‘Troglosoma II. Workshops’ Valentin Bansac | laura fernández antolín | Sofia Kouloukouri | Manuel Prados | Elena Rocabert | Oxel Urra | Jorge Van den Eynde

In our weeklong trip to the Altamira National Museum and Research Center in April 2024, in collaboration with Asunción Martinez (Educational Department) and Sofía Cuadrado (World Heritage Department), we explored all terrains, human and non-human, inside and around the museum. Having been met right away with the impossibility of entering the original cave, we nevertheless explored the terrain more than any visitor and sought to make sense of it with all our senses. We touched, sniffed, slithered, listened to, and dreamt day and night about the extended Altamira territory, a land with a forest that had been inhabited for so long before the cave paintings garnered international attention. Collected here is a series of sensory experiences that we launched to try to perceive Altamira in its complexity in an attempt to transcend the barriers that exist around the cave itself.

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Thread:
Ecologies
Artists:
Date:
13/01 2025
Season:
Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies: Year Zero
Episode:
‘TROGLOSOMA’
Type:
Writings
Credits:
'TROGLOSOMA' is a research project by Valentin Bansac, laura fernández antolín, Sofia Kouloukouri, Manuel Prados, Elena Rocabert, Oxel Urra Sánchez and Jorge Van Den Eynde. It was made possible through the engagement with different agents, such as Asunción Martínez Llano, Sofía Cuadrado Almuiña, Alfredo Prada Freixedo, Lucía María Díaz González, María Dolores Mesa Algar, Sergio Sánchez-Moral, Tamara Martín Pozas, Simón López Trujillo and María Buey.

'TROGLOSOMA' has been conceived within Organismo, the Independent Study Program organized by TBA21–Academy and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, developed in collaboration with Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira - Subdirección General de Museos Estatales, Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural y Bellas Artes - Ministerio de Cultura de España.