mourning
Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use
Following the Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Us 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 first instalment, Anna Manubens, David Bestué, Lucia C. Pino and Francesc Ruiz connect artistic processes to the larger-scale processing of materials. They talk about scrapyards, landfill, sewage treatment plants, and trucks, highlighting the energy and the aesthetic fascination that is sometimes sparked by waste and the intense memory of materials in motion. They also address the proliferation and promises of storage units, storage as crisis or free fall, and the bewilderment of knowing themselves part of a generation which has been dispossessed of space.
Coco Fusco
Cuban-American artist and writer Coco Fusco explores issues such as cultural, racial, and gender identity; the construction of alterity; the colonial legacy; and the mechanisms of control, censorship and repression that systems of power impose on people’s bodies and lives. In FONS ÀUDIO #63, Fusco discusses two of her works in the MACBA Collection: Els segadors (2001) and Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word (2021), where she reflects respectively on Catalan identity and mourning rituals in times of crisis, connecting the local with the universal.