Have a vermouth on Oblicuas on Sunday 18 September around the ACVIC. Centre d’Arts Contemporànies. Like any other Sunday, we will come together with all the objects that accompany (or create) a vermouth. We will say yes to multi/dysfunctionality, because everything and nothing is as it seems. But we are clear on one thing: we will meet, have a toast, drink and chat – over a vermouth!

Oblicuas is a collective that works from-with-on the hacking of objects. Its practice focuses on re-thinking and re-appropriating the everyday materialities around us. The performative vermouth is part of their latest project “Funció Trencada” (Funció Rota), an artistic research project on hacking and residency at the Sala d’Art Jove 2022 with the support of Anna Moreno.

FUNCIÓ TRENCADA

In “Vivir una Vida Feminista”, Sara Ahmed refers to cisheteronormativity as a form of public comfort allowing bodies to extend into spaces that have already taken their shape. While she uses this example as a metaphor to explain how the non-cis heterosexual body feels in a world that casts it out, it is still based on a truth: the environment, the objects we associate with and form ourselves on contain a set of standards that make it possible for certain lives to extend, while others, who cannot find their spaces, contract. In a world of ‘things’ aimed at producing certain types of lives and specific bodies and expelling others, Oblicuas views hacking as a tool that can generate other (un)expected links and narratives, creating spaces to exist and gain substance. A formal and/or functional rupture of the object that allows us to re-think, alter and appropriate given materialities. “Funció Trencada” (Funció Rota) is an artistic research project that by creating an archive of hacks in the field of film explores the collective imagination of everyday hacking.