Valencia Community Museums Consortium Announces Black Audio-Visual Call
The Valencia Community Museums Consortium (CMCV) hosts the Black project of the Call for audiovisual exhibition proposals presented at Las Cigarreras Cultural Center. For a second consecutive year it will select projects to be shown in the Black Audio-Visual Room of the White Box. The call remains open until 30 June 2022 and is open to natural persons, legal entities, artists, and curators, whether local or national. Two proposals will be chosen and each project will receive a total of €3,400.
The infinite verticality of parchment and rhizomatic ideas anchor the two axes that guide the Scroll through this call. These are the thematic centers for exploration and presentation within the program.
“The scroll is offered as an invitation to explore through artistic practice the gap between seemingly innocent technophilia and the dark dystopias of technophobia. It challenges binary thinking, which forces reality into opposing, hierarchical categories,” state Alicia Escobio and Maite Muñoz, authors of the curatorial text from Vista Oral.
José Luis Pérez Pont, director of the Museums Consortium, reflects on the quality of works from the first edition and adds that this second call is a meaningful opportunity to continue supporting rising talent from Alicante and beyond. The project highlights new technologies and interactive narratives presented in their most experimental form within a renowned space like Las Cigarreras. The commitment is to contribute to the cultural vibrancy of Alicante by embracing new artistic expressions.
About the Scroll
In the inaugural call of 2021, three projects explored diverse concepts and material sources, bringing together the works of ten artists. The Negre room transformed with every project to host three installations unified by their experimental nature and the presence of artists from the international contemporary scene. The installations included Allò que s escolta des que un cos deixa d’estar al seu eix saved the fins, a collaboration between Mar Reykjavyk and Adina L. Velázquez; blue background by Mon Cano and Inigo Barron; and This time is not typical by The Lava Art Project with María Alcaide, Kara Gut, Yosi Negrín, and Jannis Zell.
About Negre
Negre forms the core of Todo Bien’s exhibition programming, housed in the Negre audiovisual room at Las Cigarreras. The project uses the space to exhibit, experiment, and disseminate contemporary art projects that push the boundaries of audiovisual practice. Negre also aims to support new creators working with audiovisual media, providing conditions that facilitate the display and dissemination of their projects inside and outside the Las Cigarreras Cultural Center.