Valencia Community Museums Consortium, Alicante this Friday meeting with artists Open Studios, where projects selected in the 2023 Cultura Resident artistic production residency program are developed will take place between 18:00 and 21:00 Access is free by pre-registering with the people responsible for the four projects using a variety of artistic languages, such as fashion, digital art, performing arts or architecture.
This open studio has open meetings short-term presentations held adjacent to the residences, in which residents demonstrate their work processes through installations, inter-expert talks where they describe how projects are developed and share their experiences on the Resident Culture, materials, and results.
“Open Studios showcases the creative process and end result of all the work carried out at the Cultura Resident residences and provides an opportunity to appreciate the quality of the projects developed and the imprint of the creators. We supported the calls for Cultura Resident from the Consorci de Museus in 2017 as the first regional art residences program to be at the forefront in the Spanish State due to the size of the project and the conditions it offers. “They are residents,” says José Luis Pérez Pont, director of the Consorci de Museus and Center del Carme.
Four production projects in Las Cigarreras
In the decision of November 2022, four production projects were selected for development at Las Cigarreras in Alicante: Alum, Alum, Alumrelated to android mane (Andrea Martínez Fernández) and The seven political allegories of Pílbara related to Studio of GreatnessIt will be developed over four months led by Jorge Valiente Oriol and Amaia Sánchez Velasco; Moreover Echo Positionsrelated to Lauren MoffattAnd Twicerelated to moh studio (Conchi Rodríguez Martínez), with a two-month residence permit.
- Twice by Möh Studio (conchi rodriguez martinez) in Box S1 at 18:00. about a game-inspired fashion collection and its importance in human development and culture, and for costumes it was made with fabrics from one of the old fabric factories. Dolls from the state of AlicanteIt closed in the 1990s when companies moved production to China.
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Then, at 18:45, it will be your turn. Alum, Alum, Alumby Android Mane (Andrea Martinez) In Box S2, the third episode of a series stage projects Drawing on visual compositions and texts, they address themes such as time, violence, the impact of the internet, the collapse of privacy, social events and their impact on daily life, or a sense of imminent disaster. They share pets such as dogs, cats, and in this case goldfish, as eyewitnesses of our civilization, they also live together. Artist will present in Open Studio installation of the main stage of workas well as light, audio-visual and sound adjustment. It also includes models of the rest of the scenarios, different audio-visual materials, costumes, important objects and a mental map of what the process was, references etc. “Throughout these years, I’ve been testing different process rhythms and different process rhythms, and I’ve realized a little bit about the type of suit that suits me best. And this is how I feel in this guesthouse: Alum, Alum, Alum He’s going through the kind of process he needs and I need too,” comments Melena Androide.
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At 19:30, the Grandeza Studio team, led by Jorge Valiente Oriol and Amaia Sánchez Velascowill present The seven political allegories of Pílbara A work that participated in the 18th Venice Biennale Architettura 2023, organized under the motto. Laboratory of the Future, curated by architect Lesley Lokko. about one artistic-architectural research project Taking the opportunity presented by the energy paradigm shift, which started in Australia in 2021 and taking the Australian Pilbara region as a reference, it addresses the opportunity to put into crisis the exploitative, colonial and capitalist mythologies that cause globalization. climate collapse. “Having support mechanisms for culture and the arts is essential for democracy, sectors that are otherwise subject to animal precarity and exploitation. The development needed to reach the quality standards required by an event that features the Venice Architecture Biennale,” they state of Grandeza Studio.
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presentation Echo Positionsrelated to Lauren MoffattCaixa Zero and the outside garden, will close the meeting. Based on the observation of urban bats using video game techniques and augmented reality, the project examines intelligences and overlooked entities in a broader perspective. Increases the use of new technologies to visualize them in shared urban spaces. “The project has changed quite a bit in the context of Alicante and the need to move around the urban area to find out how bats live, especially in the airspace here. It opened up some perspectives on the story I’m trying to tell and the resources I can get. I’ll use that to tell, some I hope to share on Friday,” Moffatt says.
About the Cultura Resident program
Introduced in 2017 by the Valencian Community of Museums Consortium, Inhabited Culture is one of the largest and most comprehensive programs at the national level targeting intermediaries connected with contemporary creation. The program supports Suggestions for experimentation and innovation in the field of intellectual and artistic creation and production who are in the process of being researched and who require a support for their production or who work in particular contexts or communities.
For more information about Alicante Open Studio, visit https://www.consorcimuseus.gva.es/actividades/open-studios-alicante-2/?lang=es.