Group Residencies

Ex-citadas: Saliéndonos al encuentro de prácticas para el desborde An investigation into what happens in the folded forms generated when we exceed the normal limits. We seek to immerse ourselves in the flow of the archive by thinking about other corporalities, bodies that are not contained, open and bulging, that go beyond themselves, liberating their silhouettes and overflowing onto other organisms and materialities, while, at the same time, exploring those excited artistic practices that search for ways of escaping disciplinary boundaries. Ours is a personal and particular reading of the archive through which, liberated from any specific corpus, we reach out toward artistic practices that are wet, porous, spongy, permeable, surpassing all categories, promoting the emergence of new ways of connecting and interrelating. A pleasant, intuitive process that arises from the enjoyment of inhabiting and conversing with the archive, and where caressing it and getting excited is the way to approach and explore it. We understand the archive as a planted field or fermented magma, latencies where one can be exposed to the outbreak, contagion, discovery and multiple forms of encounter with the other, while engaging with the people who inhabit the archive: those responsible for the care and permanence of these latencies, and those who are currently researching and discovering how exciting it can be to caress them.

Visual representations of disease and pain in contemporary art The three researchers behind the project ‘Visualising pain: visual narratives of disease and transmedia storytelling’ are conducting a study of the role played by various artists in the creation and critique of the collective imaginary elaborated through the mass media and their role in the creation of alternative visual narratives, based on the MACBA Archive and Library. Their research focuses on the processes of construction and deconstruction of the stigmatising iconography of certain diseases in contemporary visual arts and will carry out an exhaustive bibliographic review on the subject, as well as a review of the documentary and film material in the Archive. To begin with their case studies will analyse how artistic experimentation and creative research interact with the theoretical and conceptual framework of the fields of medical humanities and health communication in which the project is situated.

New fascism in Latin America and the contemporary world In the framework of this research, we will seek to create a meeting place for researchers, artists and activists, to share reflections about the recent growth of right-wing politics in Latin America and other parts of the world, using different tools and study methods in the field of artistic theory and practices. Based on specific cases, situated contexts will be reviewed to build a toolbox and a set of practices with which to address these politics. Approached from the urgency and difficulty in understanding these phenomena, this group will become a space for experimentation from the present.