::::::::: SOCIOPLASTICS * Sovereign systems for unstable times: Relational Tag Collages * 2010

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Relational Tag Collages * 2010

Relational Tag Collages, also known as Hipervínculos or HIPERVÍNCULOS - Mapas Relacionales, constitute a core relational infrastructure within Anto Lloveras’s Socioplastics practice. These are dense, hyperlinked visual-textual collages that function as navigational maps of affective and conceptual states rather than static artworks. They serve as portable, distributed archives that link past activations, collaborators, ideas, and geographies into a living mesh — embodying the axiom relational topology through layered, clickable, or physically juxtaposed elements.

Tag-based assembly: Built from numbered or labelled elements — "adds" (contributions from LAPIEZA participants), posters, tags, handwritten notes, photos, scans, URLs, and fragments from previous exhibitions or interventions.
Hyperlinked structure: Each collage operates as a mapa relacional — a visual network where tags point to other nodes (people, places, dates, concepts). In physical installations, they appear as wall-mounted or floor-spread horizons; digitally, they link via blog embeds, Facebook albums, or Issuu publications.
Density and recursion: Often hundreds of elements per collage (e.g., 120 adds in Lemon Kiss). They refuse linear reading — viewers navigate rhizomatically, tracing connections across time and space.
No fixed medium: Manifest in paper posters, digital clouds, tag-collages on walls, or embedded in unstable installations. They are supple interfaces — adaptable, forkable, and always partial.

Key Appearances

Lemon Kiss (Pula, 2014): A dense horizon of tag-collages (explicitly named HIPERVÍNCULOS - MAPAS RELACIONALES) surrounded 100 bright lemons and meat cuts. 120 LAPIEZA adds + numbered posters from 10 prior exhibitions formed the relational backbone — a visual cloud that made the solo-no-solo show explicitly collective.
Taxidermy London (2015): Integrated as part of the anatomical theatre; tag-collages and relational maps supported Urban Rings and 10,000 Twins, linking dissected urban flesh to broader mesh.
HIPERVÍNCULOS numbered entries (2013–2014): Early standalone posts like HIPERVÍNCULOS 189 | SIMILITUDES (2014) and HIPERVÍNCULOS | ESTADOS RELACIONALES (2013) present states of relational renewal — collages of collaborators (Marisa Caminos, Paula Lloveras, Sebas Beyro) and thematic drifts.
EL DORADO relational topology (2026 reframing): Positioned as an essential node within the broader HIPERVÍNCULOS relational platform — the golden blanket's circulation is mapped through tag-like connections (participants, moods, postures).
Ongoing mesh role: In 2026 posts, Hipervínculos are reframed as relational cloud — a network of situated sculptures, social encounters, and translatorial drifts. They prefigure MUSE's adaptive nodes (consoles) — supple above, linking the immutable Core to lived contexts.

Conceptual Anchors

Relational cartography: Hipervínculos are mapas relacionales — not representations but operational tools for tracing affective bonds, unstable states, and migratory gestures.
Distributed authorship: Every tag/add is a contribution; authorship dissolves into the mesh — no single creator, only networked presence.
Post-relational ethics: Refuses closure or hierarchy; connections remain open, partial, and subject to recalibration.
Epistemic prosthesis: In 2026 lens, they become early prototypes for citational commitment and hyperlinked clouds — resisting semantic erosion by making relations visible and navigable.
Cross-series integration: Appear in Lemon Kiss, Taxidermy, EL DORADO, and LAPIEZA satellites — always as the connective tissue that turns isolated gestures into a unified, living organism.

Relational Collages / Hipervínculos are the visual syntax of Socioplastics: dense, non-hierarchical maps where every tag is a portal to another node. They prove that relations are not abstract — they are material, clickable, and infinitely extendable. In unstable times, these collages keep the mesh breathing — linking bodies, cities, memories, and futures without ever fixing them in place.