Perra Perdida
- Project
- Performatic
- Cinematic
- Collage
- 2016
A performative guided tour on loss, disappearance, language and the activation of forgotten histories of communication, sexuality, and public life
Perra Perdida is a site-specific performative tour that unfolds through a sequence of urban locations in Barcelona marked by disappearance, displacement, and layered histories.
The tour begins at one of the last remaining public telephone booths in Plaça Catalunya—an obsolete infrastructure on the verge of removal—and continues through underground spaces: a former commercial gallery now absorbed into the metro system, and a disused cinema that survives as part of the public transport network. These sites are activated as carriers of memory, revealing how urban space holds traces of what has been erased or transformed.
The title Perra Perdida (lost bitch / lost dog) introduces a double meaning that connects abandonment, gendered language, and sexuality. It refers to the past use of the underground cinema for pornographic screenings, bringing into play suppressed histories of desire and marginal public cultures embedded in the city.
Process
The project originates in a workshop led by Francesc Ruiz at Hangar, where participating artists developed works in relation to Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona.
Within this framework, Perra Perdida was conceived as a site-specific response, focusing on spaces surrounding the square marked by disappearance, transformation, and overlooked histories.
The project unfolds as a guided performative walk led by the artist.
Through narration, movement, and pauses, the tour creates a shared situation in which participants collectively engage with the spaces and their latent histories. The artist operates as host and narrator, structuring proximity and attention while allowing multiple interpretations to emerge.
Rather than reconstructing a fixed narrative, the work activates fragments—spatial, linguistic, and historical—placing them in relation through the act of walking together.
Forms
Guided performative tour: a live, site-specific walk connecting a telephone booth, underground passages, and a former cinema, activated through narration and collective movement
Publication: a booklet listing titles of historical pornographic films, functioning as an alternative archive of the cinema’s erased programme
Flyers: distributed in the format of lost-and-found animal posters, circulating the project in public space and echoing its themes of disappearance, misplacement, and language
These forms extend the project beyond the walk, creating different modes of circulation and engagement.
Context
The project was presented in the framework of Perturbating Distribution, curated by Francesc Ruiz.
Credits
Concept and direction: Christina Schultz
Meeting point for the performance at the telephone cell.
Abandoned telephone cell with lost dog search paper.
Poster of lost doggie.
Talk & Walk to the former Cinema “X”.
Limited edition of a signed poetry piece, imitating a cinema programm with insinuative Porn Titles.
The former Cinema is now a private exhibition room by regional train line of Catalunya.
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