Reading groups 2014-15, THE CONTRACT
At the final reading session in EL CONTRATO, Ricardo Basbaum will be presenting his draft for the contract with institutions hosting Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?. The project will be presented in AlhóndigaBilbao’s Bastida Hall in conversation with Lourdes Fernández, the director of the centre. Would you like…(Read More)
Conference and performative activities, THE CONTRACT
Agency calls forth Thing 002115 (Promenades en Pays Basque) from its ‘list of things’ for EL CONTRATO exhibition in AlhóndigaBilbao. Thing 002115 (Promenades en Pays Basque) concerns a dispute between Les Ballets Basques Oldarra de Biarritz and Europa Est over the record Promenades en Pays Basque. The album included recordings of interpretations of folk…(Read More)
Scenic, THE CONTRACT
On a screen on one side of the room is the first scene in film history: Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (Louis Lumière, 1895): workers leaving the factory as the audience enter the theatre. While the actors develop the manifold forms of dissolution of the working subject before the audience, we…(Read More)
Scenic, THE CONTRACT
Joseph Beuys’ How to Explain Painting to a Dead Hare performance (1965), paraphrased in the title of this work, gives the piece its conceptual structure. It is a speculative choreographic piece on some of the key ideas underlying the definition of contemporary dance. It also makes us wonder how the dance would be seen, rather…(Read More)
Conference and performative activities, THE CONTRACT
“For the last five years, I’ve been looking at notions of the image and visual language, because they take you to the body and its capacity to perform. These ideas give me a way to think about the body and performing or staging at the same time. I’ve been working in my research…(Read More)
Conference and performative activities, THE CONTRACT
Zoom out; dream diary consists in the fragmented reading aloud of a text, an extract from a dream diary that the artist will be keeping during the period of the exhibition. Repetitively, in each reading of the diary, the last word of the text is added to by the previous one, so that the text…(Read More)
THE CONTRACT
A film programme will run parallel to EL CONTRATO exhibition. The programme is divided into eight sections, and includes some of the films studied during the reading sessions that took place at AlhóndigaBilbao in 2013 and 2014 and led to this exhibition. All films will be screened with subtitles in Spanish. 5 November, 2014…(Read More)
THE CONTRACT
Del 5 de noviembre de 2014 al 15 de enero de 2015 En 2013, recibimos la invitación de AlhóndigaBilbao para desarrollar un proyecto de colaboración. Respondimos con EL CONTRATO, una residencia de dos años. A lo largo del primer año, pusimos en marcha un grupo de lectura en torno a…(Read More)
Scenic, THE CONTRACT
“Last Wednesday, a Ministry of Finance employee named R.S. abandoned his family. His wife insisted on her right to know who was holding him. But R.S.’s disappearance was not only a tragedy for those close to him; it was a complete lack of respect for citizens.” Rabih Mroué presents a play based…(Read More)