EVENT "WORKS ABUNDANCIES" AT 99 CANAL (NEW YORK) WITH ANDRÉ MAGAÑA, LOIS ELAINE GRIFFITH, COCO KLOCKNER, ESTHER KONDO HELLER AND KAUR ALIA AHMED09.04.23."Works Abundancies" brings together four poetic voices and an artwork for a brief duration. This temporary arrangement, positioned somewhere between the eventness of stages and exhibition displays, microphones and plinths, activates specific structures of expression, interpretation, and emotion. PROGRAM "STRESS AND JEST" AT JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (NEW YORK) WITH BARNETT COHEN, MARCEL ALCALÁ, NIC KAY, BRIANNA ROSE BROOKS, MILTON GARCÍA NINJA AND LUNA LUIS ORTIZ12.11.24.This public program seeks to examine how spectacle, violence and entertainment are intertwined, placing particular emphasis on how tragicomedy, discorrelation or "the cartoonish" can expose structural dynamics as well as create spaces for renewal. These topics will be addressed from different artistic and literary disciplines, including performances, poetry readings, talks and a workshop. PERLA ZUÑIGA: MOUSETRAPS, TINKER BELL AND HOLES10.07.24.Leto Ybarra examines the work of the Spanish artist, poet and DJ. In her solo show "Cucú" (Cordova, Barcelona) Perla Zuñiga drills the exhibition space and creates small theatrical containers in which she spatializes moments and logics of desire, reflects on illness and mocks visitor’s urge of possession as she choreographs their movements through space. "PROMPT CORNER II" W/ NICHOLAS GRAFIA, SHANZHAI LYRIC AND UTAISSA AT LA CASA ENCENDIDA (MADRID)24.02.24.Departing from the work of Cuban playwright María Irene Fornes, in this event, poetic experimentation approaches queer theater and its use of props, music and spoken word. "ESCALATION" PERFORMANCES W/ ELLIOT REED, NAT RAHA AND ANTO LÓPEZ ESPINOSA AT CONDE DUQUE (MADRID)19.12.23.A performance and poetic event in which the artists are interested in amplifying the sensorial and immediate and in proposing exercises in amateur geography and sociology. EXHIBITION "TRIED AND TRUE" WITH CARMELA GARCÍA, RENÉE GREEN, JAMES STURKEY AND GRAY WIELEBINSKI18.11.23.The artists in this exhibition approach documentation and testimony in specific locations that demand forms of adjustment, shielding and fragmenting. For this purpose, they consider the role that settings, corporality and inadequacy play within the various forms of narrating and informing that structure our experiences and political environments. EXHIBITION "YOU 3.2 MEN PLAY TOO MUCH" BY RAYNES BIRKBECK30.09.23.As if holding a spider’s web, artist, poet and self-taught writer Raynes Birkbeck sustains in his drawings seemingly impossible links that bring to the surface the constant feedback between different social and temporal spheres. Opening event with readings by Ebun Sodipo, Juan de Salas and Martyn Reyes. EXHIBITION "GLIDE" WITH CRUEL NURSE (YVES B.GOLDEN, NAT MARCUS AND STEPHEN HILL) AND JOVENDELAPERLA AT SYSTEMA (MARSEILLE)01.09.23.a selection of pieces that use poetry to think of forms of sociability bringing to mind the spatialisation of sickness, the hapticality of the sick body and questions about the individualistic approach to health and sanity. Completing the exhibition programme, JOVENDELAPERLA and BERENICE present a new performance. EXHIBITION "CREATING ITS OWN OCCASIONS AS A STAGE DOES" WITH DOUGLAS KEARNEY, NIKITA GALE, PARK MCARTHUR, VIJAY MASHARANI AND HARMONY HOLIDAY13.05.23.This show is interested in thinking spaces of meaning production and action (a theater, a stage, a spotlight, but also a dock, a curb or a white page) complicating theater’s vernacular languages as a tentative formula to produce new political and social settings, imaginaries and plots. SPROCKETED SYLLABUS13.04.23.The study group analyzes art practices that employ non-signification and formal strategies of vanishing, draining and emptying. Invited guests: Rizvana Bradley and Luce deLire. EXHIBITION "LANDSCAPE HOT MIC" WITH JESSE CHUN, JJJJJEROME ELLIS, ALBERTO VALLEJO AND BEATRIZ ORTEGA BOTAS, NOUR