Fall Season 2023
at fluent
Calle Luis Hoyos Sainz 2, (int)
39001, Santander,
Spain.
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”Constituent history has never submitted to the tyranny of the textual. The sonic moves audiences-cum-comrades, fleshy things that, in feeling and moving communally, call up the specter of the common project. This is the surplus of their corporeal, anti-transactional transactions. Of their uprising against even minor miseries(1)”.
fluent is pleased to announce the fall 2023 programme.
Our upcoming season explores how bodies register the dissonance between the violence of the world’s regimes and the pace of our vulnerability. The same corporeal and sonic perceptions pointing to such dissonance guide our upcoming fall programme which, inspired by forms of collective experimentation, solidarity and pedagogy, remind us that resisting oppressive systems require re–assembling the surrounding [removed];
Over four months, fluent will become a host of voices and shared space for the following exhibitions and experimental pedagogies, engaging in practices and ecologies of [removed];Willing to open processes of embodied learning, the programme entangles sound, body, infrastructures, objects and texts through multiple forms of interaction (exhibitionary, educational, written and performative) while invoking collective transformation and change against the logics of separation and disenchantment.
PRAXIS:
Announcing participants.
The programme begins on September 20th.
How can a transitory, moving community gathered in a small Atlantic city contribute a shift in the social landscape within and beyond the direct context?
Providing an inspiring source of exchange, energy and engaged debate, we are pleased to announce the participants in the inaugural edition of PRAXIS. The group composition has been carefully drafted to structure a diverse tapestry of practitioners –ranging from writers, ecological activists, artists, choreographers, health practitioners, poets and trans–disciplinary makers–. The programme responds to the diverse realities, temporalities and social landscapes cutting across our shared worlds and futures. Aiming to unfold a common sense of affection, care and co–responsibility, the programme is both inclusive and responsive to wide–ranging profiles, attentive to transgenerational, professional and live backgrounds resonating in unison and including: Eric Armengod (Santander, 1999), Lucía Bayón (Madrid, 1994), Aaa Biczysko (Warsaw, 1995), Augusto Cascales (Brazil, 1992), Susanne Ewerlöf (Stockholm, 1981), Mireia Ferri (Valencia, 1992), Thomas P. Grogan (Nottingham, 1991), John Mark Hill (Santander, 1999), Mary Hurrell (Gqeberha, South Africa, 1982), Andrés Izquierdo (Madrid, 1993), Can Lejárraga (Santander, 1998), Kate Morgan (London, 1994), Lena Neuburger (Linz, Austria, 1999), Tom Nobrega (São Paulo, 1984), Rhiya Pau (London, 1993), Sunny Pfalzer (Vienna,1991), Judha Su (Bangkok), Marta Valledor (Santander, 1995), Whilelmina Welsch (Dobritsch, Bulgaria, 1983) and Cy X (Atlanta, EEUU, 1995).
PRAXIS is an intensive study programme running from September to December, 2023. Reacting to current conditions of great narrative anxiety where detachment and hyper–mediation have replaced narrative structures; emotion and affectivity are at the forefront of this new phase of neoliberalism. Considering these challenges and the subsequent role of the arts and the humanities, PRAXIS aims to develop socially transformative prospects that repair the social realm from reduced listening and re–articulate aesthetics, and making [removed];
B. Ingrid Olson: Pleasure Traffic
Exhibition opening: Friday, September 29th
September 29th –– November 24th
Pleasure Traffic, the title of B. Ingrid Olson’s first exhibition in Spain suggests friction: a specific, directional pattern confronts the contingencies of experience while proposing dissident orientations. In spatial terms this translates to an architectural intervention (both sculptural and photographic) which reorganizes the existing accessibility to the space. Olson triggers a sense of availability (as in lack thereof) by conditioning a spatial experience that cannot be fully perceived or registered in its totality. Making analogies to wider structural configurations —material, social, ideological, physiological, psychological, or spiritual— the exhibition presents gestures and images that confront how we, as subjects, might encounter, dissolve into, or be prohibited within, a continuum of spaces, perspectives and [removed];
B. Ingrid Olson lives and works in Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include Cast of Mind at i8 Grandi, Reykjavík; History Mother and Little Sister, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Elastic X at Secession, Vienna. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, (2021); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (2021) and The Museum of Modern Art, MoMa, New York (2018).
Lamin Fofana: Notes on planetary living
Exhibition opening: Thursday, November 30th
November 30th, 2023 –– February 9th, 2024
Notes on planetary living is the first exhibition in Spain by Sierra Leone–born, New York–based musician and artist Lamin Fofana. The project revolves around a series of exchanges of the text Twelve Theses on the Economy the Dead (John Berger) which is a continuation in an ongoing body of work (against origins & destinations, working title). Through the use of sound, scents and live performance Notes on planetary living continues to engage with the expansive vibrations of life and death sharing a mutual sonic space, as well as the poetic dimension that often distresses a sense of interaction between the [removed];
Lamin Fofana is an artist and musician. His music contrasts the reality of our world with what is beyond it, and explores questions of movement, migration, alienation and belonging. Fofana’s overlapping interests in history and the present, and his practice of transmuting text into the affective medium of sound, manifests in multisensory live performances and installations featuring original music compositions, field recordings and archival material. His latest releases include Black Metamorphosis, Darkwater, and Blues (an album trilogy). Recent exhibitions include Dark Waters at Tate Liverpool, (2023) Ballad Air & Fire for Preis der Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2021); a call to disorder at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2021); Life and Death by Water for the Liverpool Biennial 2021; WITNESS at 57th Venice Biennale (2017); and performances at Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany and Athens, Greece (2017). In 2021, Fofana was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants and was nominated for the National Gallery Prize in Germany. Fofana hosts a monthly radio show on NTS Radio, an online station based in London.
(1) Dis/Continuum, Lamin Fofana and e–flux editors. Issue #79
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