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Interferometer
Measurements and mediations of a slower space-time.
ABRASO ART COLLECTIVE
After a recent historical discovery where scientists documented the existence of gravitational waves that modify contemporary notions of space-time, Abraso, the Mobile Center for Intratropical Artistic Research and Affective Practices, decided to imagine a present in which time, distorted by the affectations of those gravitational waves, accelerates immeasurably.
Based on empirical, emotional, and experimental methodologies, we want to carry out a study to measure and resist, physically and affectively, this hurried time. For this purpose, Abraso's artissts have invented the project “Interferometer: measurements and mediations of a slower space-time”, a place to think and activate delaying strategies counteracting the present speed in which we inhabit. Intertwining reality, history, and science fiction, this proposal displays a collective learning device to invite different audiences to imagine ways of inhabiting our present, thus speculating leisurely on possible futures.
Through fictional exercises and critical reflections, this artwork presents a stage to confront the hegemonic notion of time, and its implications in a era determined by exploitation of resources, consume, and overproduction. In our current technocentric and hypercapitalist world, Abraso proposes a meeting space of slowness and lazyness for the relief of an existential eagerness that has been hastily consuming the space of our time.
Abraso is an artistic collective formed by Camilo Londoño Hernández and Juan Pablo Gavira Bedoya, two Colombian artists living in Germany.
Since 2022 they founded the Mobile Center for Intratropical Artistic Research and Affective Practices as a way to study the movements, commotions, relations, tensions, nostalgia, and fiction between the Global South, where we come from, and the Global North, where we reside (temporarily). From here (and there) we want to put in crisis the threads that move between the center and the geopolitical peripheries, exploring relations of scale from the dialogue with different disciplines. In this year and a half of practices, they have participated in shows and festivals in Germany, Argentina, and Colombia. Currently, they are preparing for their next residency in Belgium hosted by PARCE Art Initiative and granted by the Goethe Institut.
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PROGRAM
ABRASO ART COLLECTIVE
Location:
Parce Art Studio, Palinghuizen 78, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Dates:
Residency taking place from 24 February - 10 March 2025
Art studio open on thursdays to sundays from 9 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Other days on appointment.
Workshop by Abraso
8 March 2025 from 2-5 p.m.
Themes:
-Art meets science to challenge the acceleration of time in contemporary life. Through experimental and artistic practices, ABRASO invites you to slow down, reflect, and reimagine the rhythms of the present.
-Art, Action & Play ! Spin the Bottle Edition. From Fast to Slow Time, North to South. Exploring gravity, Space, Climate, Law and Litigation, Roles in Motion, and Collective.
Snacks and drinks will be provided during this event