New book Interspecies documents the co-curated exhibition with ITI researchers
The book Interspecies, edited by Mariana Pestana, documents the research and co-curatorial process developed for the exhibition at Centro de Arquitetura MAC/CCB, and was co-published with Bartlebooth. Conceived both as an exhibition and as a research device, the project was collaboratively shaped by researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute, including Anna Bertmark, Bernardo Gaeiras, Carlos Pastor, Fernanda Costa, Katerina Iglezaki, Mariana Simões, Mathilde Gouin, and Valentina Demarchi. Together, the team examined interspecies practices in architecture and design through a sustained curatorial inquiry.
Grounded in feminist and posthumanist frameworks, the publication advances the hypothesis of a “New Romanticism” as a critical orientation that recognises interdependence between humans, animals, technologies, minerals, atmospheres, and planetary systems. Interspecies relations were enacted not only as thematic content but through curatorial methodology, spatial configuration, and audience engagement. Exhibition design functioned as a mode of research.
The volume brings together projects and texts by the curatorial research team alongside invited contributors Coletivo FIELD, Coletivo Frame, KWY.studio, Studio Ossidiana, and SUPERFLEX, whose works extend the interspecies inquiry across architectural, artistic, and material practices.
Publication details
224 pages
120 × 200 mm
Hardcover with blind embossing
Offset print 4/4
Bilingual edition Spanish and English
ISBN (ES) 978-84-129322-6-3 / 978-972-8944-61-2
ISBN (EN) 978-84-129322-5-6 / 978-972-8944-60-5
The publication is available via Bartlebooth:
https://bartlebooth.org/Interespecies
