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#7
D(E)UDAS: An Atlas of Commoning

Alicia Agustín

Oct, 2022

Design:

Alicia Agustín


Institutional Support:

Graham Fundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts


The exhibition is presented by Alicia Agustín, in the context of the exhibition #AtlasOfCommoning: curated by ARCH+ and Stefan Gruber, sponsored by IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), which arrives at the Museo de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires from October to December of 2022, and as part of the ongoing activities of the #festiatlascomun.

In this presentation, the performative artist Alicia Agustín confronts the debt conception, facing the issue that prevents the act of commoning; the debt crisis and the morality imposed by the debt economy, which ultimately leads to individualization and the opposite of a solidarity-based support system.

The Gropius Chair (DAAD, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires) is in charge of turning the discussion topics brought by the Atlas of Commoning to the difference and contemporary complexity of the territory where the exhibition lands from situated thinking.


Alicia Agustín studied acting in Berlin and received training from Fae Simpson at the Michael Howard Studio in New York.
As a performer, she has been featured, among others, in Tracey Rose’s installation "The world is not fair", which was part of the Weltausstellung 2012, a production from HAU and Raumlabor Berlin. Her collaborations have included work with the Russian collective Chto Delat? in the framework of Former West at the HKW Berlin and the International Summer Festival at Kampnagel, Hamburg.
Agustín co-created the Talking Straight Collective, which was founded with the "Talking Straight Festival" at the Maxim Gorki Theatre’s Studio Я at the beginning of 2014. Since then, many pieces have been created under collective authorship, mostly immersive simulations that claim the normative status quo to be a catastrophe. In 2018, she received the Work and Research Grant (Arbeits- und Recherche Stipendium) by the Berliner Senat for Culture and Europe. The video work "Die Sprache der Spekulation" (The Language of Speculation) was her first collaboration with the collective Guerilla Architects. This was shown within the exhibition "1989-2019: Politik des Raums im Neuen Berlin" at n.b.k. Berlin and curated by ARCH +.