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Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation is an international art and architecture practice, based in New York and Madrid. The office, founded in 2003, is run by artist-architect-curator Andrés Jaque (1971, Spain). The firm examines the relationship between people and the environment, at the cutting edge of performance, design and architecture. 

 

Among their most important distinctions are the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts (2016) and the Silver Lion for Best Research project (14th Venice Biennale, 2014). 

 

Their work is included in the collections at, among others, the MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago. In their performances they investigate architectural forms, including: Being Silica (Performa NY, 2021), IKEA Disobedients (MoMA, 2012) and Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Architecture Triennial 2013). 

 

Other installations are based on scientific research, such as: Spirits Roaming the Earth (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018) and Pornified Homes (Oslo Architecture Triennial, 2016). 

On display at COME CLOSER

Intimate Strangers, 2016

Video, on loan

Take a look inside the head office of Grindr, the first dating app to put homosexual men in touch with each other. Most profiles are very carefully constructed. You can be an online character that does or doesn't match who you really are. The app seems like a safe space for LGBT emancipation, also in countries where homosexuality is illegal. But intolerant governments can also use the app to track down users… 

 

Continuous viewing, duration: 26 mins. Unfortunately not accessible with pushchair or for people in a wheelchair.

Transspecies Kitchen, 2022

Performance — 06.07.2024 (past)

We eat, digest and decompose. You also find these essential processes in the geological evolutions of our planet. In Transspecies Kitchen (2022), these are combined, allowing us to reconnect with the planet. In a one-off activation, the artist invites you to come and taste what is being prepared in the kitchen, using fermentation. Feel how cooking and eating brings people together. With each other and with the environment. 

 

In collaboration with Natalie (Elder-Lab). This performance is sold out. 

Transspecies Kitchen, 2022

Sculpture, on loan

We eat, digest and decompose. You also find these essential processes in the geological evolutions of our planet. In Transspecies Kitchen (2022), these are combined, allowing us to reconnect with the planet. The kitchen is made of stone, the result of a natural earth formation. The meal is prepared using fermentation: micro-organisms transform food into energy, in the same way as our own digestive process. 

 

  • Continuous viewing
  • Please do not touch