20.03.2025 / 7pm
Socorro Polivalente
CUT CUT CUT de Mariajosé Fernández-Plenge irrumpe como una reflexión crítica y poética sobre cómo el tiempo, enmarcado en el sistema capitalista, es mercantilizado, fragmentado y reconfigurado en función del valor económico. Su propuesta —heredera de las exploraciones performativas de los sesenta en donde el cuerpo, las instrucciones y lo ritual operan como vectores de sentido— opera como un dispositivo de desmontaje, donde el corte, tanto literal como metafórico, se convierte en un gesto que interroga la relación entre tiempo, productividad y subjetividad. Una acción mínima que devela que el tiempo no es solo un recurso cuantificable, sino una entidad maleable que delimita y condiciona nuestras existencias, evidenciando su papel como mecanismo de control que regula las subjetividades y restringe la agencia de los cuerpos dentro de un desenfrenado sistema de acumulación.
Christian Bernuy del Carpio
Time is precious. Quantity of time (time as we know it), is limited. It is what we cannot make more of.We live in an era where humanity has consolidated a system in which every action is inscribed in a financial algorithm, converting the exchange of time for money in a fundamental practice of our existence. This performance invites you to reflect on time and interpret it with your most subjective point of view.CUT CUT CUT was a performance done in New York / June 26th, 2024. Viewers were invited to choose one of the 60 clocks tied to the artist’s clothing, follow the chord of the object and cut the piece of clothing attached to it with sharp black scissors in order to take it home with them. The clocks ran out after 2 hours.
I. time
/tīm/
noun
the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
II. “Capitalism is dead, but it has achieved immortality thanks to financial and virtual transubstantiation. The financial mathematization of the ordinary business of life is the source of the immortalization of the corpse of capitalism.”
- From Franco “Bifo” Berardi on his book The Second Coming.