Photo: Daniel Ruiz
Activity
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Study of Presence with Nerea Calvillo
High Latencies
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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.
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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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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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this activity is part of
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.
exhibition
From October 24, 2024 to April 21, 2025
From October 24, 2024 to April 21, 2025
Epilogue
