Fall Season 2024
at fluent
Calle Luis Hoyos Sainz 2, (int)
39001, Santander,
Spain.
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”my language has cracked
is a slow, creaking fire
deadens my eyes, in
high, contorted concern
fuses to protein and rent (1)”.
fluent is pleased to announce the fall 2024 programme.
Devoted to a dramaturgy —as the aesthetic frame we provide ourselves to try, rehearse, fail and desire– of maintenance, this season continues considering the material and relational conditions that determine the appearance of love as a structural matter. Spanning the time and space of the exhibition format, experimental pedagogies and text–centered assemblies, the coming months posit practices that employ a grammar of dramaturgy at once hopeful, haptic, and politically eloquent.
PRAXIS II:
Announcing participants.
The programme begins on September 18th.
How can a transitory, moving community gathered in a small Atlantic city contribute a shift in the social landscape within and beyond its direct context?
Providing an inspiring source of exchange, energy and engaged debate, we are pleased to announce the participants in the second edition of PRAXIS. The group composition has been carefully drafted to structure a diverse tapestry of practitioners –ranging from artists, choreographers, poets, geographers, curators, editors, activists, writers 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: Katherine Agard (Trinidad & Tobago, 1990), Gabi Aparicio (Santander, 2000), Che Applewhaite (UK, 1998), Miren Barrena (Donostia, San Sebastián, 1996), Toni Böckle (Germany, 1997), María Cuesta (Santander, 1999), Diana de la Cruz (Santander, 1991), Hampus Hoh (Sweden), Mina Heydari–Waite (UK, 1994), jœëlla kálâlã (Democratic Republic of Congo), Jean–François Krebs, Florine Lindner (Germany, 1987), Camila Malenchini (Argentina, 1990), Dani Méndez (Santander, 1996), Gerardo Rocha (México, 1992), Jara Roset (Madrid, 1998), Victor Ruiz Colomer (Barcelona, 1993), Kaiya Waerea (Aotoerea/New Zealand, 1996), Calvin Walds (EEUU,1990) and Amber Wright (Anaiwan/Australia, 1987).
PRAXIS is an intensive study programme running from September to December, 2024, under the directorship of Anne Boyer, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Andrea Rodrigo and Michael Marder. 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];
Reza Abdoh: Quotations from a Ruined City
Exhibition opening: Thursday, October 3th
October 4th –– December 30th
Quotations from a Ruined City, the first presentation in Spain on the work of late Iranian theater director, Reza Abdoh (1963–1995) is a case–study exhibition taking his last produced play to reflect on the violent political realities of his (and our) time. Over a career that spanned twelve years, Abdoh developed an aesthetic grammar where mythology, music clips, fairy tales, BDSM, rave culture, religion and avant–garde theatre merged, to speak eloquently about human degradation, genocidal politics (from the AIDS crisis to supremacism and war), structural segregation, oppression, racism and the institutions’ refusal to diversity.
On the week of its premiere at the [removed] festival, Quotations from a Ruined City was described as ”a violent attack on violence. A sort of apocalyptic follies, evening of song, dance, poetry, nudity and torture set in a world” that is still dying today.
Just before his death, Abdoh gave instructions that his plays never be performed again, thus making his work only available through videos, photographs, texts and other kind of documentation materials. On the ocassion of this exhibition, fluent will launch a publication centered on the exhibition’s core and original play Quotations from a Ruined City.
We are grateful to Daniel Mufson, whose commitment to Reza’s work and constant efforts in promoting and pollinating it, are at the core of this [removed];
Un léxico molecular
Ongoing
In parallel to fluent’s exhibition programme, this autumn fluent books will host across multiple Wednesdays, Un léxico molecular, a reading group in which couple of texts, selected in collaboration with the exhibited artists, expand the exhibition programme. This pairing triggers echoes, frictions and connections, shaping a moment of encounter and discursive re-signification.
For more information, please check [removed]
(1)Letters agains the firmament, Sean Bonney. Enitharmon Editions, 2024.
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