Carlos Colás González

His practice departs from autoethnographic research, social and cultural archaeology, archiving, and different writing processes that can be translated into performances and installations. Through them Carlos researches the notion of humanity as political beings, economic systems and power structures, as well as material conditions, microeconomies, urban landscapes, alienation and cultural hegemony.

For the Graduation Show, Carlos is presenting ‘Orangeland. Chapter 3 & 4: Import & Consumption'. "Orangeland" is a travel that starts with the harvest of oranges in faraway locations, such as Egypt, Italy, Morocco, Perú, South Africa, Spain or Zimbabwe and ends in Arnhem. However, in these two chapters, he centers the spotlight in the last steps of the process. The artist uses the boxes from the distribution companies that end up discarded as waste across the city as a first-hand information source and tool to discover and understand these tangible connections and the invisible labor behind a globalized economy. 

Under the umbrella of this project Carlos is unveiling two performances “Sit & Sip” and “Formes de menjar la taronja” (“Ways of eating the orange”). This last one co-authored with Ana Arbona Bolufer and Eva Arbona Bolufer. Both actions are representations of situations experienced by the performers in which the fruit is presented not only as the result of an import chain and market product through hospitality and home consumption but as a bearer of different customs between producer and receiver societies.