CRYO
CRYO is a research project that focuses on the amalgamations of scientific-poetic-somatic-mythological narratives that are entangled in ice. The project aims to address the “cryosphera” or “coldscape,” as a cryo-ecological framework where ice, as a queerifying agent, fuses the distinctions between natural and artificial, life and death, urban and rural, into an intertwined continuum. In a melting world, the categories of liquid modernity (and its ultra-fast forms of worldmaking) no longer apply to us. Perhaps in the condition of suspension, of latency, in the liminal modes of that which simultaneously “is no longer and is not yet” that ice proposes, we can find other ways of thinking-feeling-acting in the present.
Ona Bros
Her work emerges from situated processes, queer practices, and embodied investigations. She politically addresses images as catalysts for complex semiotic-technical-material interactions. Her praxis is embedded in a rich network of collaborations and collective resonances. She works with photography, video, text, and live art.
She studied Art History (UB), holds a master's degree in Artistic Production and Research (UB), and holds a degree in Photography from the Center for Image and Multimedia Technology (UPC).
She has been a resident at Hangar. Her work has circulated in various venues: La Panera, MACBA, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, La Casa Encendida, and ACVic, among others. She has given lectures and workshops at the Dutch Art Institute; DONE, the Visual Reflection and Creation Program; the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encounter in Lima; Hangar, and Hamaca.
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