Cortés, Irene

Una persona pot optar per canviar el seu estil de vida d’excessos. Irònicament, aquest procés implica la producció bruta d’objectes d’art , on l’artista ha d’enfrontar el seus desitjos materialistes. Per fer això, Irene va començar la seva investigació amb una sèrie d’indicadors per al seguiment del propi consum.

Irene Cortés ha començat el seu estudi d’un nou llenguatge de la sostenibilitat contribuint a la construcció d’una cultura amb un model alternatiu de vida i una nova relació amb el nostre medi ambient, la protecció que en cada gest: amb lleialtat i l’amor.

Thinking Utopia – Creating Sustainable Culture

“UTOPIA IS A MATTER OF URGENCY, WE ARE FORCED TO IMAGINE IT” Slavoj Žižek

It is with dire urgency that we investigate, experiment and live with sustainability if we are to adapt to the dangerous climate patterns that human interventions have woven. Cloaked in consumption, we are shielded from our social responsibility towards our future generations . Complicit, apathetic and motivated by greed, we refuse to live differently. We refuse to sacrifice the joys of excess ! But there are signs all around us, taking alarming forms. (Our polluted Gulf coast, a most recent siren) .

Though these images are clear, real and are proliferated, we are stubborn. Or perhaps it is that we are not moved. Our tragedy is that we are not brave enough to face the humiliation of being powerless to our desire for material wealth. That we are not able to control the influence of a cultural ideology that tempts us to live beyond our means so that capital may grow at the expense of our collective physical survival is so shocking, that we have become numb and dumb. In this confusion we face a tremendous amount of work. We must alter our patterns and make personal commitments, applying a steel will to change paradigms of comfort and desire so that we may transform and live with the knowledge that we have made an apocalypse for our children.

So where is the hope? 

It is in the fabrication of an impossible ideal of environmental harmony that we will develop our desires to be sustainable. And it is in our capacity to become less-selfish and understand ‘future’ as not being within our grasp, but in the lives of generations to come. It is being close to death that we will be forced to imagine how things could be better.

And this is important because Utopia is waiting.

As a response to modernisms notion of a singular materialist ‘progressive future’, developed as a cultural ideology organized by the linguisitic system of “the big Other”(Lacan), what is needed is a replacement ideology – a new desire!

Los niños

This is a short excerpt of the experimental movie “Nowhere Here Now” featuring youth from Artes, Catalunya. These are children who have landed.

This was constructed using a production method that invests communities into the set design of a movie- transforming permanent sets that are re-purposed after the movie has been made.

CAST
Carla Escalé Rienda
Julià Escalé Rienda
Judit Bosch Solegibert
Marta Fernandez Codina
Jordi Fígols Fernandez
Blanca Rodriguez Magem
Joan Rodriquez Magem
Laura Golobardes Vilarasau
Irene Vendrell Oduber