Oleadas de gente alrededor de la mesa
Centre de Lectura•May 22, 2026 — Jun 27, 2026
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Much of public discourse -from the most mundane and popular forms to parliamentary debate- is characterised by a disruption of the inherent disposition of words. To take the floor has become an exercise in bending words to fit a predetermined discursive agenda, one that entails their deformation, exhaustion, and eventual burnout. It seems to me that what you are proposing, Noela, is to think about conversation not at the moment it emerges, but from an earlier point in time: before those who speak arrive and gather around the table. As though there were a conversation before the conversation itself, before anyone takes the floor.
Those who take the floor do not arrive at the place of conversation entirely on their own. Someone opens the door for them, takes their coat, looks after them. In short: someone lets them in, welcomes them, and offers them hospitality. This is the position in which most of the works presented here place us: they are made from objects designed to receive, to fit…
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Oleadas de gente alrededor de la mesa
Centre de Lectura•May 22, 2026 — Jun 27, 2026
Press Release
Much of public discourse -from the most mundane and popular forms to parliamentary debate- is characterised by a disruption of the inherent disposition of words. To take the floor has become an exercise in bending words to fit a predetermined discursive agenda, one that entails their deformation, exhaustion, and eventual burnout. It seems to me that what you are proposing, Noela, is to think about conversation not at the moment it emerges, but from an earlier point in time: before those who speak arrive and gather around the table. As though there were a conversation before the conversation itself, before anyone takes the floor.
Those who take the floor do not arrive at the place of conversation entirely on their own. Someone opens the door for them, takes their coat, looks after them. In short: someone lets them in, welcomes them, and offers them hospitality. This is the position in which most of the works presented here place us: they are made from objects designed to receive, to fit…
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