Upcoming at fluent

Calle Luis Hoyos Sainz 2, (int) 
39001, Santander,
Spain.

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In the rise of Spring, fluent examines notions of maintenance within the fragility, extraction, precarity, and uncertainty that our socio–economic landscapes contain. Through an organic channeling of our activities, the current and upcoming program is devoted to an examination of the fundamental conditions in the maintenance of life and how to shape it through rehearsing pedagogies, choreographing bodies in space and the distribution of aesthetic and ideological forms.

Elaborating from Margaux Schwarz’s performance that expanded and slowed the audience’s gaze on their immediate environment, Instrucciones is currently on view and is extended until May [removed];
On the same day, Friday 5th of May, we will host a conversation with anthropologist, engineer, professor and ecofeminist activist Yayo Herrero, addressing the decline of material resources and the need for a structural transformation where the caring for life is at the center of the civilizatory system.

The program further unfolds with a solo exhibition by Iris Touliatou opening on May 18th and on view throughout July 7th which leads to an archival exhibition exploring the entangled relations in the fields of art, education and policy making in local and foreign contexts which will open on July 14th.
Thus, building from Proteínas, our current educational apparatus, the program ties in with various pedagogical structures in the lead-up to a study program that insists on the incompleteness of art’s place within –and beyond– our societal conditions and the possibility of reimagining their ecological, social and political [removed];

Last days:
Margaux Schwarz, Instrucciones.
Exhibition extended until May 5th, 2023.

In her performance and installation, Margaux Schwarz addresses a series of interactions with different people who are not presented to us, akin to a kind of training, which is in turns condescending, mothering or authoritarian. These instructions are all given in the name of an unspecified «We».

Can the repetition of language, intensity and tone reveal invisibilized contracts between subjects, economies and social roles? Through this question, Schwarz interrogates whether it is possible to activate new interactions between a collective form of intimacy and social power–dynamics.

Toma de Tierra:
Yayo Herrero at fluent books.
May, 5th. 8 [removed]

Anthropologist, engineer, professor and ecofeminist activist Yayo Herrero will be at fluent books presenting her last book, Toma de Tierra, published by Caniche.
Herrero’s work addresses the decline of material resources and the need for a structural transformation where the caring for life is at the center of the civilizatory system, thus overcoming the deep conditions of capitalist inequality, extraction, violence and oppression. Toma de Tierra brings together a selection of Yayo Herrero’s texts, interviews and conferences in which the frank word, her own but shared voice, unfolds in an effort to put life at the center.

Yayo Herrero is a renowned ecofeminist activist. She has been state coordinator of Ecologistas en Acción and director of the FUHEM Foundation; She is currently part of the Garúa Cooperative and Foro de Transiciones. She participates in numerous social and ecological initiatives for the protection of human and natural rights and regularly collaborates in different media.

Iris Touliatou.
Exhibition opening: May 18th
May 19th –– July 14th

For her forthcoming solo exhibition at fluent, Iris Touliatou presents a series of scores introducing and activating a number of emotional gestures and relations that stress the fragility of our contemporary condition. With a singular focus on each site of presentation, Touliatou rehearses a specific aspect of the intimate, precarious, and interdependent contingencies in our shared world. Her approach to this exhibition looks at a series of local infrastructures where collective intimacy can be experienced.