Monday, February 2, 2026

09 | Collectives * HYBRID ANATOMIES (Shared Authorship as Epistemic Strategy)

HYBRID ANATOMIES explores the dissolution of the individual subject into a collective, symphonic presence, echoing the "social sculptures" of Joseph Beuys and the agonistic, conceptual grit of the Dadaists. This category maps the rotational frames of social interaction and the sonic legacies of shared authorship. By navigating unstable symphonic rituals and minimal sculptural gestures, we foster a transdisciplinary dialogue where collective agency becomes a survival strategy against the atomization of the modern subject. This is a rhizomatic synthesis where the rituals of the vernacular and tactile ethics overlap. Here, the artist co-exists with failed machines and metabolic filters, creating a vibrant, communal anatomy that reclaims the public square as a site of mutual dependency.


091-FLIPAS: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/flipas-as-moving-archive-urban-gesture.html 059-WORK-THREADS: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/threads-as-critical-infrastructure.html 034-WORK-INTRUSO: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/bordados-sisters-sonic-legacy-of-el.html


Collective practice is treated as a medium: temporary laboratories of shared authorship, agonistic dialogue, and process-based creation. Projects explore social sculpture, urban action, and collaborative research to reshape cultural and institutional structures.


Collective work here is not a supplement to individual practice—it is a medium in itself, a fragile organism where authorship dissolves into exchange. To work collectively means to accept risk, antagonism, generosity, and the instability of voices overlapping. These groups are not permanent institutions but temporary laboratories, born from urgency and often dissolving once their resonance has been exhausted. What remains are traces: installations, documents, rituals, and above all, the memory of acting together. LAPIEZA functioned as a gallery without walls, a container for weekly “mutations” in which artists intervened live, in real time. Soil filled rooms, bodies became architecture, objects transformed under collective authorship. The emphasis was not on display but on process: the gallery as social sculpture, open to contingency. PLANCTON, in contrast, was conceived as a one-year experimental collective—an unstable “catalyst squad” that mixed action, theory, and performance, questioning the boundaries between personal and shared authorship before dissolving deliberately. CAPA, the Political Council for Agonistic Practices, sought to rethink collectivity itself as a field of conflict and strategy: a rotating network of thinkers, artists, and theorists producing micro-essays and interventions rather than fixed works. In each case, the collective becomes both method and artwork. To sit in conversation, to share a ritual meal, to build an installation together, or to burn a totem in a rural field—all these acts operate as forms of sculpture, choreography, pedagogy, and resistance. The collective moment is not an illustration of togetherness but the performance of it, with all its tensions, failures, and unpredictable energies. These experiments propose collectivity not as consensus but as a way to inhabit difference: to allow dissonance, plurality, and conflict to become productive material. In doing so, they push against the art world’s obsession with individual authorship, opening instead to shared processes that are unstable, porous, and ultimately more alive.


NODES


001-TOPO-URBANISM: Shaded, Collective, and Walkable Landscapes

002-TOPO-ARCHITECTURE: Minimal, Porous, and Open to the World

003-TOPO-RESEARCH: Crossing Ecology, Anthropology, and Space

004-TOPO-TEACHING: Workshops, Studios, and Radical Pedagogy

005-TOPO-ESSAYS: Writing Becomes Spatial

006-TOPO-EXHIBITIONS: Biennials, Triennials, and Museums

007-TOPO-ART: Installations, Performances, and Objects

008-TOPO-SERIES: Articulating Practice as Ecologies

009-TOPO-COLLECTIVES: Shared Authorship as Epistemic Strategy

010-TOPO-FILMS: Essay, Performance, and the Archive


Collective authorship builds HybridAnatomies where individual epistemic nodes are fused into a singular socioplastic synthesis. By activating DistributedAuthority, we redirect power within the OS to advance a unified, collective front. This EpistemicPhalanx moves as consolidated tactical armor, proving that shared sovereignty is our most impenetrable defense.