Olga Olivera-Tabeni
 

Punk Transhumance. How to Return to the Neolithic. Artist’s book. Published by Addend. 2022-2024.

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Punk Transhumance. How to Return to the Neolithic is a work published by Comissariat-Addend, based on a project by Olga Olivera-Tabeni (2022-2024) that focuses on the Giraldo family, a transhumant shepherd family from the Priorat region. The family consists of Dani Giraldo and Andrea Klinkert, their daughters: Eçkwe and Yu’a, and Emanuel, Dani’s brother.
The Giraldo family arrived in Catalonia from Colombia with the idea of living alternatively and reviving the ancient trade of transhumant shepherding, a job abandoned by the local population. The Giraldo family reopens and restores old, forgotten routes, viewing this ancient trade as a sustainable system for reusing food resources and cleaning undergrowth, something that will become essential in the future.

Punk Transhumance. How to Return to the Neolithic is an artistic investigation and fieldwork on these shepherds, their passageways, places of residence, and environment, focusing on the idea of prehistory in relation to the space they inhabit during summer—an ancient rock shelter that served as a refuge in prehistoric times, from the Epipaleolithic to the Neolithic period.

The final result of this project, however, is an open reflection, a transmedia narrative composed of various images and voices, with intersecting and overlapping perspectives, spanning from neoruralism and living on the margins to the deeper contradictions generated by the capitalist system itself.