Objetologías : A Sunday afternoon with Jara Rocha
Sunday February 8 @ 16:00

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Get involved with Etherpad at http://etherpad.orghat is the attraction of an algorithm? Do servers have a gender? Can a book be a disobedient object? Is it possible to understand an infrastructure as a poetics? Jara Rocha presents Objetologías, a line of research she carries with Josianito Llorente, Jaron Rowan and Carla Boserman. Working on the aesthetics and politics of objects and technologies in their different material conditions, they speculate about the potentials and relatedness of humans and non-humans. Their attempt at a post-humanist approach brings together studies of culture, science and technology, actor-network theory, new materialism s , speculative realism, futurology and affect s theory. Objetologías considers the ethic, erotic, aesthetic and political agency of objects, and studies their material conditions in a broad sense: scale, durabilit y , weight, volume, attraction, dispersion. Instead of studying the social use of objects and technologies, they shift their attention to ontologies, understanding processes of individuation, co-production and articulation as basic gestures that act symmetr ically in the complex web of materiality.

Jara Rocha is a cultural mediato r , developing educational programmes at Bau School of Design in Barcelona. She works with materialities of infrastructure, queering practices and links both formal and non-formal ways of researching interface cultures. With Seda Guerses, Miryam Aouragh and Femke Snelting she participates in The Darmstadt Delegation.

Tea and cake served!

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Disobedient objects
speculate for a while on the performativity of the world when the human (modern) subject is not in the center of its making. In the sphere of new materialisms we can perhaps find better understandings of the (re)configurations of our social, economical, political and aesthetical ecologies by, for example, displacing the agents that interact within them. What would it mean to practice Object-Oriented-Design? 





¿Qué es Objetologías?

Objetologías es una línea de investigación en  torno a las condiciones estéticas y políticas de los objetos y las  tecnologías en sus distintas materialidades. Especulando desde la  ficción y la teoría sobre las potencialidades y relacionalidad de  humanos y no-humanos, tratamos de abordar algunas tensiones de nuestros  presentes culturales.

En el marco referencial confluyen diferentes disciplinas y  áreas de pensamiento. Con una mirada tentativamente posthumanista,  tendrán cabida los estudios de cultura, ciencia y tecnología, la teoría  del actor-red, los nuevos materialismos, el realismo especulativo, la  futurología y la teoría afectiva para citar a algunos de los más  notables. 

De esta manera se propone estudiar desde el diseño las  condiciones materiales de los objetos en un sentido amplio: escalas,  durabilidades, pesos, volúmenes, atracciones, dispersiones, etc.  Escapando del estudio de los usos sociales de objetos y tecnologías,  pretendemos relacionarnos con sus ontologías, entendiendo los procesos  de individuación, de co-producción y articulación como gestos  fundamentales para comprender el complejo tejido de la materialidad.

Desde este grupo querríamos trabajar en torno a una serie de  preguntas.¿Podemos todavía afirmar que tecnología es la sociedad hecha  para que dure?¿Qué temporalidades genera?¿Cómo entender los ciclos y  tiempos que se producen en la conjugación humanos/no-humanos? Algoritmos  predictivos adelantan el futuro, bases de datos ingentes gestionan el  imaginario colectivo de millones de personas. El primer gramófono se  diseñó para preservar las últimas palabras de las personas moribundas.  De entonces la capacidad de preservar/almacenar palabras de dispositivos  electrónicos no ha dejado de crecer. ¿Memoria o realidad paralela? 

Metodológicamente se propone como un seminario de investigación en el que el ritmo vendrá marcado por sesiones semanales de close-reading  y estudios específicos de tecnologías concretas. Al estar inscrito en  una red de agentes investigadores con los que se comparten numerosas  preguntas, Objetologías tratará de abrirse a  partir de una práctica de documentación atenta, encuentros de estudio y  discusión con personas invitadas, y quizás en forma de talleres  intensivos puntuales. Todo atendiendo, además, a las preguntas que  puedan ir surgiendo dentro de la comunidad investigadora y de  aprendizaje que se da encuentro en Bau. 


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“Panic”, 2014, 3D stereoscopic video projection, sound, 90 minutes, is an
evocation of the god Pan, shot on Mount Sodom, Israel, in August 2014, the
intensity of the conflictual situation in Gaza (panikon deima) to be
reflected in this film.

In the middle of the deserted salt mountains overlooking the Dead Sea, two
bearded naked men reenact “Pan copulating with a Goat”, the infamous
polished marble sculpture found in the Villa of Papyri, in Herculaneum.

Despite their passionate struggle, the expressionless faces of the actors
and choreographed coition rythmed by statuesque pauses reveal the
reenactment and re-appropriation of mythology by the artist – a critical
stance toward a pervasive political and theological practice.  Pan is here
summoned as a dual symbol of lasciviousness and war-strategic function to
induce uncontrollable fear – panic.

The synchronized soundtrack is a deceleration of Daphnis et Chloe, Pan’s
evocation by Maurice Ravel for the Ballets Russes. The celebrated movement
“Le lever du Jour” is digitally stretched from 6 to 90 minutes,
transforming the impressionistic piece into an alarming, trance-inducing
orchestral score.  The dramatic lighting of the sun rising is not without
reference to “The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorra” by Romantic English
painter John Martin.

In an age of oppression, more particularly in theocracy, or neo-liberal
commercialization through pornography, this film dignifies a timeless form
of human bonding, an emotional attempt to represent the indicible nature of
physical communication.

Louis–Philippe Scoufaras is a multi/media artist, born 1981 in Montreal,
currently resident at the Akademie Schloss Solitude.

The gallery is open from Wednesday to Saturday, from 2 to 6 pm during the
length of the exhibition.
*Louis-Philippe Scoufaras*
“Panic”, 2014

3D stereoscopic video projection, sound, 90 minutes

Pan - Arthur Gillet
Goat - Jay Barry Matthews
Assistant - Michèle Gauthier
Post-production - Sebastian Bodirsky
Sound engineer - Thibaut Carpentier


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