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Ontological Cannibalism * Jurisdictional Syntax

An ontology is not declared; it is metabolised into existence. It emerges when a practice ceases merely to produce works and begins to organise the conditions under which works can exist. In this sense, LAPIEZA and Socioplastics are not parallel projects but two evolutionary phases within a single expanding organism. LAPIEZA—the Piece—announces its ambition in its very name: it absorbs. Across 2,200 numbered entries and 186 series, it has ingested exhibitions, installations, pedagogical experiments, architectural reflections, performative gestures, and curatorial formats. It has demonstrated amphibious capacity: art-space, urban space, institutional collaboration, independent initiative. It is visibly all-terrain. Yet precisely because of this plastic omnivorousness, it remained gravitationally inclined toward the art field. However expansive, it still circulated primarily within a recognisable cultural niche.


The Shifting Topology



LAPIEZA emerged first, in 2009, as a physical gallery-hybrid in Madrid's Malasaña neighbourhood, co-founded with Esther Lorenzo. Its initial function was relational hosting: a space where artists could encounter one another, where works could be installed and experienced, where the social dynamics that socioplastics theorised could be tested in material conditions. The gallery format provided concentration, intensity, the friction of co-presence. But LAPIEZA was never only a gallery. Its programming—the numbered series, the unstable installations, the hybrid onsite-online formats—already contained the logic that would later explode the container, rendering the physical space unnecessary by distributing its functions across networked platforms. The numerical series documents what the work produced. The platforms reveal how the work organised itself to sustain that production across seventeen years. LAPIEZA, ARTNATIONS, FRESH MUSEUM, YOUTUBE BREAKFAST, URBANAS, the primary Socioplastics repository, the constellation of satellite blogs bearing distinct editorial identities—these are not successive iterations of a single idea but a differentiated platform ecology, each node assuming specific functions within a growing system that has accumulated rather than replaced.


The Workshop as a Gravitational Node * Materializing the Socioplastic Mesh through Embodied Praxis

 


The "Socioplastic Mesh" project, a sprawling network of interlinked blogs and theoretical entries, represents a formidable achievement in digital conceptual art, constructing an autonomous epistemic universe concerned with urban metabolism, semantic sovereignty, and decolonial world-building. However, its most profound theoretical challenge—and its most promising frontier—lies in its potential translation from a textual and hypertextual archive into a space of embodied, collective praxis. The recent publication of a critical meta-essay within the Mesh’s own nodal structure (Lloveras, 2026) signals a moment of self-reflexivity, a point from which the project can consciously perform its own core tenets. The proposed development of workshops is not merely an additive program but a critical necessity for the Mesh's evolution; it is the means by which its abstract "relational repair" and "insurgent cartography" can be tested against the unruly materiality of social space and human interaction. To remain solely in the digital realm would risk confirming a critique often levelled at the most arcane systems theory: that it becomes a self-referential closed circuit, a sovereign territory so perfectly defended that it admits no new citizens. Workshops, therefore, become the "tactical urbanism" of the Mesh itself, the physical infiltrations that seek to transform its gravitational pull from a theoretical force into a social one.

SHOW #82 *****___________*************** PALMTREE




1061 SUPERMARKET ::::::::::::::::::...:
1062 GREEN BRIEFCASE **************...*
1063 GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE **********...
1064 GREEN DAY ********************...*
1065 EL INTRUSO THIRST_________..._2017
1066 EMPTY LOT SERIES **********...****
1067 TAKE A BOAT *****************...**
1068 MOUTH / STRIPES NOT BUREN *...****
1069 FLAG SERIES ****************...***
1070 TERRACE AND VIEW ::::::::::::...::















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1044 EL INTRUSO - SED ==============================
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1046 MOUSE AND SWORD - PAULA LLOVERAS ==============
1047 BOZIC - ANOTHER GREEN DAY =====================
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1049 FEIJOO - ARTES VIVAS - IDEA MATADERO ==========
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1082 TWIN HOUSES NORWAY /// THEWOODWAY //
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1085 SANDSCAPES CÁDIZ EL INTRUSO ////////
1086 MEAT 270 MADRID ////////////////////
1087 INVITATION /////////////////////////
1088 POSTORY MADRID /////////////////////
1089 ORANGE SCULPTURES //////////////////
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