DRIVING, DREAMING, DRIFTING
19 Feb – 25 Mar 2026
Opening February 19, 2026
With a performance by Natalia Domínguez
Artists: Natalia Domínguez and Paco Ladrón de Guevara
Curated by: Marenka Krasomil
ECHO: DRIVING, DREAMING, DRIFTING
19 Feb – 25 March 2026
Driving, Dreaming, Drifting focuses on the impact of the automobile on the environment and the city. The project originated in Stuttgart and brings what was experienced, learned, and discovered there to Brussels and Barcelona in the form of echoes. This polyphony, unfolding across different temporal and spatial levels, seeks to create a cross-border artistic dialogue.
In Barcelona, Natalia Domínguez and Paco Ladrón de Guevara continue the processes begun in Stuttgart or translate them into new forms. While the first part centered on the theme of air, the echoes foregrounds the interplay of bodies, natural resources, and patriarchal dominances, which can be subsumed under the concept of petromasculinity. Central to the project throughout is an engagement with public space, its social hierarchies, and mechanisms of exclusion. From queer-feminist perspectives that emphasize fluidity, corporeality, and collective participation, the works presented develop alternative ways of thinking toward greater justice and inclusivity.
An accompanying publication brings together texts, research, interviews, and artistic works, with contributions by Camila Cañeque, Cara New Daggett, Natalia Domínguez, Julia Hainz, Arnau Horta, Paco Ladrón de Guevara, Kenza Lansari and Hannah Lyssens, Marenka Krasomil, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.), Jasmin Schädler, and Selma Selman.
At the opening on 13 February, Natalia Domínguez presents the second part of her performance RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER. The voices and bodies of three performers enter into dialogue with mechanical residues; breaths, hums, and echoes form a sonic composition.
WORKS
RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER
By Natalia Domínguez
Video documentation, colour, sound, 11:55 min, 2025
The performative work of artist Natalia Domínguez examines the connection between masculinity, sound and collective identity. Car engines and industrial noise have historically been associated with strength, progress, and dominance. The project examines how these sonic codes continue to shape the cultural imagination around technology. The title refers to the sound of an engine idling (ralentí) alluding to the practices of motorsports, where sound becomes an acoustic statement and performative moment of masculinity, power and control. In an experimental composition with five performers and a car, human voices enter into dialogue with engine noises: both as a sonic intervention, a political gesture, and a polyphonic choral.
A performance by: Natalia Domínguez
Sound production: Servei and Natalia Domínguez
Choreography: Natalia Domínguez, Stella Covi, Bar Gonen, Pauline Michel, Julian Sturz, Lem TragNguyen
Performers: Stella Covi, Bar Gonen, Pauline Michel, Julian Sturz, Lem TragNguyen
Camera: Florian Siegert
Editing and post-production: Alina Ozerova
Ralentí ticking over, Natalia Domínguez, 2025_ CURRENT_Kunst und urbaner Raum © Luzie Marquardt
RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER
Performance, 19/2/2026
As part of an ongoing investigation, artist Natalia Domínguez examines the relationship between masculinity, sound, and collective identity. RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER unfolds as a two-part performance. The first part was realised in Stuttgart in the context of Driving Dreaming Drifting, where five performers interacted with a car in public space.
In Barcelona, the second part of RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER shifts focus. Rather than confronting the car as a whole, the performance gradually dissolves its image by fragmenting it. Two performers engage with individual components of a vehicle, foregrounding a more intimate and embodied relationship with the machine. Here, the body becomes the support structure: holding, activating, and re-signifying the object. Human voices enter into dialogue with mechanical residues; breaths, hums, and echoes are forming a sonic composition.
Performers: Lucía Flores, Silvia Galí and Maria Oliver
Sound and performative assistance: Mar García and Javier Soler
Sound production: Servei and Natalia Domínguez
Autopsy of a Soft Wreck / BBY CNT U SEE?
