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B. Ingrid Olson:

Pleasure Traffic

Opening: September 29th, 2023 
7.00 – 10.00 p.m

The exhibition continues throughout
November 24th.

fluent is pleased to present Pleasure Traffic, the first solo exhibition in Spain by Chicago–based artist B. Ingrid Olson. As an exhibition title, Pleasure Traffic 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 temporalities. 

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).

B. Ingrid Olson:

Pleasure Traffic

Opening: September 29th, 2023 
7.00 – 10.00 p.m

The exhibition continues throughout
November 24th.

fluent is pleased to present Pleasure Traffic, the first solo exhibition in Spain by Chicago–based artist B. Ingrid Olson. As an exhibition title, Pleasure Traffic 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 temporalities. 

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).

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OCTOBRE 2023

À vos agendas ! Pour notre prochaine exposition à KADIST Paris, nous sommes heureux de présenter Une Assemblée de poète·sse·s civiques, un projet inédit réalisé en collaboration avec la Sharjah Art Foundation.

Cette exposition fait suite à la coproduction du film Um Al Dhabaab (Mother of Fog) de Farah Al Qasimi dans le cadre de la 15e Biennale d’art de Sharjah Thinking Historically in the Present. Co-curatée par les directrices des deux organisations, elle célèbre les gestes poétiques qui défendent la justice sociale, la solidarité transnationale et les luttes pour les droits civiques.
 
Installations, films, dessins et sculptures mettent en lumière le pouvoir du langage comme instrument politique, tout en offrant des réflexions sur la manière de transmettre ces expériences sans les réduire.

L’espace de KADIST Paris s’articulera autour d’une salle d’écoute et de consultation, avec des œuvres de Radio Alhara & Learning Palestine Group, Hajer Ben Boubaker, Nidhal Chamekh, Helina Metaferia, Joe Namy, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Cecilia Vicuña, Hajra Waheed, et d’une salle de projection avec des films de Manthia Diawara, Bouchra Khalili, et David Wojnarowicz & Marion Scemama.

Bouchra Khalili, Twenty-Two Hours, 2018 (video still) (C) Bouchra Khalili. Courtesy of the artist & mor charpentier

NOS PROGRAMMES INTERNATIONAUX

El Warcha Design Studio
Je bois le désordre du monde, projections et programme public

du 20 au 24 septembre 2023

KADIST Paris
Une Assemblée de poète·sse·s civiques, exposition en collaboration avec la Sharjah Art Foundation

du 6 octobre 2023 au 4 février 2024

KADIST San Francisco
de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from the underwater mountains fire makes islands], commissariat de Yina Jiménez Suriel

du 13 octobre 2023 au 17 février 2024

OCTOBER 2023

Mark your calendars! For our next exhibition at KADIST Paris, we are delighted to present A Convening of Civic Poets, an original project in collaboration with Sharjah Art Foundation.

This exhibition follows the co-production of Farah Al Qasimi’s film Um Al Dhabaab (Mother of Fog) in the context of the 15 Sharjah Art Biennial Thinking Historically in the Present. Co-curated by both organizations’ directors, it celebrates poetical gestures that stand up for social justice, transnational solidarity, and civil right struggles.
 
Installations, films, drawings, and sounds highlight the power of language as a political tool, while offering reflections on how to convey these experiences without reducing them.

The space of KADIST Paris will be articulated through a listening and consultation room, with works by Radio Alhara & Learning Palestine Group, Hajer Ben Boubaker, Nidhal Chamekh, Helina Metaferia, Joe Namy, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Cecilia Vicuña, Hajra Waheed, and a screening room with films by Manthia Diawara, Bouchra Khalili, and David Wojnarowicz & Marion Scemama. 

Jinoos Taghizadeh, Letters I Never Wrote: The Political Murders, 2008

OUR PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD

El Warcha Design Studio
I Drink the World’s Tumult, video screenings and public program

from September 20 to 24, 2023 

KADIST Paris
A Convening of Civic Poets, exhibition in collaboration with Sharjah Art Foundation

from October 6, 2023 to February 4, 2024

KADIST San Francisco
de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from the underwater mountains fire makes islands], curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel

from October 13, 2023 to February 17, 2024

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

www.fluentfluent.org

”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.

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 togetherness. 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 processes. 

B. Ingrid Olson: Pleasure Traffic
Exhibition opening: Friday, September 29th
September 29th –– November 24th