Transcorporealities

En esta visita, la curadora Juana Berrío y la artista Delcy Morelos visitan el Museo de Oro en Bogotá. Especulan sobre el uso original de estos objetos, especialmente en nociones como el valor de uso vs el valor de consumo, la importancia ritual de estos objetos, y su conexión con el entorno natural. Con voces de Mariana Barrara Pieck, Sarah Demeuse, y Mónica de la Torre. Grabación original hecha gracias a Montez Press Radio y Library Stack (Ben Tiven y Erick Wysocan).

Curator Eloise Sweetman and artist Isabelle Sully visit Transcorporealities at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. After viewing the exhibition, they sit down and wait for a public performance to start. They talk about permeability, occupying space and time, passing through, and proper behavior. Dos adds another layer in light of the covid-19 pandemic experience in spring 2020.

Curator Juana Berrío and artist Delcy Morelos visit the Gold Museum in Bogotá, which houses the world's largest collection of pre-conquest gold artifacts. They talk about the cultural differences of valuing gold objects highlighting intrinsic, economic, ceremonial or environmental aspects; the uses of plants with power; the poporo; human-animal bodies; and how to overcome the muteness of those distant objects made by eradicated ethnicities.

Curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy and artist and writer Angie Keefer discuss the relation between maintenance and art, they highlight the artist's nurturing thinking and the relation with the workers, eventually bringing the conversation to how art and institutions could engage and shape relevant, politically engaged, civic communities.

Anna Craycroft and Harry Dodge consider the legacy of Black Mountain College and talk about sociality and learning, didactics and museum display, and inherent tensions within art education.

Prem Krishnamurthy and Emily Smith take a taxi to the airport and look at the Bucharest Biennial artworks along the road. The entire biennial consists of roadside billboards. The two discuss the exhibition and distributed form, technological mediation in the viewing and producing process, local reception, and risky driving.

Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey and David Reinfurt focus on the Scott Burton furniture-like objects in a larger group show and use it to consider objects as tools for thinking, the impact of museum display in undoing tensions between form and function, models and fossilized sketches, and the correlation between idea and cost or scale.