Spanish Pavilion 57 Venice Biennale
Jordi Colomer. Curator: Manuel Segade
¡Únete! Join Us! invites visitors to become participants in an exploration of nomadism and collective agency.
Transhumance, wanderings, journeyings, strayings, displacement: these themes are key to the exhibition, whose reference point is rooted in urban utopias that use movement as part of a radical rethinking of social imagination.
“The imperative mode in ¡Únete! Join us!, addressed to each individual person, is not simply an appeal but truly expects something from the viewer. This bid for allegiance, in the hope that visitors decide to take part, goes beyond the decision to enter the exhibition hall: it is a relational expectation," notes curator Manuel Segade.
Marking a return to his early sculptural and theatrical interest, Jordi Colomer’s exhibition at the Pavilion of Spain is conceived as an installation of installations. Precarious sculptures and transitory architectures form a theatre within the pavilion, encompassing its audience as they walk through the space and turning them into actors, mobilising the space with their presence. The installations offer a path via several video narratives; a journey of occasions, unexpected encounters, playful improvisations and collective gestures that reveal how a community turns an urban landscape into a potential site for exchange, capable of affecting reality.
“A contemporary urban landscape represents displacement and various themes involving movement—political, social and physical—while also moving between the public and the personal,” says Segade.
The fictional premise in the video pieces is a group of people moving across different sites and guided by three women: the actress Laura Weissmahr, the writer and singer Lydia Lunch and the dancer Anita Deb. Their continuous migration unfold semantics of displacement: decidedly low-resource settings reflect on the uncertainty and ambivalence of a mobile, unstable, border-crossing citizenry. Colomer states: “There’s a certain meaning of the term stage scenery as a provisional architecture that is portable, of open-use, capable of being interacted with. My characters act within the city in that sense."
Halfway between a portable pavilion and a wanderer’s wagon, a moveable contraption connects the spaces in the itinerary conjuring a Kafkaesque Babel where nomadic motion is also linguistic commotion, a vernacular displacement inflecting and translating a de-territorialized community’s activities.
book
!Únete! Join Us!
Texts (english):
The Coming Citizenry
Manuel Segade
Architecture and Its Double
Bruce Bégout
Construction Without End
Manuel Cirauqui
Little Magazines:
Portable Utopia
Beatriz Colomina
Apparitions Theatre
Andrea Valdés
Jumping over walls
A conversation between
Francesco Careri and Jordi Colomer
¡Únete!
Join Us!
318 pags.
español / english
(Descarga aquí! / Download here!)
Graphic design
Bureau Alex Gifreu
Con la participación de /
Featuring:
Ana Deb Rani
Lydia Lunch
Laura Weissmahr
Nashville
Daniel & Lily Anderson
Rian Archer
Rian Archer
Sarah Bandy
Nick Barret
Pat Boyer
Nina Camp
Tyler Coburn
Rebekah Cope
Jacob Davis
Tom Dowling
Ron Gallo
Lauren Gilbert
Derrik Jefferally
Ryan Jennings
Dixie Johnson
Skye Kaericher
Chloe Katerndahl
Ace S Lawrence
Rache Magdal
Paul Morse
Corey Parsons
Kayla Brooke Powel
Jakson Quiggins
Noel Richards
Luke Schneider
Rosalyn & Myah & Dean Sowell
Nichdas Swafford
Shaylee Walsh
Diana Lee Zadlo
Viladamat, Sitges, Barcelona
Fernando Acosta
Feliz Alcalà
Xavier Almar
Raquel Aloma
Dani Armengol
Roger Badia
Marta Barretina
Joel Barrocal
Lina Bause
Ferran Bell
David Borotau
Adrià Botella
Albert Bret Quero
Felisa Cabas
Daniel Cardone
Francisco Casado
Albert Casas
Anna Castell
Valentina Colomer
Gumersindo Cornejo
Yuri Cortés
Irene De Andrés
Sebastián Díaz
Joshua Duliah
Dionis Escorça
Eric Fuenmayor
Juan David Galindo
Yolanda García
Nube García
Antoni García
Joan Gener
Elsy Guimerà
Mireia Hurtado
Andrés Hurtado
Carmen Hyland
Rosa Ibañez
Abel Leiva Sarubbi
Deng Liwen
Gemma Llorés
Sergi López
Lina López
Carlos Lucín
Patricia Maeser
Penélope Maldonado
Camille Marie
Pedro Marqués
Paula Miranda
Alex Montero
Javier Morales
Silvia Moreno
Génesis Nieto
Familia Niqueleti
Arnau Pascual
Laiane Pereira
Ferran Pérez
Alba Pérez
Eduardo Picazo
Lluis Planas
Alexandra Pont
Marga Porcelas
Irene Punset
Joan Recasens
Gerard Riera
Francisco Ripoll
Tanit Rodríguez
Aura Roldán
Francesc Ruiz
Mohammed Saar
Paulina Saramillo
Marc Serrarroca
Josep Soler
Horacio Sosa
Ször Syonn
Rosa Tharrats
Rafael Turú
Naïma Underwood
Aldo Urbano
Gabriel Ventura
Joan Viscasillas
Gemma Viscasillas
Fernando Xiberta
Xisi Sofía Yechen
Atenas / Athens
Patrikio Annoc
Saliagkodoulou Chrysanthi
¡Únete! Join Us!
