{"id":7867,"date":"2013-06-14T07:15:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T07:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2013\/06\/14\/watch-out-for-the-plague\/"},"modified":"2017-08-07T17:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T17:57:33","slug":"watch-out-for-the-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/watch-out-for-the-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for the plague!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7846\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Plaga-langosta.jpg\" alt=\"Plaga-langosta.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"670\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Plaga-langosta.jpg 670w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Plaga-langosta-589x400.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><br \/>\nWe&#8217;d announced it on <a href=\" https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/a-desk\/163826645518\">Facebook<\/a>: watch out for the <em>Plaga<\/em> (plague)! Well this weekend it\u2019s here, with an itinerary of exhibitions and non-institutional proposals.<\/p>\n<p>For a couple of years now, but even more so this season that is drawing to a close, given the lack of motivation or at times day dreaming of the art institutions or <a href=\" http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/Ocupar-el-MACBA,2017.html\">plain disinterest in the context<\/a>, a few artists, curators and young critics have decided to put the what before the how, starting to create presentations, events and exhibitions in their houses and studios. As they all know each other, they\u2019ve decided to up the impetus and create an end of season festival. While it\u2019s taken decades for the galleries to understand each other and while the museums and institutions don\u2019t want to listen, to either the context or even to each other, it hasn\u2019t taken long for those who\u2019ve been self-organising for a while to join forces.  <\/p>\n<p>By their own definition, <a href=\" https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/festivalplaga\">Plaga<\/a> is a \u201cproliferation of art proposals in self-initiated spaces\u201d or to put it another way, spaces that are not usually used  to house art. Over the next three days, exhibitions, performances and actions will take place in private homes, artists\u2019 studios, in the street and in spaces loaned specially for the occasion. The whole programme can be consulted here:  <a href=\" http:\/\/festivalplaga.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/festivalplaga.wordpress.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the organisers there are lots of acquaintances of A*DESK, collaborators of <a href=\" http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/spip.php?lang=ca\">Highlights<\/a> and participants from the <a href=\" http:\/\/a-desk.org\/spip\/spip.php?rubrique124\">courses and workshops<\/a>. So we feel that it\u2019s also a little bit ours, and we\u2019re keen to see this proliferation of art world creatures, who, as the institutions grind to a halt, are taking the initiative to generate existence, highlight a generation and show themselves, without waiting to be called upon to do so, just like the proliferation of insects that announces that summer is here. <em>Plaga<\/em> could quite well be the announcement of a new season. <\/p>\n<p>Watch out for the <em>Plaga<\/em> and watch out for those large mammals, if they carry on with their heads in the clouds, hundreds of insects could end up exterminating them.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d announced it on Facebook: watch out for the Plaga (plague)! Well this weekend it\u2019s here, with an itinerary of exhibitions and non-institutional proposals. 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