Public Research Program - I/2025 - On affection

Our first inquiry falls into affection as a field of theoretical and political investigation. We are deeply happy to present a series of objects, encounters, conversations, sonic and performative acts, led by artists and researchers crossing disciplinary boundaries, to explore how feelings and proximity become political, aesthetic, and social material. Affection refers to relational devices: that which moves bodies, shapes communities, and redefines critical thought. Each meeting of PRP-1/2025 becomes part a living archive, gathering documents for a collective lexicon. the program privileges reiterative, participatory approaches that build knowledge through presence.