Culos inquietos, infinitos asientos - Federico L. Silvestre

Jimmy Durham used to say that chairs delimit our bodies in order to become essential, and that architecture —the holy spirit of a ghostly and elusive entity linked to the state— was in charge of inventing them. In the same way, hundreds of artists and writers have been showing us for decades the role of the most restless asses in the struggle against structures and seats, trying to remind us in a thousand ways of what we all have below. How, then, to tell the story of the libertarian asses that set up the artistic P2 Lodge, rising up against so much oppression? Obviously, with a certain tact and remarkable attention. That, and no other, is the aim of this book; that, and its paradoxical lesson: that, just as the pearl proceeds in the oyster from the mud, so beauty is sometimes related to the anus. 

Federico L. Silvestre

Professor of Aesthetics and Art History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Author of the books El paisaje virtual, Os límites da paisaxe, A emerxencia da paisaxe (published by Biblioteca Nueva, 2004, 2008 and 2009), Micrologías (Abada, 2012), Los pájaros y el fantasma (Universidad de Salamanca, 2013) and Culos inquietos infinitos asientos (Ediciones Asimétricas, 2018). He has edited books by such notable authors as Raffaele Milani, Jean-Marc Besse, Gilles A. Tiberghien, K. G. Schelle, and Michel Onfray. He directed or co-directed the collections Paisaje y teoría of Biblioteca Nueva and Vita Aesthetica of Díaz & Pons, as well as the Master in Contemporary Art, Museology and Criticism of the USC (2007-2012). He is principal investigator from 2020 and 2021 of the international projects: YUCUNET of the EACEA (EU) and DEPARQ of the MICINN (Spanish Government). 

Xiana Cobo

Illustrator and graphic designer. Graduate in Design and Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela, she works in the fashion industry, specialising in prints and surface design. She develops her most personal project under the pseudonym Walter & Gradiva, with which she has published the album La terrible historia de Miros Gombrowicz (2014).