Patio time | Videoart and music
Saturday 12 July
(doors open: 9pm)
9.45pm | Max de Esteban,
Alicia Framis and
Raquel Friera (screenings)
+ charity lounger (draw)
11 pm | Slow Connection (music)
SCREENINGS | 9.45pm
Max de Esteban| Seven minutes, 2022 | 7′ (loop)
A work of art challenges us, its audience, by making a confession: the museum has installed detectors that measure the time and attention that each of the works generates. This is a score: only the most attractive to the audience will continue to be exhibited to the public. The rest return to storage or, worse yet, are removed from the collection. With seven minutes, the maximum score is achieved. The piece, thus, keeps us in front of it for exactly that, seven minutes.
There is currently much discussion about the role of museums in the contemporary condition. Although this questioning is posed as the urgency of connecting with new social values, the real stress is driven by the need to satisfy the demands of the attention economy, the culture of spectacle and the ideology of productivity.
Max de Esteban |Barcelona, 1959 www.maxdeesteban.com
Alicia Framis | Secret Strike.Tate Modern , 2006 | 10’57”
The 2000-person strike at the Tate Modern as a poetic performance. In Secret Strike the camera moves around the motionless figures and slowly approaches them in open sequences of shots. Slow and silent movements as if the normality of the scene could be disrupted. Even when human activities have come to a standstill, time has not, and Framis deliberately intensifies movements such as an automatic door, a ringing telephone or a flashing light…
Alicia Framis | Mataró, 1967
www.aliciaframis.com
Raquel Friera | The Art of Selling, 2012 | 6′
Artistic experiment in which Friera inserts his work into the commercial circuit of Figueres shops and does so using commercial language and its sales channels. This “promotional video” presents his works, which at the time were put up for sale in the shop windows of the shops where he learned how to do it.
Raquel Friera |
Tarragona, 1978
www.raquelfriera.net
CHARITY LOUNGER DRAW
Raffle among all the public who have bought numbers that day from one of the 9 charity loungers that 9 artists have altruistically participated in. If it’s your turn, you take it home!
The participating artists have been: Josep M. Codina, Laia Arnau, Lola Solanilla, Magda Codina, Marc Salicrú, Neus Masdeu, Neil Harbisson, Pol Uñó G. and Regina Giménez.
MUSIC | 11 p.m.
Slow Connection | Formed by Wild Lilac and Tyler Balaclava, 2020.
This is a completely DIY project based in Mataró that fuses indie and shoegaze with more electronic and industrial sounds that create an atmosphere of their own.
They will present new songs accompanied by those included in the previous albums “The Dog” and “Belmondo de Azul”.
www.instagram.com/_slowconnection/
Additional information
Free admission (limited capacity)
Doors open: 30 minutes before the start
Bar service (30 minutes before the start)
The solidarity lounger: purchase your participation at the entrance (10 €)
For more information: Mataró Web|Art|Contemporary
Many things happen at patio time. It is not only a moment dedicated to rest or breakfast: it is a space in which we reveal our social skills (communication, cooperation, conflict resolution, exchange and negotiation) and also a space accessible to everyone, so that the same ones do not always impose themselves, those who have more space or have more power.
The patio of the M|A|C is a friendly, comfortable and warm place, for diverse audiences (including family audiences), to spend July evenings in company, in a patio converted into the art center’s cinema and a summer meeting space, with a bar and live music.