2017
An installation by Jordi Colomer
Curator: Manuel Segade
Organizada por
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
y de Cooperación. Agencia Española
de Cooperación Internacional para
el Desarrollo (AECID)
Organised by
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation. Spanish Agency
for International Development
Cooperation (AECID)
Con la colaboración de
Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
With the collaboration of
Spain’s Public Agency for Cultural
Action (AC/E)
Coordinación pabellón español /
Coordination Spanish Pavilion
Alejandro Romero
Álvaro Callejo
Pedro Vasconi
Coordinación AC/E /
Coordination AC/E
Anael García
Producción artística / Artistic production
Carolina Olivares
(CO producciones)
Asistentes del artista / Artist assistants
Albert García Alzorriz
Víctor Ruiz Colomer
Asistente comisariado / Assistant curator
Violeta Janeiro
Dirección de fotografía /
Director of photography
Julien Perrin
Marcell Erdélyi
Auxiliares de cámara / Camera Assistants
Adrià Botella
Zak Ramis
Nyk Allen
Sonido / Sound
Adrià Martí Comas
Asistente de sonido / Sound assistant
Roger Cuixart
Asistente de estudio / Studio assistant
Sagi Szabolcs
Vestuario / Costume
Rosa Tharrats
Asistente de vestuario / Costume assistant
Penélope Maldonado
Construcción de decorados /
Set construction
Paula Miranda
Joan Viscasillas
Serigrafía / Silkscreen
Sebastián Díaz
Herrero / Metal construction
Gustavo Bernabé
Construcción aluminio /
Aluminium construction
Jorge García
Transfer vídeo / Transfer video
Tomás Muñoz
Mariona Boada
Conductor / Driver
Seth Murray
Foto fija / Still photographers
Javier Almar
Aggelos Mihas
Álvaro Valdecantos
William Keihn
Fotógrafo instalación pabellón /
Photographer, pavilion installation
Claudio Franzini
Montaje vídeo / Editing
Jordi Colomer
Julien Perrin
Editor y montaje de sonido /
Sound editor and sound mixing
Bruno Ehlinger
Retoque de color /
Digital colour grading artist
Catherine Libert
Post-producción / Post-production
Anna Sanders
BUZZ Management (Paris)
Jean-Philippe Badoui
Directora de producción /
Director of production
Carolina Olivares
Asistente de producción /
Production assistant
Albert Kuhn
Producción Nashville /
Nashville production
Oscar Boyson
Elise Tyler
Asistidos por /assisted by Ally Brown,
Alexandra Nelsen
Asistente de atrezzo / Props assistant
Garland Gallaspy
Producción Atenas / Athens production
Maria Karagiannaki
Catherine Libert
Montaje expositivo / Exhibition set up
DUPLA (Paula Miranda,
Joan Viscasillas)
Kers Costruzioni
Equipos audiovisuales /
Video and Audio equipment
Pro Av Saarikko Oy
Gráfica / Graphic design
Bureau Alex Gifreu
Transporte / Transport
CLM Logistics
Prensa y comunicación /
Press and communication
Pickles PR
¡Únete! Join Us! by Jordi Colomer Venice Biennale 2017 from jordi colomer on Vimeo.
¡únete! Join Us! Spanish Pavilion biennale venezia 2017 installation from jordi colomer on Vimeo.
¡únete! Join Us! Spanish Pavilion biennale venezia 2017
Installation by: Jordi COLOMER. Curator: Manuel SEGADE
produced by AECID, with collaboration: AC/E
Artistic production: COproducciones
