A Machine Desires... Alhóndiga, Bilbao

'A Machine Desires Instructions as a Garden Desires Discipline'

(pictures by Jaime Gartzia)

'A Machine Desires Instructions as a Garden Desires Discipline' analyses the internal colonization processes that historically coincide with the transition to capitalism and the formation of modern thought and politics as well as the gradual establishment of nation-states which implied the imposition of homogenizing strategies over several peoples. The social, economic, political and cultural process referred to here are not isolated, but interwoven into an intricate fabric, however incomplete and unstable. The works brought together in this project try to blur the Platonic dualism between the material and abstract worlds, appropriated by Christianity (body and soul), then secularized in modern thought (body and reason), and widely redistributed in social classifications.

‘A Machine Desires Instructions as a Garden Desires Discipline' is the MARCO/Frac Lorraine Award 2012 for Young Curators winning proposal. The exhibition, curated by Catalina Lozano, has been produced by MARCO (Vigo, Spain) and the Frac Lorraine (Metz, France). Una máquina desea instrucciones como un jardín desea disciplina'