A Permanent Rehearsal

Usually, when we walk through an exhibition, sight and intellect leave the body in a secondary place. It is also frequent that the visit predisposes us to concentration, as if an attentive, straightline focus were needed to dig toward depth.

In contrast, A Permanent Rehearsal is a program of performative mediation within the exhibition Joan Miró. Circles that invites us to restore an involvement of the body in the approach to the exhibition and to shift from tunnelvision attention toward peripheral attention or even distraction.

The proposal includes three elements: a stage artifact designed by La cuarta piel; sound pieces installed around it; and occasional performances.

The stage artifact consists of a circular platform and bleachers. Usually, bleachers direct the gaze toward a center where the event takes place. However, these bleachers are fragmented and designed to do the opposite: to open up lateral modes of perception that are attentive to the minor or to what might otherwise go unnoticed.

The sound pieces located in this structure have been conceived specifically for the space by artists from the fields of choreography, stage arts, and performance, such as Paz Rojo or Veza Fernández.

Finally, A Permanent Rehearsal will also include performances or one-off site-specific events.

The positions of the bleachers and the platform, as well as the sound piece, will change throughout the duration of the exhibition. This perpetual movement connects with the physicality of Miró's creative processes; with the dynamics of Sert's architecture; and with the orbital choreographies included in the "Cercle" folder that gives the exhibition its title. However, A Permanent Rehearsal, circles do not close. It is a proposal that speaks of the pleasure of deferred solving; the pleasure of trying.

A permanent rehearsal is curated by Fondo (Carolina Campos, Fernando Gandasegui, Sara Manubens and Lautaro Reyes) based on a scenic artifact created in collaboration with La Cuarta Piel.
Fondo is an artist platform and a research context in the performing arts that experiments with how to welcome more bodies, open up to new stories, and continue questioning scenic hegemonies.
La Cuarta Piel is a collective that explores the intersections between design, research and mediation. Their projects delve into the political and ecological relationships of the environments in which they operate in order to foster collective and speculative processes.