fluent is pleased to announce Journey to the One, a sound essay by curator and writer Sofia Lemos where she shares preliminary notes for a new curriculum based on the practice and poetics of the Imagination. Following Gayatry Spivak’s provocation to reimagine our planet with critical and transformative prospects, it proposes a poetics of wayfinding and sense-making based on subtle bodies of knowledge drawn from western and eastern scholarly, spiritual and sensorial traditions. Herein configured as a critical-creative contemplation and utopian mode of critique, this sound essay reflects on how practising creative imagination reorients hope and reimagines possibility.
The musical interludes for this critical-creative contemplation were composed by Andrew Pecker for the 2019 album Sounds From Phantom Islands inspired by islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. The status of these artefacts of European colonial expansion from the 15th to the 19th century oscillates between cartographic fact and maritime [removed];Sounds From Phantom Islands interprets and presents these imaginations as a quasi-ethnographic catalog of music and synthetic field [removed];
Sofia Lemos is a curator and writer. She is Curator at TBA21-Academy where she is developing a new curriculum that brings together arts, social and environmental justice. From 2018-2021, she was Curator of Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary, where she led the partnership between the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University, and was Associate Editor at The Contemporary Journal. In Nottingham, she initiated numerous collaborative research programmes, including the multi-platform commissioning series Sonic Continuum (2019-2022) and the critical poetics programme Five Bodies (2020-ongoing). Recently, Lemos was Associate Curator Public Programmes to the 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art – RIBOCA (2020). Previously, she was involved in the research and production of exhibitions at HKW, Berlin, PRAXES, Berlin, DRAF, London, and MACBA, Barcelona. Her writings on contemporary art and culture have featured in publications such as Art Agenda, Document Journal, Spike, Frieze and MOUSSE as well as in several catalogues and monographs. She is editor of Sonic Continuum: On the Sound and Poetics of Time (forthcoming with Archive Books, 2022), and recently co-edited the reader METABOLIC RIFTS (Atlas Projectos, 2019), and a monograph Musa paradisiaca: Views on Misunderstanding (Bom Dia Books, 2018).
Credits:
Text and Voice: Sofia Lemos
Music: Andrew Pekler, Sounds From Phantom Islands (2019)
Poetry: Himali Singh Soin, Ancestors of the Blue Moon (2021)
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Proteínas is a pilot educational project aimed at engaging with local young communities. Extending on our exhibition and book spaces, it examines the notion of learning and the energy interactions that educational infrastructures propitiate, through a series of workshops, presentations and readings. Focused on the complex spiritual–intellectual–physical–productive continuum that connects self, community and planet, it poses a vision on education which could not be more real nor more intrinsic to all physical, cultural and bio–social [removed];
Titled under the notion of protein—(n.), /ˈprəʊtiːn/ the term was coined in 1838 by Dutch chemist Gerhard Johan Mulder—a substance capable of performing a vast array of functions within organisms, including catalyzation, metabolization, replication, stimuli response, transportation and structural configuration, proteins are the primary substance in transforming nutrients into energy. Taking this embodied/poetic image as point of departure, Proteínas speculates on the multiple strategies through which learning can become energy by incorporating exterior elements into our own bodies, informing molecular, subjective and collective landscapes.
Thus, much of the programme’s intent is to expand rational, objectifying and logically–driven forms of knowledge into an expanded bodily and poetic thinking. Through this, it focuses on the ways resilience can grow and how communities can become more porous to peripheral, non–academic and marginal forms of knowing. As we imagine institutions, economies and inherited social structures melting into a new worldview, we need our curricula to respond to the movements and needs of our bodies, minds, habitats and [removed];
Through a series of physical gatherings and online presentations Proteínas unfolds in a series of intimate methodologies structured in three sessions and an ongoing transversal workshop. The program also includes contributions by Camila Marambio, TANJ (The Against Nature Journal), Victor Ruiz Colomer and Joe Highton.
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