Page 172 - Únete. Join us (Bienal de Venecia, 57 edición)

172 ¡ÚNETE! JOIN US! JORDI COLOMER The women in this piece teach us to act: their frenzy in front of an expectant public turns vulnerability into actions that make precariousness endurable, in new, happier, and more active forms of life. The gestures of all those who accompany and assist them, their presence holding, looking at, watching over, things, amount to an acceptance of vulnerability whereby rituals and representations, even uniforms and containers, may become a vindication of bodily dependence and the condition of precariousness, a performative potential that may turn politics into liveable life. If they dance or pedal away, or if viewers climb onto the terraced seats to watch, to be watched or maybe also to dance, it is because they are joining a theatre of the real opposed to the world’s representational mode as spectacle, and the politics of the everyday as oppression. Framing this work within the science fictional genre of anticipation, where existing human institutions have a domestic, homely reflection, it is possible to understand how genre discontinuities reinforce the narrative: Country music, Bollywood films, literary or cinematic references operate in the dimension of retrieved experience. Alternative cultural formations are imagined without being represented as alternatives. And they belong to the time yet to come as much as to the space that is yet to arrive.