Hard Persistence
Hard Persistence presents a fictional essay of an autobiographical nature, related to crip and queer theories. The narrative is based on Hac Vinent’s experiences with auditory protheses, music and sound, as a hearing-impaired individual. The videos with subtitles refer to the complexity of hearing for a hyper-technologized deaf subject. Vinent reflects on the idea that when people receive a prothesis, they are no longer identified as biological organisms, becoming something that approximates them to the realm of science fiction: a cyber-organism or cyborg. In this way, she experiments with the concept of what is and is not human, and the political and material consequences of this conception. Vinent bases her work on the premise that, in an ableist context like our own, any body that is designated as disabled is not understood as a whole human body.
Exhibition
‘MACBA Collection: Prelude. Poetic Intention’. A group exhibition that aims to reverse the dramaturgy of the museum by putting the artwork at the centre so we can address its will, its energy and its poetic intention.
