OBJECTHOOD #3
Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
This podcast is about objects, but more importantly, it is about some of the recent theories that offer new conceptualisations of objects in contemporary philosophy and art. This third installment of the series delves into those ideas, under a completely different light, as anthropologist Martin Holbraad and artist and curator Quim Pujol discuss monsters, otherness, hybrids, agency and fetish.
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.
Transcript of Quim Pujol’s audio essay for OBJECTHOOD #3.
Cuts, folds, scales, sound objects, charts, chimeras. Artists Erick Beltrán and Florian Hecker discuss different theories about objects in relation to their respective artistic practices.
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.
Gerald Raunig
Interview with Gerald Raunig about Molecular Revolution, philosophical activism, and the differences and similarities between recent social movements and those of the late nineteen sixties.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with the Mexican artist Erick Beltrán.