BETTY BÉSALA: TO SERVE YOU MY WAY, I’VE GOT THE TIME

To serve you my way, I’ve got the time
Presentation by Betty Bésala
Tuesday, 24 February, 2026. 7:00 pm. 

Presentation by the Betty Bésala collective at the start of their residency at Bulegoa z/b. Their proposal To serve you my way, I’ve got the time was chosen, together with Raquel G. Ibañez’s Resonare fibris, in the 2025 open call for residencies. The jury was made up of Oier Etxeberria (artist, musician and curator), Dora García (artist) and the members of Bulegoa z/b.

BETTY BÉSALA: TO SERVE YOU MY WAY, I’VE GOT THE TIME

To whoever’s interested,

If you show up here, we will be appearing without any highfaluting words or eternal truths, but with the servitude involved in making an attempt.

You will have to excuse us if what is staged is hard to grasp. Everything occurs in a place of rehearsal: workshop, fiction, refuge, where time becomes distracted. We don’t aspire to know about the sun or great worlds, it’s enough to sound out that small world that continues to be something foreign, even when we think we understand it.

Starting from an undisciplined mixture – literature, fine art and whatever moves us – we seek the friction between fiction and reality, even at risk of incurring in excess, recital or a certain pretentiousness. In this way a theatre of nuances is formed: irregular and changeable. If you want to call it a place of transit, or a space for cruising with a few devils, we accept the image without too many explications.

Although we are now moving in the midst of confusion, we trust that something will become clear in the process. The gardener knows: when the shrub puts out sprouts, it’s not yet bearing fruit, but it promises branches. 

*Text inspired by “Prologue in Heaven” in Goethe’s Faust.

Betty Bésala is a collective made up of Màrius Peidroz and Carlota Lázaro; it arose from a meeting of friends confronting the need to abandon solitary work in favour of collective work.

It crystallised in the sound studio of the University of the Basque Country and has been present at different festivals (such as the MEM-Experimental Music Festival) and other cultural spaces.

Its work is centred on experimentation, focussing on the absurd, and sets out, above all, from theatrical and literary references. 

It’s a question of getting together to have a good time and do things that interest us.