The results of a workshop I held on something happening again, for 2nd year students of the Master Artistic Productions and Research of the University of Barcelona, invited by Eloi Puig and Alicia Vela. March 2017.

The workshop departs from the idea of reenactment as an approach to nostalgia and the imagination of the future, together with its ideological implications in contemporary society. It is focused on the event as an artistic format, applying a turning point not only spatial and temporal but also bodily and affective. These two sessions will explore the performative capacities of re-making, re-doing and 'happening again', using references from the happenings of the 60s and 70s. The workshop opens a critical reaction to a nostalgic vision of the historical which is staged, theatrical and spectacular, reflecting of the nature of something happening again.

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From the LP edition The Drowned Giant by Anna Moreno, 2017
Audio edit by Sergi Botella

The Drowned Giant

Voice-over of the video installation BILLENNIUM by Anna Moreno.
Text by Sara Pape.
Billennium is the result of an investigation into the communal and modular architecture that emerged from the studio of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in the 1970s, combined with the literature of sci-fi writer J.G. Ballard. In 1962, Ballard wrote Billennium, a story that describes the claustrophobia and paralysis of an overcrowded world. Billennium departs from the symbol of the bee as a floating signifier and relocates in the discontinuous line between utopia and dystopia in architecture, a balancing exercise that is repeated in the entire installation at a structural level. Adding to Ballard's scenario, Moreno speculates on a post-apocalyptic future in which honey, rather than gold or petrol, would act as the main value marker.

BILLENNIUM Scenario 1

Voice over from the installation BILLENNIUM by Anna Moreno.
Text by Lykle de Vries.

Billennium is the result of an investigation into the communal and modular architecture that emerged from the studio of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in the 1970s, combined with the literature of sci-fi writer J.G. Ballard. In 1962, Ballard wrote Billennium, a story that describes the claustrophobia and paralysis of an overcrowded world. Billennium departs from the symbol of the bee as a floating signifier and relocates in the discontinuous line between utopia and dystopia in architecture, a balancing exercise that is repeated in the entire installation at a structural level. Adding to Ballard's scenario, Moreno speculates on a post-apocalyptic future in which honey, rather than gold or petrol, would act as the main value marker.

BILLENNIUM Scenario 2

From the installation BILLENNIUM by Anna Moreno.
Vaporwave music by Siem Beets.

Billennium is the result of an investigation into the communal and modular architecture that emerged from the studio of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in the 1970s, combined with the literature of sci-fi writer J.G. Ballard. In 1962, Ballard wrote Billennium, a story that describes the claustrophobia and paralysis of an overcrowded world. Billennium departs from the symbol of the bee as a floating signifier and relocates in the discontinuous line between utopia and dystopia in architecture, a balancing exercise that is repeated in the entire installation at a structural level. Adding to Ballard's scenario, Moreno speculates on a post-apocalyptic future in which honey, rather than gold or petrol, would act as the main value marker.

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