Son[i]a #414
Teresa Rubio
Teresa Rubio is a cultural mediator, educator, and collage artist. With a focus on museum education, she uses art methodologies, applying them to situations of learning, exchange, and coexistence that encourage experimentation, autonomy, and contact. Taking into account the immediate context, her situated practice understands mediation as “a space of possibility in-between” that can soften and bodily express the inherited rigidities of museums. Because, as she points out during this conversation, “when life enters the museum, things happen.”
In this podcast, Teresa Rubio fills us in on her way of understanding (and putting into practice) the third space that emerges in mediation. Much more than simply providing a few sofas, mediation entails being among and with others, which also opens up “other ways” of occupying and inhabiting the museum. For Teresa, mediation inherently contains performance, listening, and reproductive care work. Moreover, it is as much about individual authorship as it is about collective writing. And in order to realise its full potential, it often needs to be an internal process too. Therefore, we talk about love and budgets, about metaphors and collages, about complexities and conflicts and access and accessibility, and about digesting and metabolising.
Itxaso Corral
The work of artist Itxaso Corral calls on an extensive glossary of concepts, media, and practices that explore beyond the bounds of closed definitions, in a gesture that simultaneously expands the scope of possibility of so-called live arts. In this podcast, Itxaso Corral shares with us the small rituals that give shape and meaning to her artistic activities: pulsations of life that emerge through performance, dance, singing, and calligraphy as experiential spaces, which are the result of lived experience and long durations, and of the energy that arises from learning and doing with others.
Marc Larré
Marc Larré works with video, photography, sculpture and objects, giving free rein to a dilettante practice that entails attentive listening to the materials he handles, and also to the context—to his surroundings. In his thinking-by-doing, Marc generates countless unexpected connections between temporary situations, objects, and people, in order to question notions of progress and modernity. In this podcast, we talk to Marc Larré about megaliths, stones, and anti-monuments. As we listen, artisanal practices, traces, frictions, clay, and plaster make an appearance. We talk about the experiential dimension of his practice and about the connections and synergies with the art community in Barcelona. And naturally, we also talk about art, about precarity, and about the need to rethink our working conditions, together.