Evil is Always Human
Audio:
RWM, Son[i]a #423. José Luis Espejo 20/03/2025. 120 Min., Castellano
The shared history of whales and humans is one of the most popular stories of the 20th century. What for some humans in Europe is an almost mystical fascination, for a few others in the Arctic Circle is a relationship of survival. And this is a relationship that spans millennia. Between the lines of these stories, there is an unexpected narrative about human listening and vision, about our capacity for attention, and about the societies that both cetaceans and humans build.
Evil Is Always Human* is a personal journey that has evolved into both informal and academic research. It is a work in progress that explores the role cetacean bodies have played in shaping contemporary audiovisual culture. At Hangar, we present a new, much longer version, open to participation. It will be an afternoon to pause and listen to cetacean recordings, animated shorts, excerpts from films and texts, as well as music, patents, maps, and paintings.
(20/03/2025) Son[i]a #423. José Luis Espejo Barcelona, Radio Web Macba
(05/02/2025) El mal siempre es humano. Barcelona: Hangar.org
(18/04/2023 – 25/05/2023) Escuchando los océanos I y II, parte del programa Cuando el destino nos alcance: Acciones desesperadas ante la sexta extinción, una colaboración de TBA21 y el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, Auditorio del Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, en el marco De ballenas Wu Tsang
(28/01/2022) El mal siempre es humano. Burgos, Teatro principal, MegaWizard
(15/01/2022) El mal siempre es humano. Madrid: CentroCentro, Un lago de Jade Verde: Parlamento Cosmopolítico
(30/06/2021) José Luis Espejo, Roc Jimenez de Cisneros y los cetáceos odontocetos. Barcelona: L’Automática
(25/09/2021) El mal siempre es humano. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, TEA, Jardín satélite
(27/03/2021) Escuchas humanas y no humanas: José Luis Espejo y Susana Jimenez Carmona. Encuentro Madrd: AVLab, Medialab Prado
(02/10/2018) El mal siempre es humano: Jessica Sarah Rinland y José Luis Espejo. Santiago de Compostela: Festiva Internacional de Cine Curtocircuito, Alrededor del sonido II
* “Evil is unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table” W. H. Auden (1933) Herman Melville
(26/06/2024) ‘La iluminación artificial como medio: Lámparas de aceite en Ámsterdam y Harlem en el siglo XVII’. Comunicación y Sociedad. México, Universidad de Guadalajara
