Artwork is a method that borrows from somatic, spiritual, therapeutic techniques and aesthetics but it is centered on transforming artworks into practices. It extracts and abstractly formulates conceptual and performative operations behind artworks. The operations are then embodied and applied to other spheres of life. Central to Artwork is the idea that artworks should be practiced, that art shouldn't just be seen, it should be lived. Why all the effort to create artworks just to be finished in products to be consumed? An artwork is the crystallization of a practice, it's also the documentation of a practice. If it's actualized in our bodies, it can also be a portal back to that practice. In Artwork, works that are done mostly to be looked at are activated in the bodies of visitors /clients /students, they're transformed into Artwork – an artwork and a new method at the same time. Artwork is ambiguous, it can appear as performance, therapy, exhibition, workshop, promotional event, text, artwork or a combination of these, depending on the context – art, philosophy, spirituality, therapy, education, literature. Ideally, people from many of these fields are brought together at the same event. Artwork is the meeting of these publics, conventions and perspectives around artworks as practices. 

For each work actualized in Artwork will be a text. The texts are based on notes written from inside, while practicing the artworks. They combine the style of explorers' live diaries with theoretical inputs associated with those explorations. In the past, the unknown was spatially distributed, the extraordinary was geographically accessible. There were fantastic stories and speculations about places like Antarctica, Amazonia… which were firing the imagination of explorers. There were alien cultures, subjectivities that had the power to activate possible exits from the implicit certainties of one's time and space. Now cultures are more and more homogeneous. It feels like there is nothing to explore, that we already know what is, there is nowhere to go. In this situation, art can be one of the last possible explorations still available to us. Contemporary art has at its core the drive to surpass itself, to deviate from the consensus and mess with its own axioms, through works that expand what can be considered art. It's where new territories can be explored.

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Notes from inside artworks – documentation as text.

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I'm interested in body situations and capacities that affect what underlies the conceptual and perceptual, what is possible to think, see and feel in different contexts. More than visual or conceptual I see my recent practice as affect art.