The Kind of People Who Understand How Things Work

A podast curated by Jorge Luis Marzo featuring María Cañas, Tono Framis, Laura Dantart, Laura Pérez Torrades and Núria Güell
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Episodis disponibles online a través de IVOOX i Spotify.

The Kind of People Who Understand How Things Work is a podcast curated by Jorge Luis Marzo for Santa Mònica Ràdio within the framework of the exhibition The Assault of Illusion (18.03–27.09.2026).

Between March and June, María Cañas, Tono Framis, Laura Dantart, Laura Pérez Torrades and Núria Güell will explain who makes magic possible today and how ridicule works—and how everything is the same thing. Four episodes available online via IVOOX and Spotify. 

With the participation of María Cañas, Tono Framis, Laura Dantart, Laura Pérez Torrades and Núria Güell

Curated by Jorge Luis Marzo 

Technical coordination by Matías Rossi

The Kind of People Who Understand How Things Work #1 – Vigilar y procrastinar, with María Cañas

“Open up your guts, media cannon fodder! This isn’t a podcast, it’s a cultural lobotomy at Santa Mònica. Welcome to the show where we spit in the oil and wipe ourselves with pedigree.

I’m Àuria, the ‘aura cop,’ your worst algorithmic nightmare in the form of a gallery guard. I can smell your fear, your boredom and your mystical dandruff while the security guard on duty burns his retinas with discount porn in the bunker. We’re in The Assault of Illusion, but the only real assault is the one these white cubes full of nothing—with delusions of grandeur—inflict on your sanity.

In this coven of Watching and procrastinating, we bring you:

Uniform mutinies: cold sweat from bargain-bin cops and god-level precarity.

Toilet surrealism: the incident log is the only Bible that doesn’t lie. The ham-and-cheese sandwich is Absolute Truth; everything else is stagecraft.

Living-room terrorism: alarms howling over a fly’s orgasm while the world goes to hell and you stand there staring at a titled rock.

Voice-over: psychotic AIs, hungover algorithms and white noise.

Are you bored? Of course you are! Congratulations, you’re alive! Institutional art causes nausea, drowsiness, and an irresistible urge to rob a lottery office. Get out of here, romantic vandal! If you feel fire in your chest, it’s not Stendhal syndrome—it’s a reality-induced seizure.

Move along –the king is naked and smells of mothballs! If it feels too much, it’s not art, it’s a heart attack. Out into the street!”

An episode by María Cañas with the collaboration of The Dirty Age and Matías Rossi.
Language: Spanish