3 April 2005

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Compressed Affair by Agricola de Cologne
Violencia sin Cuerpos
Snowblossom House
Museo National Reina Sofia Madrid

In order to avoid domestic violence as a result of the Corona shutdown, it is helpful to deal with art, take a look to this article and become creative!

It is already the 4th day, that the exhibition “Violencia sin cuerpos” (violence without bodies) curated by

Remedios Zafra

Remedios Zafra (Zuheros, Córdoba, Spain, 1973) is a writer and full time professor of Art, Innovation and Digital Culture at the University of Seville and professor of “Politics of the Gaze” in the Masters Degree In Theory And Cultural Criticism of the Carlos III University of Madrid. PhD of Fine Arts, International Master’s Degree in Creativity and higher studies in Art, Philosophy and Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her research studies and books have been aimed at the interrelationship between “Art and Technology”, “Feminist and Gender Studies” and “Critical Theory of Digital Culture”.

Remedios Zafra is currently the director of an international research project entitled “Gender and Cyberspace through Art and visual representation” (Ministry of Science and Innovation) and person in charge of the social research and innovation project “Gender and imaginary in studies and professions linked to engineering” in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering of Deusto an the Institute of Technology, DeustoTech (University of Deusto, Bilbao, 2011-2012)

She has been curator, among other things, of the net.art exhibition Violencia sin Cuerpos” “ [Violence without Bodies] within the interdisciplinary project “Cárcel de Amor. Relatos culturales sobre la violencia de género” [Prison of Love. Cultural accounts of gender violence] of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte REINA SOFÍA (MNCARS, Madrid, Spain) in collaboration with the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Párraga de Murcia, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Almagro, Centre d’Art de la Panera, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, Filmoteca de Canarias y CaixaForum de Barcelona (2005-2006). She organised the first net.art and cyberfeminism exhibition in Spanish: Habitar en (punto)net [Inhabiting in (dot)net], Espai>f, Mataró, Barcelona, 2003.

Violencia sincuerpos – participating works
Cárcel de Amor
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is running @ Museo National Arte Contemporanea Reina Sofia as a part of the project “Cárcel de Amor” (Prison of Love”)(31 March- 8 May 2005). Wilfried was invited to participate in the show about “violence on gender/domestic violence” with his small interactive, net based piece “Compressed Affair” dealing with relation between a male and a female reduced to three basic actions – sex, compulsion and violence. This piece, Wilfried realised already in 2001, was already in 2002 selected in the project “Snowblossom House” curated by Anne-Marie Schleiner which was running during Sonar Festival 2001 Barcelona.

Compressed Affair by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, interactive, 2001