Patio time | Videoart and music
Tuesday 29 July
(doors open: 11.30pm)
24.15 h | Charity lounger (draw)
24.20 h | Núria Güell (screenings + music)
SCREENINGS | 24.20 h
Núria Güell | Words of Love. An essay on passions*
How many dramaturgically pre-established situations have we experienced in our love stories? What ghosts or what pleasures are hidden behind the mask of beliefs around the ideal of love? Could it be that the main cause of social conflicts is not hatred but an excess of blind love? What effects would the de-idealization of love have on the social order? And on us? What is the responsibility of culture in all these paradoxes?
During the process of creating and producing the work Words of Love, Núria Güell had meetings with a criminologist, a private detective and a psychoanalyst. With fragments of these meetings and popular songs that I grew up with, I have created this video essay that questions the institutionalized representations and the cultural mandates learned around passionate love and its consequences.
Güell proposes a format in which we will watch the film, hear testimonies and end with the love songs chosen for the occasion.
*Words of Love. An essay on passions is the winning project of the 10th edition of the Video Creation Award, a co-production between the Territorial Centers of the Public System of Visual Arts Facilities of Catalonia (ACVic – Center for Contemporary Arts, Vic; Bòlit – Center for Contemporary Art, Girona; Fabra i Coats – Center for Contemporary Art of Barcelona; M|A|C – Mataró Art Contemporani; Mèdol – Center for Contemporary Arts of Tarragona; Center for Art la Panera, Lleida; Lo Pati – Center for Art of the Terres de l’Ebre, Amposta; Center for Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat), Santa Mònica, the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and LOOP Barcelona.
Núria Güell
Vidreres, 1981
www.nuriaguell.com
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.
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.
