Filipa Ramos Read Bio Collapse
Filipa Ramos is a writer and curator born in Lisbon. She is interested in how art engages with ecology and fosters relationships between humans, non-humans, and machines. She is curator of Art Basel Film and a founding curator of Vdrome. She has lectured widely in Europe, Asia, and the United States. She is a lecturer at the master’s program of the Art Institute, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, where she runs the “Art & Nature” seminars. She is co-curator of “Bodies of Water,” the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020–21). Her upcoming book, The Artist as Ecologist, will be published by Lund Humphries in 2022
Allora & Calzadilla in collaboration with Ted Chiang, The Great Silence, presented by Filipa Ramos
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Affects, contemplations, stimulations, and struggles happen in and through the lap, this site that accumulates the contexts of motherhood (associated with the womb and with the bodily grammar of caring), sexual entertainment (the lap as a space where two bodies come closer through a clientele dynamic), and domesticity (the pet dog as an extension of the family sphere, a receiver of libidinal transferences, and as sublimator of privately occurring sexual drives). The lap constitutes a space at once para-sexualized—where the relation between the mother and the child, the caretaker and the cared for, takes place—and a space at the core of the unfolding of a relation of intimacy, as the lap opens itself to both male and female sexual organs, with potential physical consequences for its beholders. The significance and potential of this accumulation of functions in this space that is at once intimate and public opens itself, when the laptop arrives, to a new configuration.
