VIDEO DE LA ACCIÓN
miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2014
VENUS | STICK ON ME | CULTURA POP
VIDEO DE LA ACCIÓN
miércoles, 7 de mayo de 2014
TÓTEM | PLANCTON | 03.05.14
The TÓTEM action, developed under the Plancton framework, unfolded as a performative gathering in the rural periphery, where a group of artists orchestrated a temporary installation culminating in its deliberate incineration. This collective event, conducted outside the institutional space, became a platform for dialogue-based co-creation, merging the material and symbolic dimensions of the work. Over food and conversation, contributions ranging from sculptural fragments to wearable performance relics were assembled into a precarious totemic structure, designed not for permanence but for ritualised combustion. The performative nature of the event echoed traditions in relational aesthetics, particularly the dematerialisation of the art object as theorised by Bishop (2004), while simultaneously invoking Spoerri's edible tableaux and Tiravanija’s participatory cuisine. As the group roamed the surrounding landscape in search of combustible elements, they enacted a site-specific intervention that blurred the boundary between art production and pastoral labour. The act of burning, both destructive and commemorative, generated a shared aesthetic memory anchored in its transience. The fire, once lit at sixteen points by individual participants, became the fulcrum around which meaning was negotiated and archived, not in the artefact, but in the documentation and embodied memory of those present. This gesture aligns with Taylor’s assertion that performance is a vital form of transmission of cultural memory (Taylor, 2003). The TÓTEM, thus, is not merely consumed by fire but transformed into a mnemonic device, a fleeting sculpture that resists commodification while enabling a powerful collective reflection on artistic process, authorship, and ritualised destruction. As the smoke dissipated and the group returned to Madrid, they carried with them the residue of an artwork no longer extant but indelibly inscribed in their collaborative experience.
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JAVIER PÉREZ ARANDA
http://javierperezaranda.
ANDRÉS MONTES
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