Curatorial

Curatorial projects by This is Jackalope

25 February 2023

ARCOmadrid 2023

Performance by Jonás de Murias

Jonás de Murias remixes sound material and lyrics from archives of traditional music and popular songs, transcending and rethinking the relationship between folklore and geography. From this mixture of sound and linguistic textures, he traces and resignifies inherited cultural skills and traits that we are used to relate to identity.

Vinyl session by Arque

Ambient Downtempo Dub Electronic

pics by Laura C. Vela

26th November 2021

Waiting to Reconnect

Hanne Lippard & Claudia Pagès

Waiting to Reconnect is the fifth episode in An Involuntary Trace, the exhibition cycle which the collective This is Jackalope has been curating in Room A throughout 2021. It adopts the form of a dual exercise in creating a deliberate failure of language.

The capacity of communication is destabilised: on the one hand through constant repetition (Hanne Lippard), which inevitably breaks down the linear perception of time; and on the other, due to the recurring use of the gerund (Claudia Pagès), which puts us in a time of ongoing action that simultaneously becomes a temporality nullified by jurisdictional language, once again sabotaging the communicative role of words. The body and humanity are put in check.

21st October 2021 - 09th January 2022

You, the World and I

A Solo Show by Jon Rafman

You, the World and I

You, the World and I by Jon Rafman is the fourth episode in An Involuntary Trace, curated by This is Jackalope at La Casa Encendida.

The show adopts the form of a two-piece installation that explores the digital trace left by the random and automatic images that are being generated constantly. Rafman’s work examines the relationship between technology and users and its implications for the modern human experience. Of particular interest on this occasion is the artist’s ability to disclose an invisible story: that which is told by the images of ourselves that circulate on the internet but in which we are not identified.

9 July - 26 September

I´m still learning

A solo show by Jonathan Baldock

Entitled I Am Still Learning [Aún aprendo], British artist Jonathan Baldock’s exhibition is the third episode of the cycle An Involuntary Trace, curated by This is Jackalope for La Casa Encendida.

Baldock’s starting point is the drawing by Goya of the same title (I Am Still Learning), which shows an old man walking along with great difficulty as he leans on two crutches. The image initially conjures up the will and the need we all have to continue to learn despite the shortcomings of old age. However, what Baldock is mostly interested in is the feeling of humility it expresses in today’s context of anthropocentric crisis and the urgency of adopting a listening attitude towards Nature. Baldock is presenting an alternative reality from which to recover our ability to connect to the elements, synchronising once again with our natural surroundings and, in the wider sense, with the planet itself. I Am Still Learning is an imaginary, queer scenario located in another space-time which transports us into a universe of healing.

21st April - 20th June

Mayflower

A dialogue between Javier Cruz and David Horvitz

Mayflower is the second episode of the series An Involuntary Trace, curated by This Is Jackalope in Room A in 2021.

This proposal presents David Horvitz and Javier Cruz, who share the ability to communicate complex ideas through exhibits which at first glance appear simple. Addressing the work of both artists is like facing life itself; in its apparent everyday guise, their production puts the viewer in touch with the essence of deep thoughts that are transmitted through gestures of great poetic impact.