Manglar

Beca Barcelona CREA - Practicable

novembre 2024

MANGLAR

Smell, tangle, mud, crossroads. The manglar -mangrove- is the transition zone between marine and terrestrial biomes, the mutual visit between the forms and sensitivities of water and land. It fills and empties every day, pneuma of the tides (lunar chronotopy), balance. Sea animals come daily to copulate, to lay their eggs, to care for their young, to inhabit its warmth and libidinal force.

Manglar is also a collective taught by a group of 7 people, who propose experimental encounters around the concept of situated sciences. By situated sciences they mean practices of recognition and enchantment with the worlds that assume and deepen the deuniversalisation of the scientific gesture. That is to say, that include the body of the scientist in the experience, as a position and place, that create methods of relating to more-than-human intentions, and that activate the umbilical relationship between fiction, performativity and science.

The collective’s practices include diverse cultures and situations of contagion, multi-species oracles, construction of situated tools, activation of the committee of therolinguistic sciences and others.