THE RUINS

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The ruin has the capacity to repair the bodies' capacity to touch and sense by taking them out of the automatic way they relate to space. Paradoxically, the ruin brings a bodily consciousness as it moves through unstable territory. It generates something in the body, to go through the ruin, once it is encountered, it puts the body in a state of consciousness of itself, of its place in space and time, unlike other controlled and regulated spaces, in its chaotic order it places the body in a kind of extreme attention and listening. In addition to triggering the imagination and evocation of events that were or will be part of the history of the place. Ultimately it places us or functions as a mirror of our own vulnerability and finitude. The falling body. A suspended time, stopped, a sense of timelessness between rhythms. Touch, sound and smell appear as well as transit, the choice of a non-agreed itinerary to be discovered and traveled, found. Spaces in which transit has been annulled, reserved for the other, those actions, festivities, congregations that are not part of any productivist use of time, space or the body. uin has the capacity to repair the bodies' capacity to touch and sense by taking them out of the automatic way they relate to space. Paradoxically, the ruin brings a bodily consciousness as it moves through unstable territory. It generates something in the body, to go through the ruin, once it is encountered, it puts the body in a state of consciousness of itself, of its place in space and time, unlike other controlled and regulated spaces, in its chaotic order it places the body in a kind of extreme attention and listening. In addition to triggering the imagination and evocation of events that were or will be part of the history of the place. Ultimately it places us or functions as a mirror of our own vulnerability and finitude. The falling body. A suspended time, stopped, a sense of timelessness between rhythms. Touch, sound and smell appear as well as transit, the choice of a non-agreed itinerary to be discovered and traveled, found. Spaces in which transit has been annulled, reserved for the other, those actions, festivities, congregations that are not part of any productivist use of time, space or the body. 

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Spaces and times for the body in alteration or escape. The ruin inhabited by non-human life. It has lost the character of belonging or possession, in other types of places everything has to be kept at a certain distance, not so in the ruin where the very becoming finds its own order, to a decategorization that allows to be touched and moved, establishing a direct contact between body and matter. The ruin of the periphery that is made of disused spaces is not like the classical ruin, these spaces, these new ruins are perhaps the greatest witness of analysis of the system in which we are immersed and that we are seeing transform into something else that we still do not know. Marc Augé says that art is built on the ruins of religion. And that the postcolonial ethnological experience allows us to go even further and suggest that art itself in its various forms is a ruin or a promise of ruin.

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The ruins makes a tour of some modern ruins, those that remained half-finished, in a place of transition, incomplete, that have ended up being something else. They have not been inhabited but they have been occupied, traveled and worked. The ruin as a place that summons the appearance of other corporealities, throws questions and raises possibilities about what could be, what was not, what will be. The bodies that were there before and those that are yet to come. Re-constructing from what there is, what remains, what is.

The ruins is a project that works with the transformation of space, with the possibilities that it harbors and that studies at different scales the cycles of collapse and regeneration of systems, attending to the intermediate stages, that moment of transition in which a multiplicity of possibilities are present. It is a multidisciplinary project of mutable character in constant state of change, for that very reason it changes format, state and name, and the basis that sustains it is the notion of path.

This work is the continuation of a series of journeys that began in the summer of 2020 in which different types of ruins were appearing and which has had several stops:

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INSTALLATION + PERFORMANCE + TEXT + AUDIOVISUAL

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Parada I. Bailar en las ruinas (del techno) - 2020

Parada II. Poder y ruina - Surge Madrid - Octubre 2022

Parada III. Las ruinas. Un ensayo sobre la posibilidad - La Caldera Barcelona BRUTAL - Diciembre 2022

Parada IV. Manifiesto del derrumbe y la regeneración -  Publicacion Poroestratosferica La Caldera - Enero 2023

Parada V. Las Ruinas. Las ruinas albergaban semillas y estrellas. - NOW. Nauestruch Sabadell - Marzo 2023

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Technical assistance: Victor Colmenero, Jose Velasco y Sergi Faüstino.

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