PROTOTYPES OF INSTITUTING DESIRESanta Mónica to Sismógrafo

Agitación Diska, Antoni Hervàs, Assamblea Utopia Rambles, Augustin Ortiz, Giulia Grumi, Joana Moll, LEVE Project, Mariona Moncunill, Sindihogar

Curated by Clara Laguillo

Prototypes of Instituting Desire is an archival-exhibition that brings to Sismógrafo a selection of experimental practices focused on emerging forms of institutionality, embracing the relational, the collective, and the performative as premises for re-signifying cultural spaces.This proposal is part of a curatorial project that has been underway since 2021 at the Santa Mónica Art Center in Barcelona, and which, on this occasion, brings together projects developed during that period under different thematic and methodological frameworks. The exhibition features works by artists such as Joana Moll, Antoni Hervàs, Sofía Montenegro, Agustín Ortiz, Giulia Grumi, Mariona Moncunill, Marina Monsonís, Beth Ferguson, and Sara Dean, as well as collectives like Sindihogar, Agitación Diska, and the Assembly of Artists from Utopía Ramblas — a group formed by 44 artists specifically for an exhibition cycle and dissolved immediately after the show ended. The exhibition seeks to approach the question of what an art center can become, in a context where cultural forms and their spaces of articulation are fragmented and in constant flux — whether due to hybrid experiences with virtual worlds or the continuous use of tools for creating and disseminating images.