Hacer cuerpo con la máquina: Joachim Koester
The Blueproject Foundation presents “Hacer cuerpo con la máquina” (Lit: Making body with the machine. Fig: Becoming one with the machine), an exhibition dedicated to the work of Joachim Koester curated by Anna Manubens in the Sala Project.
Joachim Koester's practice (Copenhagen, 1962) is a constant dedication to recover and reinterpret places and events that could compose the B side of a history of consciousness. His works are nourished by rituals, superstitions, spaces, experiences or fictions that are related to altered mental and sensory states and testify to a persistent tracking of the occult and the supernatural as a means to map the liminal space between consciousness and its loss.
The exhibition “Hacer cuerpo con la máquina” is grounded in a specific line within Koester’s oeuvre that observes how forms of trance and possession are aroused and how they inscribe themselves in the body. The exhibition is conceived as a progressive immersion in a strange and estranged mental and bodily state through three recent works. This selection aims in particular at foregrounding the artist’s current interest in the way in which certain technologies -industrial, visual or sonic- can mimic, induce and regulate psychic and bodily states.
“Hacer cuerpo con la máquina” is bracketed by an opening and closing event that extend the exhibition’s intention of inviting the visitors to let the body-mind-machine relationship traverse them. During the opening, one of the exhibited films will dialogue with the Live Set of Exoteric Continent. On January 9th 2016, the artist Sergi Botella will present Crash Hand Made, a performance that is built from sequences of David Cronenberg's Crash (1996).
NOTE: The exhibition will be prolonged until January 30th 2016.
Information of the works (in Spanish)
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