Eu era ar, espaço vazio, tempo. FabianaVinagre
Activity
Friday 12 and Saturday 13 April, 2024
CRYPSIS
Ecology of sound by Fabiana Vinagre, Belén Rodríguez, André Felipe, Julián Galay, Vica Pacheco and the Institute for Postnatural Studies
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: A Leaf Shapes the Eye
Some nocturnal butterflies emit ultrasonic sounds that confound bats’ hearing when they try to detect them through the echo of their screeches. Crypsis, the act of disappearing or going unseen in the world, can also be sonorous.
Based on the ideas central to Daniel Steegmann Mangrané‘s work, the Institute for Postnatural Studies proposes a series of experimental activations (performances, listening sessions, research and music) that amplify the perceptive layers of the exhibition through sound. Over two days, based on animal strategies of camouflage and echolocation, Crypsis will allow visitors to navigate the museum through sounds, reverberations and echoes that generate a new relationship between the works, the bodies and the surrounding environment.
The artists invited to this programme – Fabiana Vinagre, Belén Rodríguez, Vica Pacheco and Julián Galay – expand the perceptive and conceptual layers of the exhibition Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. A Leaf Shapes the Eye, delving into the framework of sound ecology proposed by the Institute for Postnatural Studies.
The exhibition will be activated by the bodies of Fabiana Vinagre and André Felipe, giving life to two textile works by Belén Rodríguez that were conceived in the Cantabrian forest where the artist lives. In Eu era ar, espaço vazio, tempo, these feathered beings, camouflaged in “forest colour”, will inhabit the space from performativity, exploring alternative ways of becoming with our environment and the resources surrounding us.
In the Capella, Julián Galay will invite us to enter a dreamscape through the sounds of birds and spiders. Mimesis, a performative lecture accompanied by an active listening session, will explore these sonic dimensions as other sites of interspecies communication. Through an experimental concert, Galay will use the tuning fork as a scientific tool to sensitise us to the architectonic vibrations of the site, as well as its relationship to our subconscious.
On Saturday, Vica Pacheco will close the cycle with Animacy, an absorbing piece in which the Oaxacan artist will use her ‘whistling vessels’ to transport us to a space of sonorities and connections between the body and territory. Her work, from the syncretism of ancient Mexica musical practices and mythological rituals and meanings, opens up a sonorous universe around breathing, the organic and energy.
This cycle of activities will begin with an inaugural performative talk given by the Institute for Postnatural Studies on Friday the 12th at 19:00.
Programme curated by the Institute for Postnatural Studies.
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exhibition
From November 16, 2023 to May 20, 2024
From November 16, 2023 to May 20, 2024
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: A Leaf Shapes the Eye
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