Spring summer 2024
programme at fluent
Calle Luis Hoyos Sainz 2, (int)
39001, Santander,
Spain.
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”To take care of the space is to resist choosing those who know more than others –between those who are already included and those who want to belong– to build respect for the space, not because it is yours but because it is everyone’s. And this could create the momentum that would enable skills and interests to emerge, and pleasure and joy to appear(1)”.
fluent is pleased to announce the spring summer 2024 programme.
Bringing together practices that engage in maintenance as a form of infrastructural love and desire, fluent’s current and upcoming programme navigates the exhibition and education spaces as sites of ‘self-insufficiency’, in which ‘unity’ denotes a fragile, historically-constructed fantasy.
While the economy of maintenance is enclosed in a logic of financial and personal debt and exchange, the specter of artistic and intellectual positions unfolding throughout the coming months, look at the poetic and political traces of maintenance as possibilities to keep ourselves close to the world’s surfaces and systems. Thinking through logistical, spatial, structural, and relational logics, the programme imagines maintenance as a compassive pattern eluding the inhumanity that capital, states and institutions increasingly naturalize.
Victor Ruiz Colomer: interview
Exhibition continues until June, 8th.
Conversation with Victor Ruiz Colomer: Saturday, June 8th. [removed] [removed]
Join us for a conversation between artist Victor Ruiz Colomer and fluent’s director Alejandro Alonso Dí[removed];Together they will discuss Ruiz Colomer’s new commission, interview, which reorganises the openings and access points of the space, opaque and visible fissures, reassembling containment, desire and movement into a more plastic reality.
Poetics & politics of maintenance: Show me you are not the light I called to, but the darkness behind it.
With: Jack O’Brien, Estéfana Román Matesanz and Will Sheridan Jr
Exhibition opening: Friday, June 28th
June 28th, 2024 –– September 13th, 2024
The undertitle of this exhibition takes its name from a verse in Rose, a poem by Louise Glück in which belonging and identity struggle at light, while longing for a darker, freer regime. Maintenance has often been seen as this darker, back–staged dimension where the conditions for life to take place, are proccured. This exhibition dismantles such distinction, one that cuts across light and darkness, and focus on maintenance as a site that calls calling for time, dedication, closeness and attention, in which organic and inorganic bodies establish an intimate reciprocity.
All the works in Poetics & politics of maintenance emerge from this field of structural sensuality: tightness, overlaps, cuts and frictions do not operate as inert services —as in the social language of usership and consumerism—, but as a complex set of affinities: this of moving and being moved.
Poetics & politics of maintenance is dedicated to the memory of radical theorist Marina Vishmidt (1976–2024).
PRAXIS II:
Call for submissions.
Applications open from May 20th to July 10th.
PRAXIS is fluent’s educational apparatus, a structure for independent studies to take place from September 18th through December 22nd, 2024.
The second edition of the program will follow the same in–person format, running during 14 weeks (180 contact hours) and aiming to instigate a theoretical and practice–based learning process that dives into the systems that constitute our material and immaterial lifes. The programme is structured in four dimensions –or learning modules– directed by:
I MODULE: VITAL DIMENSION, Michael Marder
II MODULE: THE DIMENSION OF LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY, Anne Boyer
III MODULE: STRUCTURAL DIMENSION, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
IV MODULE: CORPOREAL & MOVING DIMENSION, Andrea [removed];
and will feature a faculty of guest professors including CAConrad, Joy James, Manuel Segade, Yayo Herrero, PRAXIS I, The State of Reza Abdoh, Hypatia Vourloumis, Alejandro Alonso Díaz, Learning Palestine, Quinn Latimer, Isabel de Naverán and many [removed];
Concomitentes: Aguas vivas, lenguas de agua by Laia Estruch
Commission opening: Saturday, July 13th
Aguas vivas, lenguas de agua channels the desire from different generations in the small village of Llanos in Cantabria, Spain, to recover the three water fountains and creating a common resource of memories and social life in them.
The opening of this commission culminates more than two years and a half of assemblies, debates and experimentation around the meaning, oral traditions and potential futures these three fountains contain for the community. The exchanges between the neighbors of Llanos and artist Laia Estruch brings together voice and water through a series of tongue–fountains. These tongues are both bodies of water, instruments and hinges that connect the act of listening with the territory. Taking Laia’s research on popular songs around water and its mythologies as a starting point, the three fountains configure a sonic landscape whose morphology is molded collectivelly.
(1) Georgia Sagri, Stage of Recovery. Divided Publishing. Brussels, [removed];
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