Equipo re is currently embarked on identifying, compiling and analysing the aesthetical practices, representations, collective experiences and performative tactics that have determined the AIDS politics, for the first time, from a non-Anglo-American perspective. The end purpose of the initiative is to implement a "counter-archive" or Anarchive of AIDS politics. It is does not merely involve a new approach to the relationship between "art and AIDS" - in the sense of "art inspired by the disease"-, but rather to map the type of displacements, structural breakthroughs and failures that emerge in the field of cultural production from AIDS.
Equipo re's intervention in "Marginalia" has consisted of associating to this process the Pepe Espaliú document collection available at Arteleku and, in particular, the set of materials relating to The Carrying Society (1992-1998). Founded by a group of participants from the workshop run by Espaliú at Arteleku, The Carrying Society implemented different projects on art and the public sphere whose impact remains scattered and which Equipo re now plans to recover. Equipo re's participation in "Marginalia" is inconclusive in nature and the final form that the "Anarchivo sida" may take will depend on the work carried out during the coming stages of the project.
Therefore, the 2012-2013 two-year period is being dedicated to compiling, producing and the critical distilling of the materials that make up the core of the archive, by means of different production and research actions in specific work frameworks, such as the "Políticas del cuerpo*" [Body Politics] initiatives that have already been held in different locations of Chile; the research residency program at the Reina Sofía Museum that is currently underway; the UNIA – arteypensamiento program (Seville), which is forthcoming; and the PAGADI system, the dss2016eu trans-disciplinary platform to foster art, creation and contemporary thought, which the Equipo re has joined.
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