Steal this Book
Books have always been related to knowledge and the transmission of knowledge. The loss and destruction of books (the disappearance of the Library of Alexandria, the burning of books by the Nazis or as a plot point in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, among others) has been identified with the end of a civilization or […]
Building stories
We need stories. Our collective imagination works from narratives that, from the stories we are told as children before going to bed, help us to distinguish our emotions and overcome our fears. Stories accompany us throughout our lives. Politics also creates stories, as a tool of political communication that allows us to build a novel […]
Contemporary Revisions
CONTEMPORARY REVISIONS This year Loop is fifteen years old and brings with it a gift, under the guidance of two classics of the genre, Eugeni Bonet and Antoni Mercader (spoiler alert: next week we’re interviewing them at A*DESK). One that delves into the history of the pioneers of video and brings to light documents […]
A*DESK: marcas de escritorio. BABELIA – EL PAÍS
A*DESK: marcas de escritorio, por Bea Espejo Babelia – El País, 20-4-2017
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 […]
