City 01 Skate Days, 2019. Castillo de Santa Bárbara. Alicante. Spain. Skate in the Santa Bárbara Castle

Leonardo Brandao (2006), in his thesis on skate, develops the concept of sliding bodies: «In the difficulty found in constructing a single category that accounts for the analyzed bodies (narcissistic, dominating, disciplined, communicative), it was preferred to call them sliding because that metaphor adds a lot to the categories mentioned in that it points to a new way of understanding them, that is, bodies that slide through conceptualizations, classificatory schemes and labels. These are extremely careful individuals with an aesthetic that wants to be rebellious, subject to the handling of the specialized media, but also thirsty for desires and expressiveness. Bodies that defy danger and make appropriate space a terrain for sensitive experimentation.

Skater practice, like other bodily practices, involves in itself the need and the possibility of knowing and understanding the body itself and its ways of relating to space, time and others. In the worked analytical referent, the references to the body and the corporal are of the order of possibility and limitation.

Quote. Jorge Ricardo Saraví. «Cuerpos skaters: una investigación en Ciudad de La Plata», 2014

City 00Skate days (CSKD) is a project of great scope on the world of skateboarding, raised from a vision that tries to go beyond its sporting side. I focus attention on aspects that reflect a subcultural model, very diverse moments and contexts, attitudes and signs that tell us about that experience: fashion, graffiti, gestures, local environments, lifestyles, group interaction, youth and contemporary identities. But it also opens up to other perspectives: the visibility and roles of women in the world of skateboarding, the relationship between skate and social integration based on community actions, the practice of skate in developing countries, the reinterpretation of urban culture from the expressiveness of very different local identities.

City 00Skate days (CSKD) es un proyecto fotográfico sobre el mundo del skate, planteado desde una visión que intenta ir más allá de su vertiente deportiva. Centro la atención en aspectos que reflejan un modelo subcultural, momentos y contextos muy diversos, actitudes y signos que nos hablan de esa vivencia: moda, graffiti, gestos, entornos locales, estilos de vida, interacción grupal, identidades juveniles. Pero también se abre a otras perspectivas: la visibilidad y roles de la mujer en el mundo del skate, la relación entre el skate y la integración social a partir de acciones comunitarias, la práctica del skate en países en vías de desarrollo, la reinterpretación de la cultura urbana desde la expresividad de muy diversas identidades locales.