{"id":352,"date":"2024-05-30T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/?page_id=352"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:03:02","slug":"sometimes-the-fire-gathers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/?page_id=352","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the fire gathers (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/captura-de-pantalla-2020-04-13-a-las-193623.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/captura-de-pantalla-2020-04-13-a-las-193623.jpeg 920w, https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/captura-de-pantalla-2020-04-13-a-las-193623-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/captura-de-pantalla-2020-04-13-a-las-193623-768x480.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sometimes the fire gathers<\/strong> <strong>(#1 The Skies \u2013 Congress Art \u2013 Science, National University of San Mart\u00edn)<\/strong>wit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This action took place at the campus of the National University of San Mart\u00edn, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire, when gathered, involves preparing a campfire with participants from a specific community that includes storytellers or collaborative narrators, participant of the Art-Science gathering and attendants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once gathered around the bonfire, participants are invited to let their imaginations run wild while being hypnotized by the choreography of the flames or the sudden brightness of the sparks. Each participant takes a turn telling stories. During this event, whose theme for the congress was \u201cThe Skies,\u201d I invited participants to imagine new stories about the sky. They wondered what sounds, smells, and tastes corresponded to each representation of the sky, as well as what other names could be given to it. In this piece, I wanted to explore the affective relationship between humans and the sky through imagination. We played with storytellers telling stories of Argentine tribes. Vinciane Despret says, \u201cto imagine is to take things seriously,\u201d and storytelling is a political way of doing so. This action can be repeated by anyone, anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the fire gathers (#1 The Skies \u2013 Congress Art \u2013 Science, National University of San Mart\u00edn)wit This action took place at the campus of the National University of San Mart\u00edn, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2019. Fire, when gathered, involves preparing a campfire with participants from a specific community that includes storytellers or collaborative narrators, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-352","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/352\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}