Abundant Futures in Troubled Times
Works from the TBA21 Collection
October 19, 2022 –
March 5, 2023
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo C3A, Córdoba
Regina de Miguel, “Mater suspiriorum”, 2022. Design: Alex Grifeu.
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Abundant Futures in Troubled Times
Works from the TBA21 Collection
Works from the TBA21 Collection
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We invite you to delve into the TBA21 Collection with a new selection of works in the second chapter of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times. Celebrating the foundation’s twentieth anniversary, works by Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Domínguez, Olafur Eliasson, Rivane Neuenschwander, Tomás Saraceno, and Teresa Solar enter the exhibition’s vivid path, joining artists including Ai Weiwei, Allora & Calzadilla, Dana Awartani, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Elena Damiani, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Mathilde ter Heijne, Camille Henrot, Ann Veronica Janssens, Miler Lagos, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Regina de Miguel, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Olaf Nicolai, Plata con Semillas Silvestres I Belén Rodríguez I Víctor Barrios, Diana Policarpo, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Matthew Ritchie, Thomas Ruff, Simon Starling, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Thomas Struth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Janaina Tschäpe and Cerith Wyn Evans.
Abundant Futures in Troubled Times weaves together the voices of artists from different generations and multiple geographies in an attempt to imagine ecological futures through the prism of abundance and fullness. Curated by Daniela Zyman, the exhibition offers insights into the collecting and commissioning practices developed at TBA21 over the years and to encounter some of the most important works in the collection.
The opening of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times will be accompanied by a series of public activities, including commented visits to the exhibition, workshops, and performances by Rivane Neuenschander, Patricia Domínguez, on October 19, 2022 and Allora & Calzadilla, and Tarek Atoui on October 22, 2022.
We invite you to delve into the TBA21 Collection with a new selection of works in the second chapter of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times. Celebrating the foundation’s twentieth anniversary, works by Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Domínguez, Olafur Eliasson, Rivane Neuenschwander, Tomás Saraceno, and Teresa Solar enter the exhibition’s vivid path, joining artists including Ai Weiwei, Allora & Calzadilla, Dana Awartani, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Elena Damiani, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Mathilde ter Heijne, Camille Henrot, Ann Veronica Janssens, Miler Lagos, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Regina de Miguel, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Olaf Nicolai, Plata con Semillas Silvestres I Belén Rodríguez I Víctor Barrios, Diana Policarpo, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Matthew Ritchie, Thomas Ruff, Simon Starling, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Thomas Struth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Janaina Tschäpe and Cerith Wyn Evans.
Abundant Futures in Troubled Times weaves together the voices of artists from different generations and multiple geographies in an attempt to imagine ecological futures through the prism of abundance and fullness. Curated by Daniela Zyman, the exhibition offers insights into the collecting and commissioning practices developed at TBA21 over the years and to encounter some of the most important works in the collection.
The opening of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times will be accompanied by a series of public activities, including commented visits to the exhibition, workshops, and performances by Rivane Neuenschander, Patricia Domínguez, on October 19, 2022 and Allora & Calzadilla, and Tarek Atoui on October 22, 2022.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
12 pm – Rivane Neuenschwander, Espécie bandeira (Flagship species). An artist-led public workshop project revolving around the intersections of the rights of nature movement, extractivism, and nation building leading towards the design of a series of flags and banners. Presentation by the workshop participants.
1 pm – Allora & Calzadilla, mains hum, performance. Conceived in collaboration with the conductor Donald Nally and the composer David Lang and performed by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba, mains hum is a series of vocal actions that explores the mains hum—the continuous, low humming that buzzes from old or improperly grounded electrical transformers.
4 – 7 pm – Patricia Domínguez, Vegetal Matrix. Ethnobotanical drawing workshop exploring the multidimensional representation of plants. The workshop proposes a series of critical readings and exercises to deconstruct botanical scientific language and its Western lineage, reconsidering the depiction of plants from an artistic, indigenous, and spiritual point of view.
1 pm – Allora & Calzadilla, mains hum, performance. Conceived in collaboration with the conductor Donald Nally and the composer David Lang and performed by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba, mains hum is a series of vocal actions that explores the mains hum—the continuous, low humming that buzzes from old or improperly grounded electrical transformers.
4 – 7 pm – Patricia Domínguez, Vegetal Matrix. Ethnobotanical drawing workshop exploring the multidimensional representation of plants. The workshop proposes a series of critical readings and exercises to deconstruct botanical scientific language and its Western lineage, reconsidering the depiction of plants from an artistic, indigenous, and spiritual point of view.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
12 – 2 pm – Commented visit to the exhibition Abundant Futures in Troubled Times.
6 pm – Allora & Calzadilla, main hums, performance.
The performance is presented by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba.
8 pm – Tarek Atoui, Al Qabali, performance. Venue to be confirmed.
"Al Qabali" is a new research and performative project that Tarek Atoui started in 2015 and will premiere in Córdoba with a first solo performance. In "Al Qabali", Atoui layers and conjures sounds according to the Tarab–a trance-inducing Arab musical tradition–, based on a collection of musical recordings of rural traditions from tribes and villages across the Atlas to the Persian Gulf, following the road of the Tuareg people. On his intimate journey, Atoui combines recordings from souks and shops in Essaouira or Marrakech, from weddings in Bahrain, music salons, and diwan majlises in Kuwait, Sharjah, and Oman.
6 pm – Allora & Calzadilla, main hums, performance.
The performance is presented by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba.
8 pm – Tarek Atoui, Al Qabali, performance. Venue to be confirmed.
"Al Qabali" is a new research and performative project that Tarek Atoui started in 2015 and will premiere in Córdoba with a first solo performance. In "Al Qabali", Atoui layers and conjures sounds according to the Tarab–a trance-inducing Arab musical tradition–, based on a collection of musical recordings of rural traditions from tribes and villages across the Atlas to the Persian Gulf, following the road of the Tuareg people. On his intimate journey, Atoui combines recordings from souks and shops in Essaouira or Marrakech, from weddings in Bahrain, music salons, and diwan majlises in Kuwait, Sharjah, and Oman.
