OBJECTHOOD #3
Transcript of Quim Pujol’s audio essay
The third instalment of the OBJECTHOOD series delves into monsters, otherness, hybrids, agency and fetish, with anthropologist Martin Holbraad and artist and curator Quim Pujol. Below you can find the transcript of Quim Pujol’s audio essay.
Erick Beltrán
Mexican artist Erick Beltrán shares some prominent examples from his personal research into archives and libraries.
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.
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.
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.
Anthropologist Martin Holbraad and artist and curator Quim Pujol discuss monsters, otherness, hybrids, agency and fetish.