How do production and performance logics affect people? Is there a way to scape the fugacity of university life?
Thanks to these questions, Álvaro Caboalles (artistic contributor) and Henar Rodríguez (MIRCo member) have created the installation Minor Territories. Childhood, art and community in the sensitive building of the campus (Territorios Menores. Infancia, arte y comunidad en la construcción sensible del campus). Visits are open in the Exhibition Room at UAM’s Plaza Mayor, until next February 13th.
This experience promotes a reflection on the pace of life through a piece that surprises for its complexity: a Big Collective Scarf, that tries to symbolize the weight of the living, the artisan, the collective and the communitarian. This scarf was born first in individual workshops but has become this powerful symbol. Besides, this exhibition also includes videos in loop, sound landscapes and micro stories that use the strength of the day-to-day things: the gesture of the hand that knits, the young man who asks, walking without anywhere to go…
We invite you to visit this exhibition and to reflect on its meaning and implications.
This exhibition has been possible thanks to the funding provided by the UAM itself, and to the research group Contemporary Childhood, also based at UAM.
