<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>New podcast: Interview with Matt Mullican</b><br></span></font><br>Through
 a series of practices designed to examine all the folds and 
psychological strata of the real, Matt Mullican circles around notions 
such as virtuality, cosmology, subjectivity, and the idea of a memory 
theatre. In FONS AUDIO #36 he tells us about life on the other side of 
the mirror, explains different ways of handling a corpse, and talks 
about the mind’s endless capacity to create imaginary or parallel 
worlds.<font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:10px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br><br></span>Link:  <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/matt-mullican/capsula">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/matt-mullican/capsula<br></a></span></font></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Text: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20151028/Fons36_eng.pdf">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20151028/Fons36_eng.pdf</a><br></span></font></span><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br><br>Using
 both autobiographical strategies and complex systems for classifying 
the world, Matt Mullican (Santa Monica, California, 1951) explores the 
different ways in which subjectivity manufactures and organises reality.
 His work is an architecture of practices built up over the years, 
assembled with different languages such as drawing, video, installation,
 architecture, and performance. The desire to enter images –to break 
through the surface of matter so that content can become inhabitable 
space– is a key to understanding his early performances under hypnosis, 
the emergence of characters such as the stick figure Glenn, and his 
groundbreaking city simulation and virtual reality projects.<span class=""> </span></span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">&#39;M.I.T.
 Project&#39; (1990-2009), a work from the MACBA Collection, began as a 
spatial adaptation of one of Mullican’s cosmologies. It consists of a 
quasi-architectural three-dimensional space divided into five 
compartments, with a series of objects systematically arranged in each, 
as in a cabinet of curiosities. Each section is organised according to a
 colour code. The green zone is &#39;the elemental world&#39;, for example, 
containing minerals, mounted butterflies, embalmed animals, and a human 
skeleton. The red zone, symmetrically opposite, is &#39;the subjective&#39; 
realm and sets up a kind of ideal polar opposite in which there is no 
matter, only pure meaning. The three remaining spaces are like steps 
from form to content, and focus on the in-between stages of &#39;the iconic&#39;
 (black and white), &#39;the world framed&#39; (yellow) and &#39;the world unframed&#39;
 (blue), which includes a giant flag, a steam engine, and a boiler.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Mullican&#39;s
 work runs through him in first person. He uses himself as a medium, 
while keeping his distance from simple biographical dramatisation. He 
approaches his unconscious as a found object. In the videos &#39;Matt 
Mullican under hypnosis&#39; (1996) and &#39;Untitled -Matt Mullican under 
hypnosis: Zurich&#39; (2003), also in the MACBA Collection, he goes on stage
 and improvises under the effects of a hypnotist. Over the years, this 
recurring practice led to the emergence of “that person”, a multifaceted
 entity of indefinite age and gender, a lover of beauty, coffee, and 
everyday rituals who has the capacity to disrupt any taxonomy or 
rational ordering system.<span class=""> </span></span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Timeline</b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">00:34</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class=""> </span>Caves</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">02:25</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class=""> </span>&#39;M.I.T. Project&#39;</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">12:15</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class=""> </span>That person</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">19:47</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class=""> </span>Going into the mirror</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">25:52</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class=""> </span>Cadaver</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">27:52</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class=""> </span>I will never forget this</span></font></span></div></div>