"Whispers, Hubbub and Paradoxes. Attempts for a Politics of Enunciation" at Santa Mònica

Whispers, Noise, and Paradoxes. Attempts towards a politics of enunciation gives continuity to a series of conversations from the contexts in which we live, regarding the ways in which we inhabit the paradoxes of enunciation and representation.

Artists, writers, collaborating agents, spaces of activism and critical thinking, as well as the ecosystem of Santa Mònica, come together to interpret texts and orality, review existing works, and stress dominant narratives by sharing ways of working and networks of complicity. The project gives rise to a certain punctuated polyphony?sustained among many, always incomplete?pierced by the force of the questions and stories that can mobilize us today.
Therefore, we gather a collectivity where artistic practices, editorial methodologies, public activities, and working groups oriented towards the materiality of utterances converge. In their significant exchange, these areas bring together imaginaries, experiences, and knowledge to challenge the feeling of exhaustion or supposed impossibility.

The exhibition

Comprising works ranging from graphic to performance, through audiovisual, textile, genealogies, and installation, the exhibition groups together artists who have been sustaining these conversations for some time.
It includes a set of works that, for the most part, are not newly produced, in order to prioritize an ecology of gestures and materials that seeks to distance itself from the spectacularization of what is new and to allow for long forms of distribution for existing artistic productions.
It also proposes that the works, understood as agents, hold a political biography, a vital trajectory that sometimes exceeds the curatorial description or foundational explanation of the artists.

The publications

As part of the reflections encompassed by the project, the need arises to generate an Interpretation/Translation Group. Many of the references, readings, and fundamental materials for the dialogue on representation have been translated into dominant languages. Thus, the Interpretation/Translation Group enables the ongoing exchange and circulation of diverse knowledge, in languages such as Arabic, Filipino (Baybayin, Tagalog), Amazigh, and Portuguese. This exercise reactivates an epistemological exchange between the global Souths?territorial and conceptual?that has always been present and is part of the genealogies invisibilized in the global North.
The results of the group's work will be collected in Whispers, Noise, and Paradoxes. Attempts towards a politics of enunciation, the first of the two publications we have envisioned for this project, which will include the interpreted/translated texts, as well as visual materials from the exhibition.

The second publication, Prologues Out of Sync (1848-2048), embraces a speculative gesture. Thinking about how our enunciative positions have been historically recovered and reinterpreted, we have proposed a game to imagine what could be today's possible prologues to the Communist Manifesto. We are interested in removing the Manifesto from its condition as a relic or fetish, and exploring the power it has had as an emancipatory tool for many contexts. In a time characterized by a lack of horizons, we can think of fictional leaps that revitalize us and give continuity to significant questions.

Reflecting (imagining) among all

Another central aspect of the project is its public program, which brings together workshops, performances, and discussions with different agents who are activating and thinking through this framework of reflections. The public program, in collaboration with the unions of Les Mòniques and research groups from the center, is conceived as another opportunity for opening up to the audience, to offer the possibility of a relational space for discussing doubts and ideas that may arise during the entire work process.

It can be visited free of charge from Tuesday to Sunday and holidays from 11 am to 8:30 pm.