OBJECTHOOD #2
Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
In this second episode, Florian Hecker discusses the idea of sounds as objects and the notion of decomposition in his recent chimerical pieces, and Erick Beltrán addresses different aspects of epistemology, the self and identity that have been part of his artistic practice.
Transcript of Quim Pujol’s audio essay for OBJECTHOOD #3.
The slippery materiality of untraceable objects: from the arsenic poisoning the wells of Bangladesh as told by Nabil Ahmed, to Arie Altena's account of the superstition surrounding the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, or the bizarre biology of the vampire squid from hell in a passage of Vilém Flusser’s ‘Vampyroteuthis Infernalis’ read by AGF.
Erick Beltrán
Mexican artist Erick Beltrán shares some prominent examples from his personal research into archives and libraries.
Anthropologist Martin Holbraad and artist and curator Quim Pujol discuss monsters, otherness, hybrids, agency and fetish.
OBJECTHOOD is a series of podcasts about new perspectives on the role of the object in contemporary art and philosophy. The first interviews in this series were conducted during the seminar "Expanded Choreography. Situations, Movements, Objects...", which took place at the MACBA in March 2012.
Erick Beltrán
In his work, Mexican artist Erick Beltrán reflects on the ways in which information is legitimised by manipulating and using discourses from published material.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with the Mexican artist Erick Beltrán.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by German artist Florian Hecker and Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda.