Vulnerable Beings

MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology)

Fall, 2021

Vulnerable Beings is a multi-sited project about space and cohabitation, seen through the lens of infectious diseases. It is a platform where artistic, academic, and political perspectives about illness and health can speak to one another. Vulnerable Beings is not about the current pandemic; rather, it places the events of the past two years within a broader spatial and temporal context, problematizing what happened in light of other lived experiences. Vulnerable Beings asks how epidemiological knowledge is produced and spatialized, and whom it excludes; how the language around illness and health can be re-signified, to do away with oppressive metaphors; and how to learn from past and present forms of collective organizing in the face of suffering.

Curators: Ivan L. Munuera and Andrea Bagnato

Agents: Jack Halberstam, Himali Singh Soin, Isabel Amaral, Sofia Lemos, Edwin Nasr, Uriel Orlow, Jasbir K. Puar, Sarah Schulman, Nerea Calvillo, Lucia Casani and Monica Carroquino, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Michael Marder, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Françoise Vergès, Michael Wang, Vivian Caccuri, Carlo Caduff, Teresa Fabião, Dan Glass, Fatima Raza Kolb, Panagiota Kotsila, Meike Wolf, Rachaporn Choochuey, Sofia Gallisá Muriente, Cruz García, Tomaso de Luca, Marina Otero Verzier, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

Visual Identity: Omnigroup

Photographs: Interactive Brands Agency

More info: MAAT