{"id":9688,"date":"2017-01-31T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2017\/01\/31\/strange-phenomena\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T00:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:07:02","slug":"strange-phenomena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/strange-phenomena\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange phenomena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month has passed, since we talked, half-seriously, in this <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/Strange-Phenomena-Welcome-to-2017.html\">introductory text<\/a> about the monstrosity of the current era. To us, it seemed interesting to deal with this contemporaneity, from which we so directly drink, from a critical point of view, through current expressions of art, from a clear, or not so clear, stance. Approaching the distinct without the usual respect. The monstrous, the abnormal.<\/p>\n<p>For this, we needed to cast off the weight of the political and float towards the fantastic, because, like many, we\u2019re disgusted by the terrible times that beset our century. On the other hand, although it sounds (or reads) odd, at the same time, it seems curious that what we are drawn to, in what we intrinsically reject, be precisely this, the charge of the \u201cunknown\u201d that brings with it the bearer of difference. Difference, or distance, has been tackled in this month that has brought with it such great texts, from an almost fantastical point of view, from freak love to the mystical and a fondness for the alternative language of what we consider \u201cstrange phenomena\u201d, monsters, freaks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/I-am-only-interested-in-visionary.html\">Juanjo Santos interviewed Lars Bang Larsen<\/a>, co-curator of the Sao Paulo Biennale 2016, author of the famous essay &#8221; Zombies of Immaterial Labor: the Modern Monster and the Death of Death&#8221;, a collection of essays with a sociological perspective about the tensions of contemporary art and the current economy. An interview that dealt with psychedelia as an element generating various truths, the potential of the zombie as concept and symbol\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/Post-humanism-and-Utopia-in-Aura.html\">Ana Llurba<\/a> dissected before them, the exhibition titled <em>Aura Nera<\/em>, by Regina de Miguel at the Arts Santa M\u00f2nica. An exhibition plagued with myths, <em>other<\/em> science, dark genealogies, and in short, significant spaces for this differentiated, occult space where what we call the monstrous grows and prospers. Post-humanism, mythologies, dark winds, Donna Haraway, mythological femininities, amongst much more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>On her part, <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/In-archaeology-the-context-is.html\">Caterina Almirall<\/a> published a marvellous <em>pastiche<\/em> brimming with dinosaurs and their representation and primordial conceptualization. A sort of architecture of the imagined, the projected, an archaeology realised through fragments \u2013 as an excuse \u2013 a precarious quasi-ordering of the object, rich in concept, the fruit of the assemblage of bits after their extinction.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also wallowed in excellence with <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/Four-horror-stories-in-Slow-Action.html\">Manuela Pedr\u00f3n Nicolau and her review of <em>Slow Motion<\/em><\/a>, Ben Rivers\u2019s film infected by the landscape of the strange, of islands and unknown destinations that inhabit the imaginary of unconventional science fiction, much less abstract, or speculative if you want, more open to intangible questions, to alternate codes of representation.<\/p>\n<p>And meanwhile, we turn \u2013 without a text that reviews it \u2013 to the inauguration (strange opening) of \u201cThe more we know about them, the stranger they become\u201d a cycle curated by Sonia F. Pan [[http:\/\/themoreweknowaboutthemthestrangertheybeco.me]], on floor 0 of Arts Santa M\u00f3nica which, after the intro that captivated us, starts on the 2 February with Roc Jim\u00e9nez de Cisneros. We particularly liked the subjectification of the object, the emptying of the space to reclaim its presence, one that takes on a persona, embodying almost a \u201cfabulous\u201d process, in the sense of a fable, one we don\u2019t know where it might take us. The cycle is called \u201cthe more I know them, the stranger they become\u201d and to us it seemed a magnificent colophon and starting shot to continue onwards with this search for the strange. We continue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month has passed, since we talked, half-seriously, in this introductory text about the monstrosity of the current era. 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