Son[i]a #326
Lucía Egaña
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Lucía Egaña is an artist, writer, teacher, and anti-racist transfeminist activist. She was born in Münster, Germany, grew up in Chile, and migrated to Barcelona, where she now lives. Lucía is a misfit researcher who for years has been implementing protocols designed to self-institute practices and spaces underpinned by a collective approach, such as the Institute of Porn Studies, the Musea M.A.M.I, the Extractive Nature Studies Centre, and the Women Technicians Cooperative.
Her methodology is undisciplined (or, as she says, subnormal), championing the bizarre, dirty, and marginal as a fertile testing ground for various relational, educational, and/or artistic devices. A range of experiments that may coalesce as informal pedagogies and subaltern knowledges, or take the form of dissident archives, installations, videos, or audios in larval state. In everything she does, Lucia adamantly reflects on the dangers of assuming the universality of practices that are in fact partial, and persists in the gesture of dissolving the hierarchical relationship between the researching subject and the researched subject/object.
In this podcast we talk to Lucía Egaña about pedagogical processes, bibliographic dissent, wild writing, and the generative and affirmative potential of rage. We discuss identity politics, single-sex spaces, friendship as an engine for research, and the power of processes organised around informality and affects.
Interview: Verónica Lahitte, Antonio Gagliano, Violeta Ospina, Anna Ramos. Production: Verónica Lahitte and Antonio Gagliano. Sound: RWM's sound library.
Lucía C. Pino
Artist Lucía C. Pino approaches her sculptural work as a conversation with the materials, the media and the surroundings—in relation to where they come from as well as the place they will occupy—, emphasising their performative aspect and their interdependence with her every move. It is a practice that is not easily defined, permeated by a wide range of interests, influences and concerns, among which Lucía includes the rituals of reading, writing, and doing-with-others. In FONS ÀUDIO #58, Lucía C. Pino presents Non-Slave Tenderness, 2018.
Escenas eliminadas
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with artist, researcher and activist Lucía Egaña that we were unable to include the first time around.
val flores
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Fefa Vila
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Cabello/Carceller
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Maria F. Dolores/AMOQA
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