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︎SPACE OF ALL
︎PROGRAMME
︎︎︎FOUR DIMENSIONS AND A MONOLITH: LICHEN MYTHOLOGY
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︎SPACE OF ALL
︎PROGRAMME
EL PRESENTE COMO FORMA DE UN CUERPO AUSENTE
︎︎︎FOUR DIMENSIONS AND A MONOLITH: LICHEN MYTHOLOGY
In this new program, we sought to give continuity to the activities carried out in the space and its different areas of work, through a new curatorial cycle that would frame the actions to be carried out.
The last curatorial experience that gave shape to the 2022–2023 program, called “El club de las malas hierbas” (The Weeds Club), was based on research by Todo por la Praxis. We wanted to replicate this working methodology in this new cycle, inviting different artistic agents to research, produce work, and engage in critical thinking in reciprocity with the interests of the collective.
On this occasion, we planned, researched, and developed a new curatorial cycle, in which we have begun our first activities and projects. To this end, we extended an invitation to artists, researchers, and curators, as well as social collectives, to jointly address the issue of absent bodies in Spain. The issue of the body from the perspective of an absence that, by opposition, implies a presence, as a metaphor for visual persistence. We sought to develop projects that would explore this tension from a historical and contemporary perspective, navigating themes such as disappearances, the no names (N.N), bodies and mutilations, repatriations, mass graves, bodies made invisible by their dissidence, bodies and sexual diversity, works on the body as a metric measure, as well as projects that explore the idea of the city or territory as a body affected by the extraction of resources and/or by its permanent modification. Various relationships emerge from these notions of the body as symbolic matter traversed by human and non-human factors, which were left open for each guest to explore from their own aesthetic interests in research and artistic creation.
Based on this conceptual framework, our goal with this program was and is to bring together research and productions that generate diverse narratives and actions in space. We believe it is important to give this project direction and meaning because it proposes another way of understanding our activities, offering a dialogical, collective, and collaborative perspective that describes, organizes, and presents productions in harmony with each other and, in turn, with the work processes of the collective that works in and manages the space, making it reciprocal.
As a strategy, for each programmatic area, we have invited an experienced curator to carry out a project in which they invite one or more artists to undertake a creative process under their research, working in the space as a production workshop, research space, and short- and long-term residencies. All activities related to these projects include public openings with food cooked by the authors themselves, to showcase the results of each process. This program is also enriched with public activities such as laboratories, workshops, presentations, dissemination, and discussions open to the public.