Son[i]a #354
Daniel Gasol
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Daniel Gasol (Tarragona, 1983) describes himself as a “faggot child of the proletariat and cultural worker,” not (just) to provoke a response, but as a carefully calibrated strategy, fully aware that it immediately highlights the class privilege that informs any contemporary artistic practice and possibility of being. Moving on from there, discipline is the next pitfall that he avoids without batting an eyelid, through a practice that goes from almost invisible gestures in highly personal pieces and actions such as Trabajos forzosos (Forced Labour) to an activity that does not separate research and writing to objects, video, graphic art, installations, working with the archive, and thinking with others. “Anti-discipline”, he calls it. As required, it also extends to mediation, critical pedagogies, and group dynamics: all tools that he uses freely to dismantle dominant discourses around identity, work, class, and consumption.
In this podcast, Daniel Gasol explores the research and formulation of his project Orden público: Vagos, Maleantes y Peligrosidad Social (Public Order: Bums, Crooks, and Social Danger). An against-the-grain reading of Spain’s Vagrancy Law (1933-1970) and Law of Social Danger (1970-1995) through the prism of class, in which he reviews literature and criminal records from the National Archive of Catalonia in order to show the criminalisation of the underprivileged classes and of the proletarian body. File smuggling, accepting insults, working with what’s at hand, and hacking work spaces come up during the conversation as examples of survival tactics for living on the margins of the art system.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with researcher, artist and cultural worker Daniel Gasol. We talk about the instrumentalisation of difference, the melancholy of normality, research practice, legitimised and non-legitimised knowledge… and a bunch of mid-to-long term plans.
El Palomar
In FONS AUDIO #53 El Palomar tell us about their work in the MACBA collection Not Only Homophiles Are Homosexual, but Also Those Blinded by the Lost Phallus, a project in which they take up an unfinished, unproduced script by essayist and anthropologist Alberto Cardín and decide to make the film by their own means. In the course of rereading (and rewriting) Cardín’s cinematic vision, and through a process of immersion and meticulous research into its immediate context and background, El Palomar reconstruct a chapter in our history of sexual dissent, which is today still full of gaps and absences. Chief among them, Alberto Cardín.
Fefa Vila
Fefa Vila Nuñez is a queer feminist ‘artivist’, sociologist, mother, essayist, teacher, and many other things. Fefa was one of the founders of the lesbian collective LSD (1993-1998), which was, together with La Radical Gai, one of the touchstones of queer artivism in Spain in the 1990s. Through their political-artistic actions, LSD and La Radi defended new ways of understanding the body, sex, life, death, desire, friendship, family and work relationships, and political action. In this podcast, Fefa Vila reflects aloud on queerness as a state of radical estrangement, which is constantly being redefined. She also talks about the need to experience other forms of sociability, about other affective-relational models and about motherhood.
An audiotour through Barcelona's underground scene of the 1970s
This audiotour will take us to some of the key places where people gathered, discussed and engaged in independent, collective production during the seventies.