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gemadarbo.persona.co https://gemadarbo.com gemadarbo.persona.co Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:09:51 +0000 https://gemadarbo.com en Untitled page http://gemadarbo.com/Untitled-page-1 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:09:51 +0000 gemadarbo.persona.co 406912 Qualsevol Lloc/ Anyplace http://gemadarbo.com/Qualsevol-Lloc-Anyplace Wed, 04 Mar 2020 08:20:29 +0000 gemadarbo.persona.co 358169 Qualsevol Lloc / Anyplace 2022, video installationWatch!Noha Mokhtar, Júlia Nueno Guitart and Xavier Nueno Guitart. The project is an investigation of the processes of standardization of domestic and urban construction in Barcelona. As in other cities in the global north, the reorganization of spaces and the management of the massive flow of people by digital platforms, points to the existence of a digital infrastructure that at the same time projects its own image onto the city. The work is presented in the form of a video installation that pays attention to the work processes that sustain the mechanisms of reproduction of places and objects resulting from the encounter between mass tourism and digital economies at local and global scales. <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/632460ab8a3b0f564b90e53c7a79ffac52d969056ad9a62b6c4cf480831dbf68/Anyplace_0.jpg" data-mid="1253140" border="0" />  Anyplace/Qualsevol Lloc (2022) Noha Mokhtar, Júlia Nueno and Xavier Nueno. Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica. Images: Claudia Mauriño.<img width="1500" height="2249" width_o="1500" height_o="2249" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ac3a04bea12183042a7a47ee7558cd4c1b71cf536d978ebf3349cd257cf44622/Anyplace_2.jpg" data-mid="1253141" border="0" /> Anyplace/Qualsevol Lloc (2022) Noha Mokhtar, Júlia Nueno and Xavier Nueno. Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica. Images: Claudia Mauriño.<img width="1500" height="2249" width_o="1500" height_o="2249" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b86fdc2f3728f573053dddbcd8f68d15681e274fc3dd53cf39167dea296a9e94/Anyplace_3.jpg" data-mid="1253142" border="0" /> Anyplace/Qualsevol Lloc (2022) Noha Mokhtar, Júlia Nueno and Xavier Nueno. Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica. Images: Claudia Mauriño. <img width="1500" height="2249" width_o="1500" height_o="2249" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9d8456acc86236d993abb2bddbfdf2e62162c9c6897cbab5afc4ab7c5db5e87b/Anyplace_4.jpg" data-mid="1253143" border="0" />   Anyplace/Qualsevol Lloc (2022) Noha Mokhtar, Júlia Nueno and Xavier Nueno. Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica. Images: Claudia Mauriño.<img width="1500" height="2249" width_o="1500" height_o="2249" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/89387b71f46d0c9b7d181388b28f25efbaf71cc2bbd010808819df3ccfeaa11f/Anyplace_3.jpg" data-mid="1253144" border="0" />Anyplace/Qualsevol Lloc (2022) Noha Mokhtar, Júlia Nueno and Xavier Nueno. Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica. Images: Claudia Mauriño. Qualsevol Lloc / Anyplace 2022, video installationWatch!Noha Mokhtar, Júlia Nueno Guitart and Xavier Nueno Guitart. The project is an investigation of the... Gema Darbo http://gemadarbo.com/Gema-Darbo Tue, 28 May 2019 16:04:49 +0000 gemadarbo.persona.co 325253 Gema Darbo is an independent curator and PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. Curatorial projects, research, writing and selected exhibitions:‘Choreographic Samplers’, Alejandra Mizrahi and Unión Textiles SemillasAbrir un camino. Encuentro con Claudia Alarcón y Andrei Fernández en Paisanaje, Madrid; Curadoría, ‘No Nile View’, Noha Mokhtar. Apsara Studio, London; Lecture Curadoría y policrisis en la Facultad de Artes, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina; Research Associate for ‘Spectral Infrastructure’, freethought; Curatorial residency UNIDEE Residency Program. Cittadellartte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy; Exhibition text, ‘La Voltereta: Vaca minando un bichito’. Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid; Curatorial, ‘Qualsevol Lloc/Anyplace‘,Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona; Q&A La Voltereta (The Somersault), Cineteca Madrid; (crear) Situacions: Art i pensament participatiu. Curatorial training program at Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona; Readers e-flux: Support Bubble, compiled with curator Deniz Kirkali; Absent Audience: Practising Terminology. Talk and workshop with Sixtyeight Art Institute at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen; Interview Fabra i Coats, Barcelona; Curatorial residency granted in Barcelona & Madrid, Matadero Centre for Artists in Residence, LOOP, Fabra i Coats and Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica; Absent Audience Conference at Goldsmiths University of London; Interview [ANTI]MATERIA Cámara de Maravillas, México DF; Photobook Ruta 234,Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Madrid; Diffractions Without Organs,Nan Studios, London. Voice is Open Source, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London; Tocar el Pueblo Sala Cuarto Espacio, Zaragoza. <img width="474" height="597" width_o="474" height_o="597" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/627dcda5f831d25089ff210600e7482ef20d0b8eb282b0392d812437ae806023/Screenshot-2019-05-29-at-12.34.23.png" data-mid="716712" border="0" />Contact: gema@gemadarbo.com Gema Darbo is an independent curator and PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. Curatorial projects, research, writing and selected... Ruta 234 http://gemadarbo.com/Ruta-234 Wed, 22 May 2019 18:17:51 +0000 gemadarbo.persona.co 324459 < back to Gema DarboRuta 234 2018, photobook In summer 2018, I invited photographer Ruben Ortiz to drive through the route 234. With almost 300 miles, the Spanish road N-234 crosses one of the least populous areas in Europe. Reflecting on the interaction generated by digital participation between two realities of differentiation, the book presents the result of a roadtrip: an observation of the blurred lines that divide the rural and the industrial, the oblivion and the opportunity. <img width="5445" height="3630" width_o="5445" height_o="3630" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c440256da03884439494962790809f17fc86cf70945d6a56e3aeae6cc7f58c99/_MG_5109.jpg" data-mid="716101" border="0" /><img width="5692" height="3795" width_o="5692" height_o="3795" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6eaa0342b0dacf2f7bd6144ed271f6b5496b1d640be377d2d75cd3799d824c55/_MG_5111.jpg" data-mid="716102" border="0" /><img width="5313" height="3543" width_o="5313" height_o="3543" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4c96411bd07e9277057d277002f04471ef26925ae07fd8074ae6174e59e73a27/_MG_5112.jpg" data-mid="716103" border="0" /><img width="5569" height="3713" width_o="5569" height_o="3713" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/32f9be89fa3709bc73adc2ed604c7ed646c8465ab2ea108405ae636fd3dd1b35/_MG_5113.jpg" data-mid="716105" border="0" /><img width="5417" height="3611" width_o="5417" height_o="3611" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/08ed89d49ea31898da6841199a65358d94593e1c1d8fc3f68a636c3647c1e12d/_MG_5116.jpg" data-mid="716106" border="0" /><img width="5323" height="3549" width_o="5323" height_o="3549" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6e909fd0e232cc88c08d09ad56c00a91b331811efa885beb65f237224fd23536/_MG_5117.jpg" data-mid="716107" border="0" /><img width="5547" height="3697" width_o="5547" height_o="3697" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/52b73f32a5bb7a06e6860c4ce94217935e6b49fa43600c338b74c8628eb88bc9/_MG_5119.jpg" data-mid="716108" border="0" /><img width="5133" height="3422" width_o="5133" height_o="3422" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/763102c5de94bcedf887cb7632ced62735028c3000d7e732a007592111c7006a/_MG_5120.jpg" data-mid="716109" border="0" /><img width="5531" height="3687" width_o="5531" height_o="3687" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/170f68e6eb0ad9db83b8d944129ca478565b23d70cf2c1074227184852e1dca0/_MG_5121.jpg" data-mid="716110" border="0" />Publised by: Pueblos en Arte y Ministerio de Cultura y DeportesFormat: HardcoverEdition: 170 copies signed and numberedSize: 19.7 x 26.6 cmNumber of pages: 80Type of printing: Offset. Agpograf, BarcelonaISBN: 978-84-09-08546-0 < back to Gema DarboRuta 234 2018, photobook In summer 2018, I invited photographer Ruben Ortiz to drive through the route 234. With almost 300 miles, the... Voice is open source http://gemadarbo.com/Voice-is-open-source Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:46:37 +0000 gemadarbo.persona.co 303595 < back to Gema DarboVoice is Open Source 2019, performance  Presented on the occasion of the event Tate Exchange: Come Together: Art & Politics in a Climate of Unrest, this was a collaboration with Spanish artist Ariadna Guiteras whose practice uses