Regaining control
Regaining control Autogestió (Self-Organization) is an exhibition that could perfectly well be titled “The world according to Antonio Ortega”, because it is a show that allows us to enter into the mind (I believe Víctor Valentín described it just like this) of its maker, Antonio Ortega, one of the most lucid insights into the current art […]
Sex, desires, utopias, architectures and control
Sex, desires, utopias, architectures and control We’ve got a problem with sex. Instead of considering it just another aspect of life, something natural, the object of enjoyment, communication and intimacy, for society today sex is a taboo or rather an element susceptible to be exploited commercially. Repression and/or exploitation. This is why it is […]
The music of our lives
A few weeks ago, TV3 broadcast Jaume Bratolí’s documentary, Les músiques d’Obama, a journey through the legislature of the outgoing president of the United States, based on the music that has accompanied him at every political moment and has been consciously used to reinforce certain messages, from the hip hop of “Yes, we can” to […]
OIL FROM AN OLIVE TREE by Pep Vidal
Pep Vidal is a scientist as well as an artist, and he develops his artistic work in the space of intersection, of encounter and disagreement between both ways of seeing the world. Infinitesimal changes and measurements are his main starting points when defining his projects. One of the things that the scientific and artistic fields […]
In his own voice
“Instead of a hermeneutics, we need an erotics of art.” This is how Susan Sontag concluded her essay “Against Interpretation” (1964), in which she alluded to the need for all commentary on art to make the works – and by analogy, our personal experience – more real. A good way to achieve this is to […]
Contemporary Prisoners. Working and selling yourself
Contemporary Prisoners. Working and selling yourself Work and how the nature of work is transforming, what is considered to be work, where, and when it happens, working relations and the implications of all of this is a subject that concerns us, giving rise to much reflection by economists, sociologists and naturally, artists. Harun Farocki, for […]
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution” are the words attributed to Emma Goldman, a well-known Lithuanian feminist and anarchist activist who was reprimanded for dancing too excitedly, questioning her seriousness and commitment to the cause. “I cannot believe that a cause that defends a beautiful ideal, such as […]
Burning onto a hard drive. Percentage completed 99%
Burning onto a hard drive. Percentage completed 99 % About the exhibition, reception, distribution, marketing, collection and preservation of digital works Moving images, and image-time are two of the vehicles more widely used to experience image in contemporary society. This is precisely why many contemporary artists work in this field. This type of image brought […]
Burning onto a hard drive. Percentage completed: 99 %
Moving images, and image-time are two of the vehicles more widely used to experience image in contemporary society. This is precisely why many contemporary artists work in this field. This type of image brought by technical devices of image generation and distribution, determines a extended perception of time, which is not unique and […]
Entrevista en TENDENCIAS DEL MERCADO DEL ARTE
¿Cuál fue su primer comisariado? Un proyecto de intervenciones artísticas en la escuela de arte la Llotja de Barcelona, que se titulaba “A veure. Quatre artistes a la recerca d’una escola”, en la que los cuatro artistas invitados (Chema Alvargonzález, David Falkner, Josep M. Martín, Mireia Massó) desarrollaron proyectos a partir del contexto específico de la […]
