In the second session of the LOOP Talks 2020 program, the Berlin-based Spanish curator Sonia Fernández Pan proposes a space for reflection that invites us to rethink, in times of pandemic, our relationship with the environment and alternative, more inclusive ways of co-existence between beings.
“To what extent is human ethics compatible with non-human ethics? What tools, not just narratives, do we have in mind to circumvent human exceptionalism? Why is it less difficult for us to imagine the end of the world than the end of the capitalist system? With this meeting I do not intend–and I cannot–answer these and many other questions, but perhaps it is possible to point out directions and draw deviations from the political dimension of imagination and from conversation as a tool capable of collectivizing individual experiences.”
This session will be held in Spanish.
Sonia Fernández Pan es curadora (in)dependiente, escritora e investigadora. Autora de esnorquel desde 2011, un proyecto personal en forma de archivo on-line con podcasts, textos y conversaciones escritas, donde poner en práctica la necesidad -y el deseo- de pensar con otros. Recientemente, ha comisariado las exposiciones As if we could scrape the color of the iris and still see (Twin Gallery, Madrid, 2018), CHRONO-MATTER Objects are closer than they appear (Galería Efremidis, Berlín, 2019) y los proyectos curatoriales anuales The more we know about them, the stranger they become (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona 2017) and Mirror becomes a razor when it’s broken (CentroCentro, Madrid, 2018-19). Desde 2018 es co-curadora de You Got To Get In To Get Out (La Casa Encendida Madrid), una investigación sobre la experiencia de la música techno desde una perspectiva experiencial, discursivo-visceral, política y material. Desde el inicio de la pandemia es la anfitriona de la serie de podcasts Feminism Under Corona para el Institut Kunst (Basilea) y Corona Under the Ocean para TBA21Academy & Institute Kunst. Vive y trabaja en Berlín.