performance as a medium to speculate about the connection between the body and the voice - the relationships that bring them into being, the shared knowledges that permeate and the way those are disseminated. As part of her ongoing research on the porosity of the bodies and particularly in the voice, Guiteras focuses her research on Spiritism, the science that believed in the existence of incorporeal beings, to use the body as a medium to trigger with contemporary ideas of the corporeal. London was a crucial city in the history of Spiritism. This pseudo-science became popular at the end of the nineteenth century, particularly in London, Paris and Barcelona, and was entangled with progressive politics. Spiritists believed in gender equality, animal and human rights, the abolition of military forces and secularism. Within Spiritism, mediums, usually women, were the main source of connection with “the afterlife”. Central to this study of the body as a medium, its porousness (as it hosted other people’s) and its queerness (as it could embody both female and male), two factors that allowed them access to male-only spaces, and anticipated current notions of the body. As a result of this collaboration and my first experience as a performer, both Ariadna’s and my voice were entangled in the form of a bee, a red stone, the medium Maria and Spanish anarchist Amalia Domingo Soler.<img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/db8fd9b78ac5511202c7953c4c5a50a7fea76a3b5c090d78524c7744563a9c79/SAAS_Tate_01.jpg" data-mid="681264" border="0" /> < back to Gema DarboVoice is Open Source 2019, performance  Presented on the occasion of the event Tate Exchange: Come Together: Art & Politics in... Tocar el pueblo http://gemadarbo.com/Tocar-el-pueblo Sun, 16 Dec 2018 05:25:02 +0000 gemadarbo.persona.co 302886 < back to Gema Darbo Tocar el pueblo - Lena Heubusch & Ariadna Guiteras Project: Pueblos en Arte Exhibition:Cuarto Espacio, Zaragoza Press: La Vanguardia, El Miron de Soria, Celtibérica, Diputacion de Zaragoza.The exhibition presents the result of a collaboration between Ariadna Guiteras and Lena Heubusch within the framework of project Ruta 234. Through a series of collective intra-actions, the project attempts to overcome dichotomies between village-city - between the rural and the industrial - proposing a transversal body of work that disrupts traditional narrativizations of the relation between nature and culture. How can we understand one of the least populous areas of Europe as a body that exists as the sum of its realities and particularities – an organism reactive to the politics, desires and needs of all its inhabiting entities. Sound installation Voz piedra attempts to break with a static and binary logic through the story of a situated voice; one that speaks through multiple subjectivities and narrativizes the experience of a journey that runs through a body that is the sum of a multitude of other voices. What we find narrated is a fragmented, de-territorialized and amplified history that invites us to look again at the environment of rural Spain as a site of political signification. Tocar el pueblo gives a title both to the exhibition and to a series of video-actions that hybridize the gestural, the sensual and the affective. When the village is touched, how close are we to it? The German term Taktgefühl reminds us that the sense of touch not only allows organisms to perceive the qualities of objects but also to approach their material-affective dimension from the dynamics of mutual care. The supporting and caressing of stone or of lichen are practices that at the same time underline a need to strengthen the transmission of non-traditional forms of knowledge. Thinking a territory from a material perspective means understanding that its political geology is made up of diverse temporalities, displacements and multiple knowledges. Formulated as a sculptural image, the installation Noventa y dos adobas de una casa que se cae, allows us to observe processes of destruction, material condensation and collective transformation from the remains of an adobe ruin. Here we find residues of a human and non-human architecture, which becomes a modern topography laminated by technology. Projecting a space for possible future realities, each adoba contains an imprint of the bodies of those who passed through other villages before.    < back to Gema Darbo Tocar el pueblo - Lena Heubusch & Ariadna Guiteras Project: Pueblos en Arte Exhibition:Cuarto Espacio, Zaragoza Press:...