Desiring Architectures

Curators: Á//A (Álex Martín Rod./Alicia Navarro)
Coordination: Alicia Peña Guadamuro
Production: Andy Cobo

A queer festival, Desiring Architectures is derived from contemporary critique spatial practice between art and architecture, queer bodies, and their diverse relations with sex and desire. Inspired by the 1000 m2 of Desire exhibition (curated by Adélaïde de Caters and Rosa Ferré), Desiring Architectures aims to untangle the current relationships that dwell within queer architecture and buildings, alongside flamenco and Gitano (“Gypsy”/Roma) spaces, and their enormous intra-actions with southern and colonial cultures. The Festival will untangle an, as yet, unknown understanding of architecture under the radical frame of flamenco and queer politics; asking about the dark places hidden in the appealing triangle of architecture, desire and southern worlds: exploring the entangled flux between cruising, discotectures, love in darkness, flamenco canalla spaces, and new architectonic apparatus.

The festival is hosted in a space designed by Pol Esteve Castelló, titled Son más largas las calles de noche que de día (The streets are longer at night than day), which reflects the archaeology, affective and material networks of tourism on the Costa del Sol. Fragments of the history of architecture designed for leisure emerge from the sand from the beach revealing the infrastructures of an industry of desire sheltered by the murmur of the sea.  The installation is curated by Álex Martín Rod.

The patio, now a Verbenesco Giardini, was conceived by Enrique B. Lanzac with B+M+L architecture office, as a metaphor for all changes that dance, Andalusian feria, the effects and wit and playfulness (canalleo) that are produced in the margins of normative spaces. The Giardini accompanied different operative devices carried out for the artistic collective Artefacto Social (Social Artifact) on the worlds and stories in liminal zones of the city.

AADD is linked to the tenth-anniversary celebration of La Térmica. AADD has R&D&I project Sílfide (PGC2018-093710-A-I00) CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) scientific support and Colegio de Arquitectos of Málaga institutional support. 

Participants: Pol Esteve Castelló, María García Ruiz, Pedro G. Romero, Andrés Jaque, Álex Martín Rod., Iván L. Munuera, Alicia Navarro, Carmen Rocamora, Leonor Serrano Rivas, Eugenio Rivas+Artefacto Social y Enrique B. Lanzac & B+M+L.

Collaboration: Colegio de Arquitectos of Málaga, and R&D&I project Sílfide: Tras los pasos de la Sílfide. Una historia de la danza en España, 1836-1936 (PGC2018-093710-A-I00) CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Ministry of Science and Innvovation-State Research Agency- FEDER Fundus, EU, Diputación Provincial Archive.

Special Acknowledgement: Antonio Rodríguez, José Luis Cabrera, Idoia Murga Castro, Verónica Ruth Frías, Begoña Castillo, Martín Moniche, Pedro Rodríguez Gómez-Limón, Eva Ruiz Morillas, Carlos Salas Carrión, and Lidia García García.

Let’s open the door to Pornotopia!

Friday, May 6: Red Friday Market
6pm: Merienda en la pradera (Eugenio Rivas + Artefacto Social)
7:30pm: Son más largas las calles de noche que de día opening. Space oo3

Saturday, May 7: Lecture series
10:30am: Welcome
11am: Pedro G. Romero. “Lugar. Lugareño.”.
11:45am: Alicia Navarro: “Circle, Desire, Queerness…Marks and Diagnoses in Flamenco Spaces.”
12:30pm: Talk Pol Esteve + Álex Martín Rod on Son más largas las calles de noche que de día.
1:15pm: Roundtable with Leonor Serrano Rivas.
5pm: Iván L. Munuera: “Grounded Bodies, Flying Plasma: Liquid Regimes of Bodily Fluids.”
5:45pm: María García Ruiz: “Architectures of Inclinations. Nurturing Bodies, Gypsy Camps, and Fiestas Flamencas.”
6:30pm: Andrés Jaque:  “Transsarchitecture.”
7:15pm: Roundtable with Leonor Serrano Rivas.

All lectures will take place in the exhibition room. Mijas-oo3. (Ground floor)