“Lesson 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… 0”. Amaia Urra

I go forward in leaps, spins and backward steps.

I go forward without going forward.

I hardly advance at all, I go back on my steps, I split, I cast doubt on the path I have chosen, I take three steps forward, I go back on them, I change direction, again I cast doubt on the path I choose, I contradict myself. As soon as I set off I hold back, I stop, I think, I doubt, I get stuck, I get stuck, I get stuck, I give up.

I start again, I try to take several paths at the same time, I go back, I decide on one, I change direction, I get lost, I move in zig-zags, I delay, I go slowly, I take my time, I wander, I ramble, I travel, I turn around, I travel, I take a stroll, I walk.

In the constant search for an affirmation, but not a categorical one. As soon as I manage to affirm something, I feel the need to immediately destabilize it. A friend tells me that to formulate an idea is to set a form that is not exactly truthful and is necessarily partial. As soon as you formulate it you cast doubt on the formulation of it and you would like to go back on it. And that Kierkegaard said “When I speak I express the universal, and when I do not no one can understand me.” He tells me that language is a precise and also clumsy tool, and it deforms because it provides a form.

I THEREFORE INVITE YOU TO SHARE MY WANDERING FOR A MORNING, TO SHARE MY DOUBTS, SOME OF MY AFFIRMATIONS AND THE THINGS I’VE BEEN WORKING ON RECENTCLY. WE’LL BEGIN AT EXACTLY 10.00 WITH A COUNTDOWN. PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE.

Amaia Urra (San Sebastian, 1974). Studied Fine Arts (EHU/UPV. Universidad del País Vasco, 1998), specialising in Sculpture, while also doing contemporary dance lessons. She has worked for and with artists and choreographers whose work interests her, such as Juan Domínguez, Frederic Seguette, Ion Munduate, Jérôme Bel, Olga Mesa and Xavier Le Roy. After taking part in Mugatxoan in 1999 and 2000 she began to create her own works: the videos Desayuno con diamantes and No GoaL; and in staged 2002 her first piece, El Eclipse de A. In 2007-08 she collaborated with Cristina Blanco, Cuqui Jerez and María Jerez on the project The Neverstarting Story.  Since 2009 she has been focusing on her own work, such as the video Time-Wasters, and the 2010 performance La Cosa, presented at different festivals in Europe. In 2012 she presented Desaparezco in Emisión 0- Mugatxoan, at Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián, and Renuncio at Festival In- presentable, La casa encendida, Madrid.