Gathering on Contextual Practices
Gathering coordinated by nyamnyam
[11 – 13:15 h]
What is the role of context? Who supports these projects, and how? What timeframes are needed to develop them? What happens to the symbolic materials that are set in circulation? What comes before, and what remains afterwards? How do modes of production shift or adapt within these practices?
We are opening a space for reflection on contextual artistic practices from different perspectives (artists, programming, curating, mediation, academia, audiences…). We aim to share a diversity of practices that enable creative projects to be developed in context through methodologies that are implemented and adapted to each specific place.
We propose this gathering as a space for building “Això al poble no li agradarà” at a territorial level, weaving a network of diverse agents who connect with this broad and evolving framework we are shaping. Practices that engage with both human and non-human dimensions, from an expanded and critical perspective on participation and community-based work.
The Excitation of the Landscape: Camouflage
Óscar Bueno
[13:30 – 14:15 h]
The Excitation of the Landscape takes shape through encounters, questions, music, publications, and performative pieces that explore our relationship with the territory.
“To move the landscape is to move our gaze and our listening. It means increasing the visual and sonic saturation of what we know in order to give it tension and energy. It involves creating a slight distance from the familiar, opening space for other ways of being. It is about bringing into relation elements that activate our eyes, our skin, our ears. Ultimately, it is about producing a sensitive and conceptual vibration towards the landscapes we attend to.”
This excitation consists of three pieces, each corresponding to a specific moment of the day (midday, afternoon, and night) and to a different way of relating to the landscape through a sensory and performative experience.
This first piece unfolds in a natural space where a river once flowed but no longer does, whether due to changes in the terrain or seasonal variations. The excitation focuses on the idea of camouflage and on how to generate a soundscape that is both artificial and natural, performed live within the environment.
A communal meal is included in the registration
