Study of Presence with Nerea Calvillo 

Nerea Calvillo explores the material, technological, political and social dimensions of environmental pollution at the intersection between architecture, feminist technoscience studies, new materialisms and urban ecological politics.

Air is a common resource. But what does it mean to have the right to clean air? And the right to breathe? Instead of an invisible resource in short supply, we prefer to think of air as an infrastructure that makes different forms of life possible. Air produces pollution, reproduction, inequality, redistribution, biodiversity, extractivism… And, like any infrastructure, it is made up of technology, living and inert matter, bodies, institutions, politics, culture…

We will talk about monitoring, control, care and coexistence with the complexity of the atmospheres we inhabit, including that of the museum. What happens when we think-breathe together? Are there presences and corporealities that are excluded? We will imagine aerial infrastructures of/for the everyday.

this activity is part of

High Latencies

activity

17.10.2024 – 21.04.2025

High Latencies organises a series of conversations with members of the museum team, as well as public encounters with special guests. The discussion threads will interweave in a series of diagrams that will be published and updated erratically on the project website (altas-latencias.xyz) and on print-outs that will be displayed in the exhibition space. The diagrams do not offer a complete or definitive view of the conversations; instead, they encourage the creation of speculative associations and (slow, unfinished) understanding of the dense network of relationships and dependences produced by the complex phenomenon of presence. 

participant

Nerea Calvillo

Nerea Calvillo explores the material, technological, political and social dimensions of environmental pollution at the intersection between architecture, feminist technoscience studies, new materialisms and urban ecological politics. She is currently working on projects related to toxicity and politics, pollen and queer urban political ecology, and has recently published Aeropolis: Sensing Open Air, Pollution and Queer Political Ecologies (Columbia University Press, 2023).
Calvillo is a lecturer at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick and on the MA in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University, New York. She is the founder of C+ arquitectas and In the Air, a collaborative research project on environmental mediations. Her projects have been presented and exhibited in international centres such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile. She is co-editor of the special issue Toxic Politics (Social Studies of Science, 2018) and the book What Urban Media Art Can Do – Why When Where & How? (av editions, 2016).

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In 2021, MACBA launched the triennial Panorama, which aimed to “deepen its collaboration and dialogue with local artists and cultural agents”. [contra]panorama, the second edition of Panorama retains the same aim but works towards it through a year-long series of interventions that take the project’s title literally, in order to question both the continuing relevance of the triennial (or biennial) format and its capacity to offer a panoramic image of the present.

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High latencies #4 – Nerea Calvillo

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exhibition

From October 24, 2024 to April 21, 2025

Epilogue

[contra]panorama