Himali Singh Soin
Technologies of Love
December 14, 2022 –
January 18, 2023
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Design: Rose Nordin.
Past
Programming
MNTB Madrid
EN / ES
Drawing from the technologies of love that inspire the exhibition, the participating poets, scientists and thinkers will bring us closer to other views and perspectives on interdependence and affections.
Drawing from the technologies of love that inspire the exhibition, the participating poets, scientists and thinkers will bring us closer to other views and perspectives on interdependence and affections.
"FIRE BLANK"
Beatriz Ortega Botas and Leticia Ybarra
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 5:30 pm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Exhibition hall, level -1
Language: Spanish
This talk proposes a critical survey of the relationship between love, theatricality and fires through the work of various contemporary artists and poets. On the basis of Terence McNally’s play The Lisbon Traviata, which deals with the loneliness of two gay men obsessed with a very rare recording of a single performance by Maria Callas in Lisbon, we shall think of the vagaries of love as running parallel to the mechanisms of amplification and emptiness found in the theatre. Taking ardor and fire as universal symbols of love, we will focus on different fires that have affected theaters and forests. The processes of decomposition begun by fire, together with other forms of decay that occur in organic material, will ground our examination of the possibility of expression and reanimation in absence and devastation.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 5:30 pm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Exhibition hall, level -1
Language: Spanish
This talk proposes a critical survey of the relationship between love, theatricality and fires through the work of various contemporary artists and poets. On the basis of Terence McNally’s play The Lisbon Traviata, which deals with the loneliness of two gay men obsessed with a very rare recording of a single performance by Maria Callas in Lisbon, we shall think of the vagaries of love as running parallel to the mechanisms of amplification and emptiness found in the theatre. Taking ardor and fire as universal symbols of love, we will focus on different fires that have affected theaters and forests. The processes of decomposition begun by fire, together with other forms of decay that occur in organic material, will ground our examination of the possibility of expression and reanimation in absence and devastation.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
BIOXENO - NOTHING IS MORE QUEER THAN NATURE -
Ce Quimera and Gaia Leandra
Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 5:30 pm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Exhibition hall, level -1
Language: Spanish
Bioxeno is a research and performance project developed by Ce Quimera and Gaia Leandra. It draws from the desire to establish an interspecies entanglement with cyanobacteria communities as well as it acknowledges our human limitations and the dependence in technology to mediate these relationships. We ask ourselves: what artistic formats could show/translate this type of relationship without reproducing anthropocentric or colonial gazes? How can we account for the biodiversity and extractivism present in the ecosystems we inhabit? How do we think of the bio in so much life? What do we think about our lives? Or rather, how do we live? And by doing so, we are interested in questioning the bases on which technologies and tools, both scientific and artistic, are defined; contaminating them with trans*feminist ways of doing very much informed by a hacker ethic and a decolonial gaze. In other words, ways of doing that are committed to an open culture and science, to the generation of hybrid, situated and transversal narratives, taking into account the geopolitical context in which they develop. The research focuses on the cyanobacteria that inhabit the Ebro Delta in Catalonia and the Tigre Delta in Argentina.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
*This project was supported by the “Barcelona 2020 Awards” Grant from the Ayuntamiento of Barcelona and Hangar.org’s residence in the wetlab.
Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 5:30 pm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Exhibition hall, level -1
Language: Spanish
Bioxeno is a research and performance project developed by Ce Quimera and Gaia Leandra. It draws from the desire to establish an interspecies entanglement with cyanobacteria communities as well as it acknowledges our human limitations and the dependence in technology to mediate these relationships. We ask ourselves: what artistic formats could show/translate this type of relationship without reproducing anthropocentric or colonial gazes? How can we account for the biodiversity and extractivism present in the ecosystems we inhabit? How do we think of the bio in so much life? What do we think about our lives? Or rather, how do we live? And by doing so, we are interested in questioning the bases on which technologies and tools, both scientific and artistic, are defined; contaminating them with trans*feminist ways of doing very much informed by a hacker ethic and a decolonial gaze. In other words, ways of doing that are committed to an open culture and science, to the generation of hybrid, situated and transversal narratives, taking into account the geopolitical context in which they develop. The research focuses on the cyanobacteria that inhabit the Ebro Delta in Catalonia and the Tigre Delta in Argentina.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
*This project was supported by the “Barcelona 2020 Awards” Grant from the Ayuntamiento of Barcelona and Hangar.org’s residence in the wetlab.