Inhabit and (dis)appear

The viewing cycle Inhabit and (dis)appear is proposed within the framework of the activities of the ARES Archive. Aesthetics, identities, and audiovisual practices in Spain (www.aresvisuals.net). From the notion of inhabiting as a complex requirement that transcends the mere physical occupation of space, we face, in our most immediate present, profound dilemmas about how to take on commitment and the different positions that this requires. In a time when acceleration, transience, disappearance make us feel fragile in the face of the certainty of limits, the will to create, conceive, project, unavoidable for the human being, continues to want to say, to resist, to appear. The six proposed video art pieces face this challenge and make visible different encounters between the body and the environment, nature and artifice, aesthetics and politics, opening the doors to the sealed worlds of our contemporary life, guided by the courage to remind us that we still need to reclaim time and approach a place.

Coordinated by Rosa García and Anna Martínez-Collado.

1. Canción de la armonía y el mundo (2004) by Marta de Gonzalo and Publio Pérez Prieto.
2. To shave like a real man (2013) by Xeito Fole.
3. Bestiari (2017) by Albert Merino.
4. The Sasha (2019) by María Molina Peiró.
5. Future Foods (2021) by Gerard Ortín Castellví.
6. Dialelo. Debimos haberlo previsto (2022) by Andrés Garo.

November 30, 2023, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Room 106, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha.