Storage #2
Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use
Specialised handlers from Feltrero. Photo: Denis Iriarte.
Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use is an action-research group that emerged at Hangar from a shared interest in storage and its widespread consequences in the arts sector. Since late 2022, the group, whose members are David Bestué, Lucia C. Pino, Francesc Ruiz, Esther Doblas, Antonio Gagliano, and Anna Manubens, has explored these often-backgrounded practices—such as storage, dismantling, recycling, disappearance and mourning—in relation to what the group sees as a missing, yet-to-be-invented infrastructure. They are interested in how these practices give rise to conversation about sustainability in the arts, dealing with overproduction and the need to imagine alternatives to the tenets of eternal heritage conservation and infinite growth.
Following the group’s work, this three-episode miniseries looks at the symptoms and possible responses to the current challenges of temporary storage and palliative curating of works and legacies. In this second instalment, Francesc Ruiz, Anna Manubens, David Bestué and Lucia C. Pino discuss some valuable experiments and experiences towards shaping a new institutional hypothesis. They discuss celebratory events, orchestrated destruction, non-backgrounded forms of maintenance, and adoption networks for artworks that are based on care without ownership. They also talk about the possibility of making space and generating forms of public memory that can accompany heritage objects as they undergo decline, disintegration and material transformation.
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Conversation: Antonio Gagliano, Francesc Ruiz, Anna Manubens, Lucía C. Pino, David Bestué and Anna Ramos. Script and sound production: Antonio Gagliano. Finalization: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros. Voice over: Valeria Brugnoli. Sounds: Albert Tarrats and Anna Ramos.
Image: Specialised handlers from the company Feltrero unpack an element of the artwork “Mà atrapant un ocell, 2024” by artist Daniel Steegmann. Photo: Denis Iriarte.
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