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Sounding Sickness

What imaginaries do we seek as we walk through our city? Verdophilia? Perfect cube-shaped hedges? Pleasant birds? Extensively landscaped areas? A sense of wild pre-human splendor? How do crip and queer bodies intertwine in these designed natures?

The purpose of the Sounding Sickness workshop is to collectively generate a sound walk for the Usera neighborhood, and a somatic mapping of it, through listening, writing and orality practices. We will create a sound archive of conversations and performative methodes, as well as cartographic records based on an approach to the materials and agents with which we cohabit our cities from the vulnerability of our bodies.

Cripxcess is a collective that works between Madrid and Berlin, formed by Lorenzo Galgó and María Morata. They explore the crossover and dissolve the boundaries between crip theory and environmental studies through an artistic practice based on the cultivation of fragility as a tool of thought and the critique of ableism from our non-functional bodies. They question the categories of the healthy and the crip, the lush and the fertile, the dry and the barren, that are often articulated in mainstream ecological thought. Their research aims to develop a theory of crip ecology through an collective artistic practice that interweaves the theoretical, the sensory and the somatic as forms of knowledge production.

Friday 1 December 2023, 12-18h

Saturday 2 december 2023 12-18h

Sunday 3 December 2023 11-13h

Calle de la Pilarica, 81, 28026 Madrid

Find more information about the workshop here!

COM FUSÃO SONORA

We are incredibly privileged to welcome Panamby and Wirawasu to our space in Madrid, two sound artists and researchers who have been sonically exploring their territories and histories in Brazil. They were part of the line-up of The Listening Affect, a festival for sound ecologies and sonic entanglements that took place last weekend in Porto in collaboration with Galeria Municipal do Porto. They will be performing an improvisational collective concert.

Join us in critically sounding and listening with:

Panamby is an artist, unteacher and mãe/mamão and is dedicated to research and creation based on psychophysical limits linked to body modification practices in ritual experiences, apparitions, figures and visages. Panamby continues suturing in life after the “post” and treading healing paths across territories and started generating sounds as a poetic practice in/of the dark, especially since 2015, as an attempt to touch the invisible and communicate in other languages/language-gens. About one of Panamby’s latest works: “A sonic apparition in which I establish a dialogue with the processes of mass care and mourning. From big Kalunga, the endless abyss of the sea where black bodies were enchanted during human trafficking, in escapes and exiles, to the abyss of the sky in deep black populated by bodies and movements that forms us up from a diffuse ancestry, in agreement with the mystery.”

Wirawasu is a multi-artist from São Gabriel da Cachoeira and has participated in the Lab Sonora residency in 2022 and as a result of the experience performed in 2023 at the "Sonido: Instrumental and Experimental Music" festival in Belém - PA. Wirawasu explores sound collision based on sound fragments from an enchanted territory rich in acoustic biodiversity. These are works conceived from experiences in the Upper Rio Negro, exploring amateur recordings and the insertion of electronic elements, creating atmospheres of collisions and also ethereal ambiences, with improvisation as the guiding thread.

18.11.2023

19.30h

Calle de la Pilarica, 81, 28026 Madrid

PIP 2024 Postnatural Independent Program

The second edition of the Postnatural Independent Program (PIP) will explore the new implications of postnature as a framework for contemporary creation. In the form of an experimental educational platform, we will speculate and question not only contemporary ecologies but also new academic approaches and radical notions of learning together.

Delving into some of the most urgent issues linked to the current ecological crisis and the necessary redefinition of human activity on the planet. It aims to provide tools for the creation of artistic proposals that have real consequences for the world.

This multidisciplinary program is aimed at professionals with varied training and experience in the fields of visual arts, philosophy, performance, film, design, journalism, digital media, social studies, and political science, among others.

The incredible faculty is made up of some of the most renowned contemporary thinkers, artists, curators, and designers who work on a planetary scale, rethinking the agencies of art around today's challenges:

Karen Barad | Emanuele Coccia | Ayesha Hameed | Laura Tripaldi | Brigitte Baptiste | Jussi Parikka | Institute for Queer Ecology | Bayo Akomolafe | Filipa Ramos | Gesyada Siregar | Stacy Alaimo

6 month research cycle

3 theoretical modules

2 in-person meetings in Madrid

From January to June 2024

Find out more about PIP 2024 here!

Previous Programs

The Listening Affect

How are the sounds of the planet, of all its creatures and territories, changing within the climate crisis? How do animals perceive the noise of human activities, and of our spoken languages? How does a plant sound when it moves, stretching its leaves to find light or moving its roots towards the water? How do we hear solar flares? Or electromagnetic waves? How does the sound of the tectonic plates affect our mood and daily routines? Can you think of sounds that have gone extinct?

These and many other questions have been explored and embodied at The Listening Affect, an arts and science festival curated by the Institute for Postnatural Studies that took place from November 10th through the 12th and resonated from different locations around the city of Porto. Listening as an ecological practice unfolds new forms of attention that intrinsically require empathy, slowing down and mutual respect. Understood as an expanded way of being in the world that goes beyond hearing in a physical sense, it has been explored as a catalyst for collective and individual healing, allowing us to access new modes of inhabiting territories and of dealing with the current ecological crisis, prioritizing intra- and inter-species kinships.

We are honored to have listened with: Laraaji | Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg | KMRU | Filipa Ramos | Ute Wassermann | Laia Estruch | Infrasonica | Panamby | Wirawasu | Lovers & Lollypops | Rezmorah | Lechuga Zafiro | Debit | Interspecifics | Marta Zapparolli | Andrea Zarza Canovas | Tartaruga Agua | Gustavo Costa

Find out about the full program here!

Online Seminar at Jameel Arts Centre - Postnatural Ecologies

Interactive seminar led by the Institute for Postnatural Studies proposing an introduction to the concept of ‘postnature’; a theoretical framework for understanding and engaging with contemporary ecologies and discourse. The seminar’s two sessions focus overall on postnature as a framework enabling contemporary creation: delving into the genealogies of the postnatural, looking at how modes of thinking across time have shaped the human relationship to the ‘natural world’, but also exploring Acoustic Ecologies for building sensitivity towards “otherness”.

Jameel Arts Centre is an independent institution dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art to the public and engaging communities through learning, research and commissions. Founded and supported by Art Jameel, the Centre is located in Jaddaf Waterfront, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Find out more about the seminar here!

MÁS ACÁ. Experiencias Fílmicas para Regresar a Tierra

Más acá. Experiencias Fílmicas para Regresar a Tierra is an audiovisual program made up of four projections framed, each of them, by an introductory activity where we expanded, through the artistic practice of local agents, themes in relation to the climate crisis and the problems of its representation.

With a program of talks, workshops and collective exercises, we worked in a space for exchange where we rethought the current ecological moment together. Each day ended with a debate between guest artists, the public and curators of the cycle.

A collaboration between María Ptqk (audiovisual curator) and the Institute for Postnatural Studies (curator and coordination of activities) for CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo.

Find out more about MÁS ACÁ here!

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