Performances 2020
Blueproject Foundation brings its 2020 programme to a close with the presentation of three performance projects: Vain, by Rubiane Maia, and _hacia el sporte [towards sporte] by Laura Ramírez and Andrea Zavala Folache, both selected in the most recent call for projects, and Ninguna mano es una isla [No Hand is an Island], by Laura Llaneli and Julián Pacomio.
Vain will be emitted in streaming from the United Kingdom, where Brazilian artist Rubiane Maia resides, as the current circumstances impede her from traveling to Barcelona for her residency. The project has been adapted to this new situation and will be presented on 3 December at 7pm (CET), followed by a conversation between the artist and the public. Streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3hspGOG4WU
The two other performances will take place at the Foundation, with limited capacity; pre-registration is necessary and all corresponding health measures apply. Ninguna mano es una isla by Laura Llaneli and Julián Pacomio will be presented on Saturday 12 December, while _hacia el sporte, by Laura Ramírez and Andrea Zavala Folache, will be presented on Saturday 19 December, both held at 7pm. Reservations should be made in advance at: info@blueprojectfoundation.org.
* The performance by Laura Ramírez and Andrea Zavala has been called for personal reasons.
Information on the projects and the artists:
Vain
Composition no. 2
Thursday December 3, 7pm
Link to streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3hspGOG4WU
Vain is an experimental action based on the manipulation of different rusty metal objects that have holes and/or are tube shaped. Most of the pieces were collected in an important geological area in South East England, a place where nature and biodiversity merge with numerous vestiges of human interventions from other times. Above all, the core of this proposal is in this sensory contact with inorganic matter in a state of decomposition, which in its singularity is able to retain fragments of memory from a non-human point of view. The choice of focusing on empty spaces (openings or holes) in/side solid blocks comes from the intention of working with gaps that function as ‘portals’; intermediate zones that mark the passage, transfer and propagation of hidden and secret ‘information’. The inside and the outside. Through gesture and physical contact with these objects, the performance seeks to establish a significant communicative link between two bodies—one human and the other inanimate—through sound. This is a channeling exercise, facilitating the emergence of certain frequencies, vibrations and sounds.
Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian visual artist based in Folkestone, UK and Vitoria, Brazil. She has a degree in Visual Arts and a Master’s Degree in Institutional Psychology from Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Her artwork is a hybrid practice moving across performance, video, installation and text, while occasionally flirting with drawing and collage. In 2015 she took part in the workshop Cleaning the House, with Marina Abramovic, and participated in the exhibition Terra Comunal - Marina Abramovic + MAI, at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, with the long-duration performance The Garden (2 months). In the same year she produced her first short film, EVO, which premiered at the 26th Festival Internacional de São Paulo and 22nd Festival de Cinema de Vitória. In 2016 she worked on the project entitled Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Desert and the Mountain, which required her to travel to the high-altitude landscapes of Uyuni (Bolivia), Pico da Bandeira (Espírito Santo/Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Monte Roraima (Roraima, Brazil/Santa Helena de Uyarén, Venezuela). In the same year she completed her second short film, entitled ÁDITO. Since 2018 she has been working on the creation of a book-performance, a series of actions devised in response to specific autobiographical texts.
Ninguna mano es una isla
Laura Llaneli and Julián Pacomio
12 December, 7pm
Il Salotto, Blueproject Foundation
Two unsettled pairs of hands try to find the gaps in other hands. Wrinkled skin comes into contact with dry skin. Water, as it waits, thickens, making contactless connections more discernible. The island is heard, it resonates, it becomes a word. Ninguna mano es una isla is a vindication of touch. A performance on haptic potential. A concert that takes place when hands reach out and apply strong pressure. Blood palpitating on your fingertips. A conduction of the sonorous through humidity and wetness.
Laura Llaneli (Granada, 1986) va cursar estudis musicals i una diplomatura en Disseny Gràfic. Llicenciada en Belles Arts i amb un Màster en Art Sonor per la Universitat de Barcelona, és membre de Sons de Barcelona, del col·lectiu Nenazas i del grup de música Pradera. Entre els seus premis destaquen Art For Change 2019 (”la Caixa”), Premi Miquel Casablancas 2018, Premi Embarrat 2017 i Barcelona Producció 2014. Ha exposat a Casaplan (Valparaíso, Xile), Swinton & Grant (Madrid), ADN Platform ADN Galería (Sant Cugat del Vallès), galeria àngels barcelona, MMSU (Croàcia), Art3 (França), Lo Pati (Amposta) i Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona), entre d’altres. A més, ha fet residències a Casa de Velázquez, Art3 Valence, Lo Pati, Balada, MMSU Rijeka, Estruch Sabadell i Hangar Barcelona. Actualment treballa a l’espai Salamina.
