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Kafka’s novels introduce us to creatures defined as “helpers”. They do not, however, appear to be in any state to help. They understand nothing, they have no “tackle”, they do nothing more than play childish, silly pranks, they are annoying and even at times brazen and lascivious. In aspect, they are so similar that they can only be distinguished by their names; they look like “serpents”. They are, however, observant, alert and easygoing; they have shining eyes and in contrast to their childish behaviour, their faces are those of adults “students, almost” with long, bushy beards. Someone, we do not know who, has assigned them to their charges and they are not easy to get rid of. In conclusion, we do not know who they are. Perhaps they have been sent by the enemy, something that would explain why they do nothing more than dog us and and spy on us. However, they seem to be angels, messengers ignorant of the content of the letters that they must deliver, but messengers whose smile, whose look, whose gait “seems to be a message”. Giorgio Agamben.
The physical space occupied by caS at Torneo 18/San Clemente is, to all intents and purposes, insufficient for what we understand art centre to be. To begin with, there is the symbolic dimension, the fact, for example, that it is located in Seville and that it aspires to depict the different present realities that the city evokes. Therefore, the knot/node metaphor, borrowed from the language of telematics, is perhaps that which is the most apt to define the situation of an artistic space in the city. It is, as it were, a principal node yet when all is said and done, it is just one more link, a single point in the wider web of places and links that the arts centre must weave across the city.
A recent academic document on the work concerning architecture and language for the Spanish Royal Academy (RAE) talked of an “openness towards the revision of the world of architecture, of the city, of town-planning and of their relationship with the immaterial elements of IT and telematics involved in the same city phenomenon”. The Seville Arts Centre (caS) also aspires to become a public space in the ambit of the media, the Internet, in the immaterial world of electromagnetic signals. Read the rest of this entry »
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