IP33. Counting the incomputable.

Vilanova d'Alcolea, Castellón
The project Counting the Incomputable highlights gestures like kneading or sewing, often rendered invisible, which have been fundamental to the construction of our festivals, collective memory, and forms of cultural resistance. The cultural decline of the poetics of mystery and vitalist sacrifice has made counting the incomputable a difficult task. The incomputable is the inherent mystery revealed in infinite here and now of matter, transfiguring life into death and death into life, light into darkness and darkness into light, in a perpetual cycle of destruction and construction.
This project "is not just a book or a rug, but a political and artistic call to reconsider how we build the common." With a perspective that integrates tradition and contemporary art, the work seeks to open new spaces for collaboration and collective creation, all committed to the challenges of our time.
The project reminds us that, despite the disasters of our present, "children continue to be born, struggles erupt, dangerous festivals persist, and village artists remain devoted to their co-creation." As a popular saying cited in the book text of the project by Rafael Sánchez Mateo:
"The fire has no cold, / the water has no thirst, / the air has no heat, / the bread has no hunger."