Javier Peñafiel explores a connection between archival objects that have lost their original function, magazines from the democratic transition, illustrated portraits, and unexpected books. 

News from our recent past, linked to the Planas Archive, is now carefully tended within the metabolic gap of the new Cold War (artificial intelligence). This parallels the reworking of other documents related to all-inclusive “gastroterror” and environmental stress as shared heritage. It is a project aimed at escaping the opacity that arises when erudition and algorithms are conflated.

The result is a vocal score and an acted and written research agenda using photographed objects.

The work includes a site-specific archive intervention (confe-drama), voice, sound installation, and a device for works on paper.