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Itziar Okariz: Gravity (2021)

Fourth session of the study group Itziar Okariz: Trabajar con material (Working with Material). Bulegoa z/b’s space will be open to the public after the working session. The artist has installed materials belonging to Gravity (2022) and some notes for a future fanzine that study group participants are working on: Gravity: Five helium…(Read More)

In 2007/08 I lived in Japan for a CCA Kitakyushu fellowship. I initially wanted to research differences between Japanese and Western aesthetic thought around time and decay. I ended up feeling fascinated by the rich tradition of Japanese food preservation and pickling (Tsukemono). It seemed the act of transforming a raw food into something…(Read More)

Analphabet Orchestra is a project I have been working on for the past two years, which aims to create a common stage for artistic and philosophical interests, and to narrow and interlink the relationship between practice and theory. The dispositif attempts to listen to “famous” songs and try to copy them on instruments without knowing…(Read More)

In 1931, Alfred North Whitehead picked up on the notion of ‘concern’ as it was used by the Quakers, to conceive of a dynamic, provocative, changing relationship between subject and object. Using this reference, Whitehead was able to propose sensitive relationships as the basis for structuring experience, which is only cognitively organised into a concrete…(Read More)

Translation is the title of my current research project. The practice of this research is located in the intersection of different intentions within the framework of performances by three artists. The limited framework of the three pieces, and the action of revisiting them, aim to liberate new spaces for working in. The three performances are…(Read More)

I propose to use particular interests within a sculptural focus to approach audiovisual works of a markedly performative nature. Specific works by artists including Jon Mikel Euba, Sandra Cuesta, Iñaki Garmendia, Inazio Escudero and Elena Aitzkoa have anchored and articulated research for my forthcoming dissertation. Currently, I am trying to pick out and to…(Read More)

African Independence movements of the 60s had already demonstrated that after the visible symbols of colonialism were removed —settlers and military— a lot remained to be done in order to gain a sustainable freedom. This struggle would imply the rise of radical theory and a political practice that would refuse to follow methods and models…(Read More)

17:00 – 21:00 The aim of this seminar is to introduce the concept of theatricality in society and contemporary art practices, and thus discuss the possibility of a dissident theatricality. In order to do this, we will briefly cover the various ways in which theatre has come out of itself, and how other artistic…(Read More)