What Hath1 God and Covid-19 Wrought
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2020
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Brumaria
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Linarejos Moreno. (2020). Título del capítulo. En L. Alonso Atienza, L. de La Colina Tejada, J. Larrañaga Altuna, D. Lupión, & J. E. Mateo (Eds.), Confinad+s. Arte y Tecnosfera#2 (pp. 185–201). Brumaria.
Abstract
«Los telegramas llegaron a ser nuestro único recurso […] Seres ligados por la inteligencia, por el corazón o por la carne fueron reducidos a buscar los signos de esta antigua comunión en las mayúsculas de un despacho de diez palabras». Partiendo de esta reflexión de La peste (Camus, 1947), el capítulo de la artista Linarejos Moreno analiza la evolución de los procesos participativos de la exposición STOP VUELVO PRONTO STOP (2019–2020) y de los sistemas de comunicación sobre los que esta reflexionaba, al verse interrumpida por la pandemia de la COVID-19. El proyecto, inicialmente basado en la recopilación de telegramas ciudadanos y su inscripción en código Morse, trasladó, tras la declaración del estado de excepción, la participación ciudadana al espacio digital mediante la recopilación de los mensajes y memes que se difundieron de forma masiva durante la pandemia. Esta mutación permitió problematizar no solo la transformación tecnológica de los dispositivos de mensajería, sino también las condiciones de producción, circulación y credibilidad de los contenidos comunicativos en un contexto de aislamiento extremo.
Este capítulo forma parte del volumen Confinados+. Arte y Tecnosfera II, que aborda cómo la pandemia de la COVID-19 ha expuesto con especial crudeza los efectos de un sistema que reduce la vida —y, con ella, el mundo— a la condición de mercancía. La crisis sanitaria ha conmocionado la experiencia, la conciencia y la percepción de la realidad, atravesando las profundas transformaciones de la tecnosfera con nuevas formas de temor, incertidumbre y vulnerabilidad. Los sucesivos confinamientos han revelado de manera abrupta la obscenidad de un mundo radicalmente desigual y una vida crecientemente precarizada, así como nuestra condición de habitantes de un universo fragmentado y frágil. El libro analiza cómo las prácticas artísticas desarrolladas en contextos de confinamiento perciben esta catástrofe global, señalan las disrupciones que afectan a todos los ámbitos de la vida y activan estrategias cognitivas y dispositivos reflexivos desde distintos campos creativos, poniendo de manifiesto las tensiones y paradojas que acompañan este proceso de recomposición de lo sensible y de interrogación de lo normalizado.
“The telegrams became our only resource […] Beings bound by intelligence, by the heart, or by the flesh were reduced to seeking the signs of this ancient communion in the capital letters of a ten-word dispatch.” Building on this reflection from The Plague (Camus, 1947), the chapter by the artist and researcher Linarejos Moreno analyzes the evolution of the participatory processes of the exhibition STOP VUELVO PRONTO STOP (2019–2020) and the communication systems it explored, which were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, initially based on the collection of citizen telegrams and their collective inscription in Morse code, shifted, following the declaration of the state of emergency, to digital participation through the compilation of messages and memes that were widely circulated during the pandemic. This transformation allowed for a critical examination not only of the technological evolution of messaging devices, but also of the conditions of production, circulation, and credibility of communicative content in a context of extreme isolation. This chapter is part of the volume Confinados+. Arte y Tecnosfera II, which addresses how the COVID-19 pandemic has starkly exposed the effects of a system that reduces life—and therefore the world—to the status of commodity. The health crisis has profoundly impacted experience, consciousness, and perception of reality, intersecting with the deep transformations of the technosphere and producing new forms of fear, uncertainty, and vulnerability. Successive lockdowns have revealed the stark inequities of the world and the precariousness of life, exposing our condition as inhabitants of a fragmented and fragile universe. The book examines how artistic practices developed under confinement perceive this global catastrophe, highlight the disruptions affecting all areas of life, and activate cognitive strategies and reflective devices across creative fields, revealing the tensions and paradoxes inherent in the ongoing process of reconfiguring the sensible and questioning normalized ways of being.
“The telegrams became our only resource […] Beings bound by intelligence, by the heart, or by the flesh were reduced to seeking the signs of this ancient communion in the capital letters of a ten-word dispatch.” Building on this reflection from The Plague (Camus, 1947), the chapter by the artist and researcher Linarejos Moreno analyzes the evolution of the participatory processes of the exhibition STOP VUELVO PRONTO STOP (2019–2020) and the communication systems it explored, which were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, initially based on the collection of citizen telegrams and their collective inscription in Morse code, shifted, following the declaration of the state of emergency, to digital participation through the compilation of messages and memes that were widely circulated during the pandemic. This transformation allowed for a critical examination not only of the technological evolution of messaging devices, but also of the conditions of production, circulation, and credibility of communicative content in a context of extreme isolation. This chapter is part of the volume Confinados+. Arte y Tecnosfera II, which addresses how the COVID-19 pandemic has starkly exposed the effects of a system that reduces life—and therefore the world—to the status of commodity. The health crisis has profoundly impacted experience, consciousness, and perception of reality, intersecting with the deep transformations of the technosphere and producing new forms of fear, uncertainty, and vulnerability. Successive lockdowns have revealed the stark inequities of the world and the precariousness of life, exposing our condition as inhabitants of a fragmented and fragile universe. The book examines how artistic practices developed under confinement perceive this global catastrophe, highlight the disruptions affecting all areas of life, and activate cognitive strategies and reflective devices across creative fields, revealing the tensions and paradoxes inherent in the ongoing process of reconfiguring the sensible and questioning normalized ways of being.










