FONS ÀUDIO #41
Adrian Melis
Through his photographs, videos and installations, Adrian Melis (Havana, 1985) explores how faults in production systems such as socialism and capitalism affect individuals. And he does so with the lucid gaze of a knowing ethnographer who is familiar with the critical potentialities of dialectics and the absurd.
In FONS AUDIO #41 Adrian Melis talks about contemporary Cuban art, about his formative years in Tania Brughera’s Cátedra de Arte Conducta, about the usefulness of art, and about production systems, consumer goods, dreams, and paradoxes.
Núria Güell
Núria Güell’s artistic practice always starts with a contradiction or social conflict that she feels directly challenged or affected by. These give rise to long collaborative processes in which listening, legal research, negotiation, and confrontation—as well as affinities and affects—become essential creative tools. Her practice is part of her life, and it often involves taking legal, physical, and emotional risks. In FONS AUDIO #55, Núria Güell talks to us about the processes, conversations, research, and formalisation behind the making of Ayuda humanitaria (Humanitarian aid) (2008-2013), a piece she began during the years she spent in in Cuba, which became part of the MACBA Collection in 2021.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Carlos Garaicoa that we were unable to include the first time around.
Carlos Bunga
Using ephemeral materials, Carlos Bunga addresses a galaxy of complex notions such as fragility, transience, mutation, and accident. In FONS AUDIO #30 he talks about his early video essays, about how his working process occurs, and about the imminent transitoriness of all architecture.
Carlos Garaicoa
Carlos Garaicoa talks about his education in Cuba, about the pressing need to move beyond post-colonial narratives, about his cultural activism, and about 'Yo no quiero ver más a mis vecinos' ('I Don’t Want to See My Neighbours Any More'), which forms part of the MACBA Collection.
Martí Anson
Martí Anson is an artist of multiple registers who extends and redefines, through his works, the limits of the exhibition space, the possibilities of artistic reception and the status of the artist. In FONS AUDIO #40 Martí Anson tells us about his childhood summers in La Garrotxa, his formative years, the art public, the limits of the museum and the transfers between reality and fiction.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Martí Anson that we were unable to include the first time around.