The irruption

The ecological, climatic and social crisis that we are going through provides us with multiple ecosystemic upheavals, such as the pandemic moment we are still experiencing. However, although the disturbances are narrated as isolated irruptions, they belong to a continuum of accumulated phenomena. The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the many symptoms of the profound exhaustion and slow, unevenly distributed violence resulting from the industrial and institutional extractive depletions and macro-operations that have been carried out in the name of developmentalism and progress, within the framework of colonial capitalist modernity. This exhibition proposes a set of pieces and projects that, from different positions, investigate this situation and the possibilities of art (always limited and partial) to re-politicise the imaginations, traumas, fears and urgencies that challenge and instigate us to irrupt otherwise, under response-able conditions from within the environmental and socio-economic collapse into which planet Earth has been plunged. The selection of works has been carried out within the framework of a public call for entries jointly developed by the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2022 (ISEA 2022) and the Santa Mònica arts centre. Its display in the exhibition space has been conceived as an invitation for visitors to explore the exhibition by tracing their own narrative or following some of the specific itineraries proposed by the curators and guest collaborators.

Inauguration of The irruption at Santa Mònica: 09.06.2022 at 19h

Artists / exhibited work:
Erich Berger / Spectral Landscapes 
Uwe Brunner + Bettina Katja Lange + Joan Soler-Adillon / #See You at  Home - The Domestic Spaces as Public Encounter 
Joana Chicau + Jonathan Chaim Reus / Anatomies of Intelligence 
Chanee Choi / Unreal Window 
Erik Contreras / Opportunity in Obsolescence 
Roderick Luis Coover + Nick Montfort + Adam Vidiksis / It will happen here in Barcelona / Tindrà lloc aquí a Barcelona 
Derek Curry + Jennifer Gradecki / Infodemic 
Sara Dean + Beth Ferguson + Marina Monsonís / Tools for a Warming Planet 
Joelle Dietrick + Owen Mundy / Tally Saves the Internet 
Nikolas Gomes / Concerto para Piano e Pandemia 
Andy Gracie / EoE Triptych #1 
Xuanyang Huang / Imaginary Sunset 
Colin Ives / Vibrant Landscapes 
Shona Kitchen / Other Days, Other Eyes 
Lauren Lee McCarthy / Muted 
Irma Marco / Can the Mind Exist without a Body 
Rosell Meseguer / Quadra Minerale – Rare Earths 
Jane Chang Mi / ゴジラ/ɡɒdˈzɪlə 
Kasia Molga / How to Make an Ocean 
Marina Núñez / Still Life (Tornadoes) & Still Life (Swell) 
S4RA / privacy-GrDN.info 
Robertina Šebjanič + Sofia Crespo + Feileacan McCormick / AquA(l)formings – Interweaving the Subaqueous 
Laura Splan / Syndemic Sublime 
Nooroa Tapuni / Waiting for Other 
Weidi Zhang / Repository 

Exhibition's activities and activations:
07.06 / 11h: Carn viva 1.1. Workshop of corporal self-learnings 
09.06 / 19h: Inauguration of the exhibition The irruption
10.06 / 19h: Performance Anatomies of Intelligence / Joana Chicau, Jonathan Reus 
11.06 / 11h: Workshop Anatomies of Intelligence. (Embodied) space and (Euclidean) distance / Joana Chicau, Jonathan Reus 
14.06 / 11h: Carn viva 1.2. workshop of corporal self-learnings 
14.06 / 18'30h: Pantalla parpella 1. Conference on tecnology and perception: "Digital perception and datadiversity / Alejandra López 
16.06 / 19h: Concert Retablo para un concierto monstruoso / Isabel Do Diego 
17.06 / 17h: Gentrifi-què Contraimaginaris Postpandèmics 2. Game on the political management of the pandemic  
18.06 / 18h: Pantalla parpella 2. After Glow Reality. Performance about tecnology and perception. c41582028 and Sau-Ching Wong 
21.06 / 11h: Carn viva 1.3. Workshop of corporal self-learnings 
28.06 / 11h: Carn viva 1.4. Workshop of corporal self-learnings 
28.06 / 18'30h: Pantalla parpella 3. Conversation on tecnology and perception / Jose Iglesias Gª-Arenal, Laura Arensburg 
29.06 / 18'30h: Screening Teatro Della Terra Alienata, with Amaia Sánchez-Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol 
12.07 / 19h: Dimarts de Vídeo: Wild diaries of extraction. CuPorn and PetroPorn / Lucía Egaña and Ánxela Louzao 
14.07 / 18h: Rare routes. The technology roadmap. Workshop about extractivist processes 
15.07 / 17h: Gentrifi-què Contraimaginaris Postpandèmics 3. Game on the political management of the pandemic 

Narrative itineraries by: 
From 09.06: Paula Bruna and Marta Gracia
From 09.06: Daphne Dragona and Jara Rocha
From 09.06: Joan Yago and Enric Puig
From 01.07: Paz Peña O.
From 08.07: Israel Rodríguez Giralt
From 15.07: Ian Alan Paul
From 22.07: Grup Contraimaginaris Postpandèmics

Saturdays at 12h: Mutant visits to the exhibition 

Artists:
Erich Berger
Uwe Brunner + Bettina Katja Lange + Joan Soler-Adillon
Joana Chicau + Jonathan Chaim Reus
Chanee Choi
Erik Contreras
Roderick Luis Coover + Adam Vidiksis + Nick Montfort
Derek Curry + Jennifer Gradecki
Sara Dean + Beth Ferguson + Marina Monsonís
Joelle Dietrick + Owen Mundy
Nikolas Gomes
Andy Gracie
Xuanyang Huang
Colin Ives
Shona Kitchen
Irma Marco
Lauren Lee McCarthy
Rosell Meseguer
Jane Chang Mi
Kasia Molga
Marina Núñez
S4RA
Robertina Šebjanič  + Sofia Crespo + Feileacan McCormick
Laura Splan
Nooroa Tapuni
Weidi Zhang

Narrative itineraries:
Paula Bruna and Marta Gracia
Daphne Dragona and Jara Rocha
Joan Yago and Enric Puig
Paz Peña O. 
Israel Rodríguez Giralt
Ian Alan Paul
Grupo Contraimaginarios Postpandémicos

Exhibition design:
Francesc Isern
Paula Font

A project curated by:
Marta Gracia
Jara Rocha
Enric Puig Punyet

Coorganised by:

With the collaboration of: