POTENTIA GAUDENCI

Welcome to POTENTIA GAUDENCI, a six-episode series that acts as an expanded soundtrack, as sonic echoes and discursive provocations of the exhibition CITISSIMUM ALTISSIMUM FORTISSIMUM.
 

Hosted by Alba Rihe, artist and agitator, this episode is not looking for conclusions.

It’s looking for fire.

Press play. Let the gaudència begin!

This first episode takes the form of an interview and cracks open big questions around media image. How is it built? Who controls it? What does it mean to live inside a GIF, a meme, a stage that never goes dark?
 

That’s why we’re joined by Ladilla Rusa, an emotionally suburban pop parody duo and sharp chroniclers of a reality that makes you laugh and think. With them, we talk about public identity, image culture, aesthetic pressure, and survival mechanisms in the digital spin cycle.

Ladilla Rusa are the first guests of POTENTIA GAUDENCI — an outstanding musical duo mixing sentimental bakalao, neighbourhood storytelling and pop critique, saturated with images, memes, likes and contradictions.

In this episode, Alba Rihe —artist, writer and performer— dives into Ladilla Rusa’s hyperconnected minds to talk frankly about media image, public personas, the anxiety of contemporary speed, and authenticity as a punk act.

An organic interview powered by Frenadol, institutional context, and comfy chairs.

The second installment of POTENTIA GAUDENCI is a poetic meditation in which the body takes center stage in a calm and reflective drift that seeks to shed light on the most intimate landscapes within our bodily ecosystem.

We go down the stairs… and keep going. We enter the gloom until we reach a door so dark the keyhole gets lost in the shadows. But we’re brave, and we open it. Before us unfolds the world of 3rd Gaudenci Power by Alba Rihe — an episode dedicated to the Spectacle, with a capital S.
 

For this podcast, Alba has selected sound fragments from past performances, both solo and with her band Venecia Flúor, where she explores the inner workings of the stage act. Content and reflection go hand in hand, and —as in all of Alba’s creations— humour is the common thread running through every step of the journey.

August’s essence speaks through performance; you’re lying down with a straw hat covering your face, and the sun’s rays filter through the woven straw.

This introduction is a haiku of love to my cunt-temporaries and beloved friends, for letting me make this podcast with them, as their voices shape my own. If we breathe together, everything dances and burns brighter. Gathered here are Irena Visa, Ricardo Cardenas, Alicia Garrido, Sofia Archer, Jaume Clotet, Fito Conesa, Siddharth Gautam, Marina Rubio, and on tech, Matias Rossi.

Second-to-last installment of the POTENTIA GAUDENCI series: we gather around the concept of competitiveness to talk about The Hunger Games and cultural privilege in the context of Barcelona.

We don’t quote the dead — instead, we invite you into our dining room to listen in, because you’ve surely lived through something similar. We all know capitalism tries to alienate us into thinking we’re alone. That’s why — and for so much more — we share instead of compete.

Gathered: Irena Visa, Ricardo Cardenas, Alicia Garrido, Sofia Archer, Jaume Clotet, Fito Conesa, Siddharth Gautam, Marina Rubio, and on tech, Matias Rossi.

Obviously, it's the most experimental of them all. This podcast is infused with the idea of measurement, which here takes the form of a practice tied to running for 30 minutes. The episode is broadcast as a kind of interrelational flesh between thought and matter. That might not sound very appealing at first, but I’ve added several layers to give it substance: on one hand, versions of songs I listened to while running, and on the other, thoughts that came to mind during editing. If you make it to the end, it will all make sense.