La isla de hidrógeno (The Hydrogen Island)

29 april, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Place
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
La isla de hidrógeno
La isla de hidrógeno

The artistic team PSJM will present La Isla de Hidrógeno, a book in which a well-structured bunch of solid characters comes together in different organically related stories. PSJM, a duo formed by Cynthia Viera and Pablo San José based in Berlin, once again brings seemingly disparate spheres of culture into contact, combining philosophical, sociological and political utopian literature with entertainment narrative.

The novel La Isla de Hidrógeno follows a tradition begun by William Morris with his News from Nowhere, in which the artist and theoretician of the Arts and Crafts Movement committed himself to an ideal vision of society through narrative. It also incorporates aspects of Swedish crime fiction, which presents genuine Scandinavian dystopias where entertainment literature meets social criticism.

The authors of the book will be joined by Miguel Cereceda, José Luis Corazón and Jesús Carrillo.

Participants

PSJM, artistic team formed in 2003 by Cynthia Viera and Pablo San José based in Berlin. PSJM acts as a commercial brand of theoretical and plastic products, using cognitive capitalism’s own procedures to reveal its contradictions. 

Miguel Cereceda, Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has published several books and curated a large number of contemporary art exhibitions.

José Luis Corazón, a Ph. D. at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He works as an essayist, art critic and exhibition curator.

Jesús Carrillo, Head of Cultural Programmes, Museo Reina Sofía.