.