Unzipped Parties

Russian Federation Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale

2021

Online parties, livestream raves, celebratory demonstrations in public spaces, and physical gatherings that take into account a coexistence with COVID-19 (e.g. usage of protective gear, safe distances) have shown ways of understanding parties in the age of this pandemic. The transition to a new citizenship involves the need for bodies to reconfigure and emerge as part of a world with COVID-19. It constitutes a sense of coexistence with non-human agents based on mutual caring, as well as a fight against environmental violence and an uneven balance of power based on econoracist and neocolonial concepts. The question is not to suppress celebration. We need parties more than ever. Parties that can coexist with COVID-19 in a collective bodily regime of techno-social experimentation

Ivan L. Munuera & Manu Alba

Voice: Alison McIlvride

Sound/Color. Dur. 5:58 mins.