InfraManteniment Presentation: LaaS Poster Collection & Almacén Publication
Next Tuesday, July 14 at 6:00 pm, two editorial objects will be presented in Sala Ricson, crystallizing some of the learnings from InfraManteniment, a line of practical research that Hangar has promoted over the last four years to dedicate attention, time, and resources to creating, repairing, maintaining, or even dismantling infrastructures of all kinds.
The LaaS (Life as a Service) poster collection has been co-produced with TITiPI (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest) and gathers the research mobilized by Jara Rocha on the vital consequences of the implementation of cloud computing. In political-aesthetic terms, it is a regime that prescribes the feasible and the thinkable, flattens and standardizes the most everyday experience, stiffens the material conditions of possibility in the distribution of the experience with the technological, and imposes logistically mediated schemes of subjectivity and coexistence. In their presentation, Jara will share their experience during the Hangar-La Virreina fellowship and will navigate their narrative compendium in wiki format. The four posters designed by Alix Turcq—in several languages and with variegated routes—stir the voices of the collaborators, interviewees, and accomplices summoned during the research process.
For its part, the action-research group Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use will share its print publication, edited by Antonio Gagliano and Julia Montilla, which, as printed matter, complements the podcast trilogy co-produced with Ràdio Web MACBA and the public return of the project. Brought together around a widespread concern for storage and all its consequences in the art sector, the group has addressed since late 2022 the different ways in which often eclipsed practices such as storage, dismantling, recycling, disappearance, or mourning promote a conversation about the sustainability of the artistic context, the confrontation with overproduction, or the need to imagine alternatives to the postulate of perpetual heritage conservation or infinite growth. Designed by Diego Bustamante, the book includes new textual productions by David Bestué, Lucia C. Pino, Antonio Gagliano, Anna Manubens, and Francesc Ruiz, and a series of drawings specially made by Toni Hervás.
In addition to the publications gifted to the attendees, there will be air conditioning and ice-cold drinks to protect us from the heat.