By Paco Ladrón de Guevara
Video, 16:40 min., colour, sound, 2025
Autopsy of a Soft Wreck / BBY CNT U SEE? is a video work by Paco Ladrón de Guevara, produced as part of the performance of the same title for the project Driving, Dreaming, Drifting and presented within the framework of Current – Kunst und Urbaner Raum in Stuttgart. Situated at the intersection of performance, moving image, and choreographic research, the work examines the accident as both an aesthetic and cultural constellation.
Through the use of pop-cultural references, the video unfolds a tension between desire, danger, and mediated visibility. Karaoke settings, autopsy reports, and AI-generated scenarios serve as points of departure for newly written, speculative texts and corporeal images. The body is not conceived as an objectifiable whole but as a fragmented, discursively produced surface. Accordingly, the accident is approached not as an endpoint but as a process of transformation. The work foregrounds a condition suspended between pleasure and injury, control and loss of control, in which normative notions of wholeness and stability are called into question. The video concludes with archival footage of family gatherings from the artist’s personal archive, creating a link between lived past experience, the origin of ideas, and the fictional potential of the present.
Direction and choreography: Paco Ladrón de Guevara
Text assistance: Tyler Cunningham
Music production and mix: Yannick Schroth
Music Production: BIGOTE
Autopsy of a Soft Wreck BBY CNT U SEE Paco Ladrón de Guevara 2025_ CURRENT_Kunst und urbaner Raum © Dominique Brewing
Driving, Dreaming, Drifting is a project by Art Public Space – Culture Matters gUG as part of CURRENT – ART AND URBAN SPACE CURRENT – ART AND URBAN SPACE in collaboration with Centre Cívic Sant – Andreu Districte de Sant Andreu, Fabra i Coats. Fàbrica de Creaciò Barcelona, and Recyclart in Brussels.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media)
ECHO: DRIVING, DREAMING, DRIFTING
19. Feb – 25. März 2026
Driving, Dreaming, Drifting richtet den Blick auf den Einfluss des Automobils auf Umwelt und Stadt. Seinen Ausgangspunkt nahm das Projekt in Stuttgart und bringt das Erfahrene, Gelernte und Entdeckte in Form von Echos nach Brüssel und Barcelona. Diese Vielstimmigkeit, auf zeitlich und räumlich unterschiedlichen Ebenen, möchte einen grenzübergreifenden künstlerischen Dialog schaffen.
In Barcelona setzen Natalia Domínguez und Paco Ladrón de Guevara die in Stuttgart begonnene Prozesse fort oder bringen sie in neue Formen. Während im ersten Teil das Thema Luft eine zentrale Rolle spielte, tritt im Echo das Zusammenspiel von Körpern, natürlichen Ressourcen und patriarchalen Dominanzen in den Vordergrund, die unter dem Begriff der Petromaskulinität zusammengefasst werden können. Zentral und projektübergreifend bleibt die Auseinandersetzung mit dem öffentlichen Raum, seinen sozialen Hierarchien und Ausschlussmechanismen. Aus queer-feministischen Perspektiven, die Fluidität, Körperlichkeit und kollektive Teilhabe betonen, entwickeln die gezeigten Arbeiten alternative Denkansätze, hin zu mehr Gerechtigkeit und Inklusivität.
Eine begleitenden Publikation bringt Texte, Recherchen, Interviews und künstlerische Arbeiten zusammen, mit Beiträgen von Camila Cañeque, Cara New Daggett, Natalia Domínguez, Julia Hainz, Arnau Horta, Paco Ladrón de Guevara, Kenza Lansari und Hannah Lyssens, Marenka Krasomil, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.), Jasmin Schädler und Selma Selman.
Zur Eröffnung am 19. Februar zeigt Natalia Domínguez den zweiten Teil ihrer Performance RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER. Stimmen und Körper dreier Performer*innen treten in einen Dialog mit mechanischen Rückständen; Atemzüge, Summen und Echos formen eine klangliche Komposition.
Driving, Dreaming, Drifting ist ein Projekt von Art Public Space – Culture Matters gUG im Rahmen von CURRENT – KUNST UND URBANER RAUM, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Centre Cívic Sant Andreu – Districte de Sant Andreu, Fabra i Coats. Fàbrica de Creació Barcelona und Recyclart in Brüssel.
Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.