Date: 21 May
Time: 4:30 to 7 pm
Length: 2 1/2 hours
Venue: CA2M Museum
Advance registration via the form starting on 14 May at 6:30 pm

All cities have places that are invisible to the public eye, islands that contain their own landscapes, laws, inhabitants and stories. One of them is the Lost and Found Office, whose records catalogue collections that talk about us: fans, rugs, mirrors, telescopes, ukeleles and hundreds of other items, all assembled there by chance.

What is the story of each of these objects? What is the place housing them like? Who are the invisible agents who work to find and recover them? It is possible to imagine the life of a city and its inhabitants via the things they’ve left in their wake?

In this session, we’ll create a Parallel and Temporary Lost and Found Office. We’ll become its workers. We’ll explore the bounds of the known world through its interstices. We’ll shine a torch on its missing domains.

Participants should bring things from their homes; they can be things used every day or extraordinary things, new or old, real or invented. They will all become part of the PTLFO collection.

Activity guide:

Carolina Arabia was (almost) born on the banks of a river called Caraguatá in the Paraná Delta in Argentina. This may be why she likes magnolia trees, guineafowl, stilt houses, flooded woods and the word sudestada (Southeast windstorm). She taught for many years at a literary workshop for children located in the neighbourhood of Buenos Aires with the most trees. She used to live in Colombia and now lives in Spain, where she also teaches. She won the Finestres Essay Award in 2022. De cantos y animales (Menguantes, 2024) is her first book.