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Screening of the essay “Cuerpos anclados, plasma volador: El regime líquido de los fluidos corporales”
(Grounded Bodies, Flying Plasma: The Liquid Regime of Bodily Fluids) by Ivan López Munuera. Bodies are permeable and participate in a continuous exchange of fluids. These fluids circulate, merging desires and destinies, influencing health, and constructing an often unmanifested hydro-community. "Grounded Bodies, Flying Plasma" explores the history of the blood trade and transfusion and its relationship to imperialism and the AIDS crisis.
Dates and times
Saturday, November 9, 6:45pm to 7:15pm
Address
Auditorium Eduardo Ocón, Paseo de España, Málaga
The film challenges the idea of bodies as hermetic, autonomous entities and proposes their environmental reconfiguration as interconnected, interdependent entities. Using documentary evidence and new audiovisual materials, the film analyzes the Hemo-Caribbean enterprise and its hemo-geography of laboratories, hospitals and other architectures that filter and define bodies. Their spatial regimes are designed to circulate plasma, but not the human bodies that contain it.
Iván López Munuera
He is a New York-based researcher, critic and curator working at the intersection of culture, technology, politics and bodily practices. His research has been sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. In 2020, he received the prestigious Harold W. Dodds Fellowship from Princeton University. He has presented his work at international conferences and published in magazines such as The Journal of Architecture and Log. Munuera has organized international exhibitions, including the Venice Architecture Biennales 2021 and 2023.
©Álvaro García