MOBARAK, SHAUN MOTSI, K.R.M. MOONEY AND ÁLVARO DEL FRESNO.18.02.23.The hot mic brings to the forefront that which is not part of restrained speech, the environment and the apparent error. It alludes to the capacity to emit and preserve the voice; as well as to the phonetic dimension of language, the contingencies it entails, its “translation” into written text and the rematerialization of the visual through sound. "PROMPT CORNER 2023" W/ GEO WYETH (MUCK STUDIES DEPT) + AURÉLIEN POTIER (AURILIAN) + OKCANDICE AT LA CASA ENCENDIDA (MADRID)11.02.23.The event features performances and concerts by Geo Wyeth (with Muck Studies Dept.), Aurélien Potier and okcandice. They all share an interest in the sources of language and the patterns of behaviour that are kept hidden –in that which is forgotten and ends up gathering dust in the corners– and yet are capable of structuring and dominating actions and emotions. LA ALBA: N.H. PRITCHARD + IMA-ABASI OKON + K.R.M. MOONEY + NAT RAHA15.12.22.LA ALBA's contributions draw from the poems of N.H. Pritchard to employ abstraction and elements of concrete and sound poetry: extreme typographical dilation, the splicing of words, unconventional spacing and punctuation. EXHIBITION AND POETRY "WAYFINDING": ALEX TURGEON, DERICA SHIELDS AND S*AN D. HENRY SMITH25.11.22.taking writing and language as their point of departure, the works of Alex Turgeon, Derica Shields and S*an D. Henry-Smith share an effort to saturate the constrained literality and spatiality of architecture, the archive and the administration of social life. IT WILL CANCEL OUT THE NOISE. KIMBERLY ALIDIO + JESSE CHUN28.10.22.an approach to the institutionalization of speech and the homogenization of language in relation to colonial dynamics, preservation and bureaucracy. POETRY READINGS WITH TAREK LAKHRISSI, BILLY MORGAN AND OLIVIA DOUGLASS (NOGUERAS BLANCHARD, MADRID)08.09.22.Nogueras Blanchard gallery invites Juf to activate Joan Brossa’s work with an event that takes the artist’s expanded conception of the poetic act as a starting point. COUNTS WOULD NOT ACKNOWLEDGE. MILLIE WILSON+NAYARE SOLEDAD+FRANCESC RUIZ+CHE GOSSETT09.05.22.an invitation to work on issues related to the archive’s epistemological tools, fabulatory components, realist exigencies and categories of subjecthood and fact. POETRY AND PERFORMANCES "RING TRUE" AT GASWORKS (LONDON)25.02.21.Reading and performances by S*an D. Henry-Smith, Nisha Ramayya, JOVENDELAPERLA, BERENICE and Leto Ybarra. WHAT HAPPENS TO ME IN SOME ARCHITECTURES. BENJAMIN KRUSLING+CLAUDIA PAGÈS+KASHIF SHARMA-PATEL+RACHEL LEVITSKY+PALOMA CHEN03.03.22.exploring questions of spatiality and its grammars, circulation, representation and visibility in public and private spaces. WORKSHOP - POETS THEATRE IN MADRID: NARRATION, QUEER EXPRESSION AND SPANISH VENTRILOQUISM25.01.22.workshop at Sala de Arte Joven Madrid (Licra) 12/11/2021 DON'T BELIEVE THE DAY. PEPE ESPALIÚ+BRI WILLIAMS+GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUÉ17.01.22.this pdf approaches the temporality of trauma and the possibilities of survival and self-sustenance through pleasure, undisclosed experiences and faith in contexts of crisis and violence. A LOSS OF TIME? ABBAS ZAHEDI+ALBERTO VALLEJO14.10.21.for the third piece of the ongoing series of online works Abbas Zahedi and Alberto Vallejo use abstract languages, protocols, methodologies and functions that come from watchmaking, philosophy and chess to reflect on personal and situated experiences and expressions of time and movement. FEATHER THE BALANCE. RENEE GLADMAN+NISHA RAMAYYA26.05.21.second collaborative piece of an ongoing series of online works using poetry, textuality and visuality, that creates a sort of rackety bridge between Renee Gladman's and Nisha Ramayya's work. TEMPO AWASH. AURELIA GUO+P. STAFF+RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA12.05.21.an ongoing series of online works using poetry, textuality and visuality to navigate the limits and leeway of processes of signification. SHOPForthcoming