Todo comienzo es un ensayo
Todo comienzo es un ensayo
Todo comienzo es un ensayo, Session 3 was conceived as a collective study platform unfolding through reading, translation, annotation, and spoken exchange. Held at Infinito Delicias in Madrid, the session approached study as a shared technology for moving across temporalities and affects.
Working through fragments by María Lugones, Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, Rasheeda Phillips, Bedour Alagraa, Phoenix Atala, Ashkan Sepahvand, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Diana Taylor, the group treated texts as materials to be traversed and recomposed. Several concepts were set into motion: world-travelling, queer time, diasporic affect, embodied archive, gesture, fugitivity, collective relation.
The session drew as much from arpentage as from sampling culture. Reading became a practice of cutting, carrying, misusing, and revoicing. In that sense, the encounter drew from what Fred Moten and Stefano Harney describe as “hacking concepts and squatting terms,” while also resonating with the sampled construction of Almas Hackeadas by Pumita Andino Cazador and K’ita Wichhu. Texts were approached as materials for recombination and revoicing.
The session became the seed of a future publication by Vir Andres Hera and Juf, supported by Fundación Carasso.
Vir Andres Hera, Juf Projects, Ane Rodríguez Armendáriz
Ane is a curator working between visual art, moving image, and institutional practice. She has shaped major platforms for artistic production and research in Spain such as Matadero and Tabakalera. Her practice focuses on designing the conditions that sustain artistic processes, particularly through residency programmes.
Juf is a curatorial and research project focused on contemporary art and poetry. Directed by Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra, it is based between New York and Madrid.
With the support of Fundación Carasso
