FONS AUDIO #43
Mircea Cantor
Moving, blurring boundaries and roaming are some of the actions that characterise the life and work of Mircea Cantor (Oradea, Romania, 1977). Using a language based on minimal, direct, highly poetic gestures, Cantor explores the boundaries of cultural traditions and artistic genres. At the same time, he examines the fragility of the conventions and ideologies of contemporary society, criticising its mechanisms of extreme control. His videos, photographs, paintings, installations, and site specific interventions gradually weave a subtle and captivating web that invites us to rethink our identities and our places in the world.
In FONS AUDIO #43 Mircea Cantor talks about his work ‘Chaplet’ (2007), about the impact of borders and the society of control, and about the poetic resonance of tracks, materials, and other physical traces.
Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm Le Grice talks about his 1970 work "Berlin Horse", which is part of the MACBA Collection and moves on to expanded cinema, materialist structuralism, latency, suspense, and the representation of time in his work.
Mitra Azar
The Italian artist Mitra Azar talks about points of view and the disembodiment of the gaze, drones, borders, nomadism, never-ending archives, processes, the “artropocene”, and conflict zones as a breeding ground for creative practices.
Marina Gržinić
Marina Gržinić talks about amnesia, aphasia, and seizure, about biopower and necropolitics, about borders and volumes, corpus and corpses, about deathscapes, intestines, and holograms, and about the disturbing miniaturisation of affect and empathy, as a process that runs parallel to technological acceleration.
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.