Trans
Cloud Atlas is a wonderful film by the Wachowski sisters in which stories and characters unfold, mix and meet again across time, races and genders (sexual and film). The concept of trans is a notion that goes far beyond gender and has to do with the flow and transit between identities, formats, politics, languages or […]
A*LIVE.Artistas, Estatus y otras contradicciones
Artistas, estatus y otras contradicciones
About Falsestuff and other hybrids
References, debts, homages, quotes, copies, plagiarism, remixes, cut-and-paste… Culture is always the result of mixtures, rewritings, contaminations and updates. Ideas appear and reappear again and again over time. Contexts and circumstances change and, with them, readings and interpretations. All of this is what Falsestuff is about, the play, written, directed and performed (among others) by […]
Sobre Falsestuff i altres híbrids
Referències, deutes, homenatges, cites, còpies, plagis, remixes, cut-and-paste… La cultura sempre és fruit de barreges i reescriptures, contaminacions i actualitzacions. Les idees apareixen i tornen a aparèixer un i un altre cop en el temps. Canvien els contextos i les circumstàncies i, amb elles, les lectures i interpretacions. De tot això va Falsestuff, l’obra teatral […]
SCREENS AND PILLS
Screens and Pills Catálogo / Catàleg / Catalogue Frederic Montornés escribe sobre el catálogo de Pantallas y Pastillas
Vulnerability and resistance
I remember that in the 1990s there were works that explored the body and exposed it in all its vulnerability. I remember sculptures and installations that were displayed in all their fragility, such as the light bulbs or the piles of sweets by Félix González-Torres, who shared empathy and loss with the spectators. One century […]
On multiple narratives and memory repositories
The hegemonic, Eurocentric and patriarchal vision of the world has long been dismantled. The art history we studied in the 20th century has been called into question, precisely because it excludes the multiple narratives that were simultaneously generated from non-Western cultures and geographies. We live in a world that is still hierarchical, but in which, […]
Collecting Contemporary Art: Public vs Privat in Europe and the Arab World
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ARCO’18
Article in A*DESK Every time I visit ARCO (or any other art fair) I can’t help but think about the difficult role of galleries at a time when artists, institutions, critics, curators and even collectors have long since redefined their roles. In a recent conversation, a German gallerist recalled how, in the 1990s, institutions and […]
PUNTOS DE FUGA / PUNTS DE FUGA / VANISHING POINTS
Vanishing Points Vanishing Points is a publication initiated by Cal Cego. Contemporary Art Collection and focused on 7 notions, related to the discursive lines of the collection. These 7 notions are also essential issues in the discussion of contemporary art nowadays. These are: Nomadism, knowledge, collaborate, process, intergenerational, beyond Hierarchies, Art-Life. Vanishing Points is […]
