The seminal series Cuerpos Filmados (Filmed Bodies), spanning the decade from 2008 to 2018, represents a monumental effort in the cataloguing of Active Socioplastics. This project, a cornerstone of Anto Lloveras’s "Positional Essays," functions as an online meta-film—a rhizomatic archive that captures the intersection of relational art, urbanism, and performance. By documenting a vast constellation of agents—from established thinkers like David Harvey and Jonas Mekas to flamenco masters at Casa Patas and avant-garde architects like Iñaki Ábalos—the series constructs a "Social Sculpture" that is both digital and corporeal. These are not merely portraits; they are situational fixers of human agency, recorded at the precise moment where their professional "work" bleeds into the aesthetic fabric of the city. The methodology of Filmados operates on the principle of the "Relational Art Series," where the camera acts as a connective tissue between disparate urban territories. Whether capturing the "Gourmet Anthropophagy" of César Martínez Silva in Mexico DF or the "Algorithmic Solidarity" of connected subjects with Remedios Zafra, the decade of work explores the body as a site of political and spatial resistance. The archive maps a global trajectory—Madrid, Mexico City, Trondheim, Santo Domingo—treating each location as a laboratory for Socioplastic research. By archiving these "filmed bodies," Lloveras and his collaborators at LAPIEZA Art Series have created a permanent record of the "Fifth City," a space where architecture, epistemology, and art converge to challenge the transience of the digital age.
A decade later, as the subjects of this archive have aged and the urban contexts have shifted, the question arises: Shall we do it again? Re-visiting these "Positional Essays" today offers a profound opportunity to measure the tectonics of memory. The original series established a baseline for what Lloveras terms "People at Work," a naturalistic observation of the creative and intellectual labor that sustains a civilization. To repeat the process now would be to engage in a transgenerational dialogue, comparing the "Unstable Social Installations" of 2008 with the ecological and algorithmic realities of 2026. It would transform the series from a historical archive into a longitudinal study of Biospheric Humanism, tracing the evolution of the "filmed body" through the inevitable decay and growth of the planetary crisis. Ultimately, Cuerpos Filmados (2008-2018) remains a manifesto for the power of the collective. It proves that the most enduring "large sculpture" is the network of human relationships itself. From the "Sugar Rain" of Elise Plain to the "Environmental Psychology" of José Antonio Corraliza, the series argues that art is most potent when it is embedded in the daily ritual of survival and creation. As we look toward the next decade, the "Trans Lighthouse" of this archive continues to flash, inviting a new generation of artists, practitioners, and "filmed bodies" to join the ongoing socioplastic construction of our shared reality. The game remains open; the word is still being found.
ANTO LLOVERAS
SOCIOPLASTICS
Lloveras, A. (2013) FILMADOS (2008-2018): First Decade of Relational Essays. [Archive/Online Meta-Film] Anto Lloveras / LAPIEZA Art Series. Available at:
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OMAR JEREZ - JEW WALK
HECTRUSO - MINIROC - ACCIÓN SALINAS DE ALMERÍA
LINEAS ALBIÉS - CARGAS IMPOSIBLES - MEX DF HCIA LA MERCED
ANTONI MIRALDA - PEEL OFF
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IÑAKI ÁBALOS - TOTUM REVOLUTUM - CONGRESO ARQUITECTOS 2009
JUAN GRACÍA PERROTE - EXPOSE YOURSELF
LUIS DIAS - BUFEO 2009 - CASA DE LIMBER VILORIO
RUBÉN BONET - TERRAZA LA ROMA - MEX DF 2013
TOMOHARU PEÑA - SAXO DINÁMICO - ACCIÓN EN LA INSTALACIÓN
ALFONSINA RAMÍREZ - BUZONES - INERVENCIÓN
ANAMUSMA - A DAY OF WORK - NATURALISMO
ZAIDA MUXÍ - SOMOS FRÁGILES - BARCELONA
LUIS FERNÁNDEZ GALIANO - CONGRESO ARQUITECTOS - 2009
CHLOE - TODOS LOS CALLEJONES - LAPIEZA
SEBAS BEYRO - PLAYMOS DEAD - FACHADA LAPIEZA
BELÉN LÓPEZ - BAILAORA - CASA PATAS
LUIS FORES - APATRIDIAS - ACCIÓN MADRID
LIMBER VILORIO - CARTOGRAFÍAS DEL PODER - EXPO
SERGIO FERNÁNDEZ - SKY - ESTÁS PESCADO
PAULA LLOVERAS - PAN - ACCIÓN - LAPIEZA
MARÍA ENRÍQUEZ - CARAS CDS EL INTRUSO LAPIEZA
JONAS MEKAS - MEXICO 2013 - FILMOTECA NACIONAL
KIRA O REILLY - PERFORMANCE - SEMINARIO
DAVID HARVEY - BEING LOST - MUSEO REINA SOFÍA - MADRID
PEPE BALLESTEROS - LA BUENA OCASIÓN
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