Pensar con las manos (Thinking with the Hands)

The question of the origin of thought and of language – and therefore the question of the origin of what it is to be human – is closely linked to the ability acquired by the hand to make precise gestures. Thought and gesture have always gone hand in hand, so to speak. They even share what is beyond them: just as the manual gesture leaves behind it the mark of its inexactness, the word leaves its trace in its enunciation – what is said will never be identical to what is thought. An idea by Asier Mendizabal with Patricia Esquivias, Lisa Tan and Johanna Gustafsson Fürstin, in which they will put visual arts together with dialogue over two days.

The second session sets up a dialogue between the work shared by Asier Mendizabal and Johanna Gustafsson Fürst at the sculpture department of KKH, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, and in projects like Manual, a series of publications derived from their thought process about sculpture, teaching and art, and learning these gestures.

Pensar con las manos. A talk by Asier Mendizabal

I Bite My Nails to Reach a Softer Surface to the World. A talk byJohanna Gustafsson Fürst.

These talks will be followed by a conversation between Mendizabal and Gustafsson Fürst in which they will present their publishing project Manual, before joining in with the dialogue with Lisa Tan and Patricia Esquivias.