Filipa Ramos, Lorenzo Sandoval, Matadero Madrid
Talks
2023
Matadero Madrid
The loss of human centrality, the consequences of anthropic action, environmental aesthetics and otherness or the reproductions and displacements of natural phenomena, have reconfigured throughout the last century the way in which thought compromises or problematizes the natural, sparking a discussion that blurs the boundaries between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Organisms that grow roots as they go; such is the meaning of ‘radicante’, a new tool for collective thinking and action. Through affect, situated practice, and a new critical aesthetic consciousness via curatorial practice, we will seek to provide tools for the creation of artistic proposals that have real-world consequences.
Delving into some of the most urgent issues related to the current ecological crisis and the necessary redefinition of human activity on the planet and its relationship with other beings, these meeting will focus on curatorial practices that assert a nomadic, transformative, and rooting positioning in the face of contemporary urgencies.
Encounters and narrative machines Lorenzo Sandoval with Clara Benito and Gabriel Alonso July 14th, 2023 from 19 to 21 h.
2023 PIP Projects presentation July 14th, 2023 from 12 to 18 h.
The practice developed by Lorenzo Sandoval is related to the idea of encounter: the entities that are arranged generate a series of relationships; sometimes, they occur between pieces, between various inscription formats, or between different narrative forms. Other times, these encounters take place between people. Most often, it is a combination of both (pieces and people) through devices that generate machine narratives. In this event, projects related to the Nómadas y radicantes symposium and the Institute for Postnatural Studies will be presented, concluding with a conversation with Lorenzo Sandoval, where he introduces two projects: “Shadow Writing” (about divergent genealogies of the relationships between computing, photography and textiles) and “Garganta/Brazo/Surco” (about extractive practices of mining, construction and agribusiness in the Campo de Cartagena and Mar Menor).
Affection and coexistence Filipa Ramos with Gabriel Alonso and Yuri Tuma April 29th, 2023 at 12:00
“The relationship with the natural world not as a source to learn from… as the knowledge extracted from it. I think that there is a difference between learning from the outside and truly feeling from within, having an experience that allows us to understand things in a different way, a sort of embodied epistemology. Art has the ability to do this.”
Filipa Ramos
Through the perspective of Filipa Ramos, an independent curator (VIII Biennale Gherdëina, “Bodies of Water”, XIII Shanghai Biennale, Vdrome, among others), we will discuss different ways of speaking about and with other animals, questioning the idea of empathy and how it needs to be reconsidered for new modes of connection and transforming. We will also debate the role that legality is playing in the anthropomorphization of landscapes, territories and animals and how these bureaucratic entanglements obscure the complexities of life and the distinct and unique landscapes.