With his performance projects, Julián Pacomio (Mérida, 1986) explores the idea of the copy, remakes, translation and the appropriation of alien materials. He has collaborated with the choreographer Ángela Millano on the research project Asleep Images, which is comprised of the pieces Make It, Don’t Fake It (2019) and PSYCHO (2020), with residences at Tabakalera (San Sebastian), La Caldera (Barcelona), Atelier Real (Lisbon), Desfoga (Cambados) and S’ALA (Sassari). He has presented El mundo bajo el mundo (2017) and Espacio hacedor (2016) in collaboration with the architect Miguel del Amo, as part of the artist residency programme at La Casa Encendida/CA2M, in Leal.Lav (Tenerife) and at the Festival Fringe Madrid, as well as My Turin Horse (2012), at Matadero Madrid. Since 2017 he has worked in Lisbon with the choreographer João Fiadeiro on From Afar It Was an Island, De perto, uma pedra and O Qué Fazer Daqui Para Trás. He collaborates with choreographers such as Luis Garay (Colombia), Daniel Pizamiglio (Brazil-Portugal) Annika Pannitto (Italy) and Carolina Campos (Brazil), amongst others. In 2020 he was part of Forum Dança PACAP (Performing Arts Advanced Program), curated by João dos Santos Martins in Lisbon. Pacomio is the curator of NO NO NO SOLO SOLO NO, a performance program for the Sala Amadís at INJUVE (Madrid). In 2021 he will present the exhibition Contemplar una superficie inestable, curated together with Ignacio de Antonio Antón, winner of the open call Inéditos 2021. He is currently working on the piece Apocalipsis entre amigos o el día simplemente, which will be seen at Barcelona’s La Capella in 2021. He lives in Madrid and Lisbon.
_hacia el sporte
Laura Ramírez and Andrea Zavala Folache
19 December, 7pm
Il Salotto, Blueproject Foundation
**Cancelled
Laura and Andrea came together after both had developed careers in the performing arts, with the shared idea that dance and choreography are tools for change—on a personal and political level—in contemporary art practice. For them, change involves seeking to shift the idea of two individual subjects towards collective feminist practice, which is sustained thanks to mutual support within difference, and flux, understood as action and the result of influencing without controlling outcomes. Together they believe that learning to disappear means ceding the space to something important, which arises more as a function of their relationship and less of themselves as consumable identities. As practitioners of sporte, they begin by taking the tools of physical awareness and movement in their experience as choreographers and performers, as they train disappearance. They decide that training is a term which in sport is guided by the entire coaching team to activate the moment, including the logic of the game that the spectator learns when going to watch. They create (or at least insistently seek to do so) a sport of disappearing in dancing “towards” this goal, since this very “towards” leads to a dance whose aim is to sustain effort. In this way, and simultaneously, they prepare the public’s experience as a collaborative game where multiple logics keep moving along as they do. This in turn gives way to the participation of the public, even though it might simply involve watching and listening while sitting in one’s seat.
The project is supported by the artist residency programme at La Casa Encendida/CA2M (Madrid) and rile* space (Brussels), a bookstore and project space for publications and performance.
Andrea Zavala Folache is a choreographer, performer, visual artist and educator. Since 2018 she has lived in Madrid and Amsterdam. She graduated from the SNDO (School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam) and has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her work is developed in the intersection between her two areas of study. Her first contact with the body as a working tool came from drawing, where the hand and the pencil drive movement between the subject and the world. On this basis, her language moves through formats, sensibilities and feminist philosophies on cinema and painting until coming to choreography as a support and container for experimentation and research. As part of her work, she does workshops at the SNDO, ISAC Brussels, SIS/Sandberg Instituut, MovLab and Jacuzzi Amsterdam, and is the artistic consultant for various creative processes, doing visual communication for Adriano Wilfert Jensen and working actively with Jija Sohn, Laura Ramírez and Maciej Sado. Her most recent work has been seen at the Bâtard Festival (Brussels), Les Urbaines (Switzerland), Rakete-Tanzquartier Vienna, Me gustas pixelad_ (La Casa Encendida, Madrid), FLAM Amsterdam, Dansmakers Amsterdam and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Geneva, amongst others.
Laura Ramírez is a choreographer and dancer. Her work explores the idea of landscape, the ambiguous body, intermediary spaces and feeling with beat. She is currently working on her next solo, entitled serenity rave. She is actively engaged with Ainhoa Hernández, with whom she created the Twins Experiment collective in 2014, and as a collaborator on pieces by María Jerez, Cris Blanco, Play Dramaturgia and Quim Bigas. As a consequence of her work, which she mainly develops in Madrid, Barcelona and France, she gives workshops and movement classes, and assists as a tutor in the control of creative processes for various artists and collectors, creating study spaces with MovLab at La Casa Encendida or EL CLUB (a reading club) at the Teatros del Canal, Madrid. With Andrea Zavala she has created a sport for disappearing, along with music and texts, and works in the Department of Education at the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. Her most recent creations and collaborations have been seen in France, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, the United States and Spain.
