The Institute of Things to Come

31/08/2021

As previously announced, we are happy to share the link to El Palomar' Spotify page. 💽

Here you can listen the album 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 - 𝑳𝑷 (2021), adapted from the film ‘Schreber is a Woman’ by .
The LP includes the extended version of all the songs from the film plus some unreleased ones. While all the lyrics were written based on the testimony of Daniel Paul Schreber's delusions documented by herself on her “Memoirs of my nervous illness”.

This project is directed by non-binary artists and executed entirely by trans and non-binary people.

📌 Printed with special silver ink, this artist edition is limited to 100 numbered units - buy it here: https://bit.ly/38paVwO

El Palomar · Album · 2021 · 11 songs.

26/08/2021

📌 Here are some visuals from El Palomar’s ‘𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 - LP (2021)’, the latest project of ‘The Institute of Things to Come 2021 program’.

is a Barcelona-based art collective whose work focuses on the investigation, recovery and production of q***r memories to review the hidden history related to gender politics.
"Schreber is a woman" is a film that departs from the case and memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber, a German judge confined to the Sonnenstein mental asylum in Saxony in 1894.
In her Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, she recounts feeling like a woman, among other experiences. The limited vinyl edition with the original soundtrack created by El Palomar for ‘Schreber is a Woman’, depars from the voices Schreber heard in the asylum and described in her memoirs. This production overlaps contemporary sound aesthetics with late 1800' Schreber context and references. All the voices are performed by Charm Mone and all the songs were created by Mariokissme, under the direction of El Palomar.

🎧 Here is the Spotify link, with some extracts from the LP: https://spoti.fi/2XYxO8u

20/08/2021

💽 The Institute of Things to Come is glad to announce the launch of the new project by El Palomar. ⤵️

The artistic duo, formed in 2013 by and , develops a shared practice that debunks authorship and reorganizes art as a critical space of s*x and gender dissidence, focusing on the investigation, recovery and production of q***r memories.
Their new project titled ‘Schreber is a woman - LP (2021)’ contains the original soundtrack of the film 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧, including the extended version of all the songs from the film plus some unreleased ones. The film and the LP narrates the experience of , a German judge confined to the Sonnenstein mental asylum in Saxony in 1894, who is now considered a pivotal figure in the research towards alternative representations of gender and q***rnes.

As associate artists of 2021, developed a 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐥 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 and all the lyrics were written based on the testimony of Daniel Paul Schreber's delusions documented by herself on her “Memoirs of my nervous illness”.

📌 To purchase the LP: https://bit.ly/3gfH7as

Here you can find the youtube link to the presentation video of the project ⤵️

https://youtu.be/dtpxmsAs0eM

Etc. a song from the original soundtrack of the film Schreber is a Woman.Music composed by Mariokissme and produced by El Palomar. Featuring vocals by Charm ...

01/07/2021

📌 Last 5 days to see new piece online! "Tracing a Memory part 2" relates to Dutch colonization, decolonization movements, and contemporary concerns of recolonization in the Caribbean.

VIDEO ➡️ https://fb.watch/6tzXcd3HUF/

Produced with Kunsthal Gent
Filmed and edited by

28/06/2021

📲 Follow The Institute of Things to Come also on Instagram and don't forget the official hashtag . ⤵

21/06/2021

📸 After the opening on the 10th of June, we take a closer look at ’s installation "Blutbade Parade", on view until the 25th of July at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

Her work is a formal reflection upon alternative historical narratives:
In 1916 in the city of Karlsruhe, the French air force bombed a circus in the middle of a performance, killing hundreds of civilians, including many women and children.
Starting from this historical fact, Pauline Curnier Jardin’s installation Blutbad Parade, narrates the story of a phantom circus that returns every hundred years to play again on the site of original violence. The work weaves together her interest for the carnivalesque and avant-guarde, tracing an inquiry into the categories of the deviant, the monstrous and the aberrancy of the war.
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17/06/2021

📹 "Tracing a memory part 2" goes online for 10 days.

After showing Gario's new piece at Kunsthal Gent until June 13, we make it available on our page. ⤵️

Quinsy Gario' s new piece relates to Dutch colonization, decolonization movements, and contemporary concerns of recolonization in the Caribbean. In 2019, with his mother, he shot a film on the Island of St. Maarten, a former Dutch colony, to revisit the locations shown on a post-war governmental documentary (1947) on former Dutch colonies in the Caribbean. While attempting to synchronize the two films,
Gario makes comments on the racist and colonial terms used in the original 1947 documentary and explore the role of memory formation in resistance to acts of political and historical suppression.
The piece was filmed\edited by Shivadas De Schrijver and produced in collaboration with Kunsthal Gent

15/06/2021

📸 Some pictures of ’s "Night Soil / Fake Paradise" on view at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo until July 25.

The work is part of her experimental semi-documentary films series Night Soil dedicated to cultural phenomena that contradict the linear progression of capitalism and its value system.
The piece considers the spiritual, medicinal and social dimensions of , an Amazonian plant with psychedelic properties. Navigating personal stories of experiences and perspectives induced by ayahuasca, the video installation pays close attention to the female voice, which has traditionally been neglected in psychedelic research and popular culture.
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11/06/2021

Yesterday we celebrated the opening of ’s double presentation at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, with installations by artists and .

📸 Here some footage of the opening night, works on view till the 25th of July!

More info here: https://bit.ly/3giXALv

10/06/2021

Today marks the launch of the double exhibition Fake Paradise and Blutbad Parade by artists and , curated by at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

📌 The installations will be on view until the 25th of July, come by today at 18:30 for the official opening!

More info here ➡️ https://fb.me/e/pU0n6W7v6

09/06/2021

is one of the two artists featured in 2021 programme: her work will be exhibited form June 10 to July 25 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

Curnier’s work, titled "Blutbade Parade", is inspired by an historical event: in 1916 in the city of Karlsruhe, the French air force bombed a circus in the middle of a performance, killing hundreds of civilians, including many women and children.
Starting from this historical fact, Pauline Curnier Jardin’s installation Blutbad Parade, narrates the story of a phantom circus that returns every hundred years to play again on the site of original violence. The work woven together her interest for the carnivalesque and avant-guarde, tracing an inquiry into the categories of the deviant, the monstrous and the aberrancy of the war.

📌 The exhibition, curated by , will open to the public on the 10th of June (tomorrow), h 6.30 pm.

More info: https://fb.me/e/pU0n6W7v6
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08/06/2021

is one of the two artists featured in 2021 programme: her work will be exhibited form June 10 to July 25 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

Her installation, "Fake Paradise", is part of her experimental semi-documentary films series "Night Soil", dedicated to cultural phenomena that contradict the linear progression of capitalism and its value system.
The piece considers the spiritual, medicinal and social dimensions of ayahuasca, an Amazonian plant with psychedelic properties. Navigating personal stories of experiences and perspectives induced by ayahuasca, the video installation pays close attention to the female voice, which has traditionally been neglected in psychedelic research and popular culture.

📌 More info here: https://bit.ly/3pv46BH