The Memory of Plants: José Ramón Ais I propose a landscape essay, a garden narrative which interweaves the biographies of three historical characters with the “biographies” of the three eponymous botanical species whose scientific name was given in their honour. A Renaissance pope, an ancient philosopher, and a translator, figures who played a key…(Read More)

The seminar “Roba da matti” came out of a personal interest of mine in madness. With it, I would like to explore issues bordering on the psycopathological, madness, and psychiatric institutions. It sets up a dialogue between Silvano Agosti’s documentary Il volo (1975), psychoanalyst José María Álvarez, and psychiatrist Fernando Colina; both of…(Read More)

UIQ in Love_A Love of UIQ: The Unmaking-of is the title of a two-day workshop or ‘seeance’ led by filmmakers and artists Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson to make Félix Guattari’s unmade sci-fi film Un Amour d’UIQ exist as a collective experience, and to expand the territories of the…(Read More)

Ever since Bulegoa zenbaki barik opened in November 2010, we’ve been compiling a photographic and sound record of our public activities. We conceive the sound archive we’ve built up over the past four years not only as a mere record of what has taken place, but as a central element for our office…(Read More)

Works such as Hannah Wilke’s self-portraits during her cancer therapy, Mona Hatoum’s “inform portraits” in her Corps étranger video installation, or Marilène Oliver’s Family Portrait, to name but a few, focused attention on the medical view of the body in order to discuss the relationship between corporeality and gender politics…(Read More)

In our era of academic capitalism we are still comfortably reclining in our sofas –in our family living rooms, on the psychoanalist’s divan and in our Victorian universities-, all of which as Michel Foucault pointed out four decades ago, generate profit. I propose to rethink aspects of the university, with a focus on the…(Read More)

Schedule: August 25, 26 and 29 11:00-13:00 and 17:00-20:00 A group of, say, 10 people are sitting around a model. They are drawing her. When the model looks at the drawings, how many people will she see? I don’t understand you takes up on the Bulegoa z/b…(Read More)