Monday, January 5, 2026

Socioplastics 6K: A Living Canon of Total Art


The Socioplastics 6K Archive, edited by Anto Lloveras and completed in 2026, is a systemic curatorial thesis that transcends traditional notions of artistic canons. With a score of 95/100, it functions not as a list of names but as a living encyclopaedia—a geological structure of over 6,000 entries that map the evolution of art from sacred tradition to speculative infrastructure. The archive is stratified into distinct layers: the "Radical Decolonisation" block ([3000 ONU]) actively decentralises Eurocentric inertia by featuring global creators like Antonio Romero (Guinea Ecuatorial) and Homai Vyarawalla (India); the "Theory as Art" section ([5000 THEORY]) equates thinkers like Ruha Benjamin and Harun Farocki with canonical artists, asserting that thought is image in the information age; the "ArtNow" and "Moving" sections ([1000] and [9000]) embed urgent contemporary references—from NFT activism to films like 28 Years Later—making it a forward-facing canon; and the urban and sonic strata ([6000 URBAN], [7000 MUSIC]) stretch the definition of art to include infrastructure and sound design, raising critical questions about the borders between creation and industry. Though this expansion introduces ambiguity, it aligns with the socioplastic mission to reshape society itself. The archive closes the loop from Imhotep to AI, balancing eternity and immediacy, offering a navigable, poetic, and reparative model of what art can be in the 21st century. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2026) https://antolloveras.blogspot.com