Prototipoak. Bienal Internacional de Nuevas Formas Artísticas (2018)

Title:

Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms (2018)

Programme:

Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms

Date:

31-05-2018 / 03-06-2018

Curator(s):

Brookes, Mike
Casado, Rosa

Produced by:

Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao

Type:

Biennial

Tags:

Contemporary art
Digital culture
Robotics

Summary:

Azkuna Zentroa presents the second edition of Prototipoak, International Meeting of New Artistic Forms which seeks to introduce new forms and functions of art, through projects focused on different aspects of everyday life in the city. This international encounter has been developed in collaboration with various local institutions, organisations, groups and individuals.
This edition, curated by Rosa Casado and Mike Brookes, revolves around a series of artistic projects that will be presented between 31 May and 3 June, and an exhibition that will open on 31 May and will continue until 16 September 2018. This edition also features the exhibition ... y las cosas que hacemos.

Description:

PROGRAMME

Bouchra Ouizguen. Corbeaux. Corbeaux (Crows) is a performance of great intensity that takes place outside the traditional scenic space. In this piece created by Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen, figures dressed in black emerge from the darkness and, like birds, dance forward to a hypnotic rhythm. In each performance, Ouizguen seeks uniqueness through local participants. For the development of the project in Bilbao, ten local women have been selected who, together with the Moroccan artists of Compagnie O, form a unique horde of crows. With their heads wrapped in white scarves, they perform physical and vocal actions that repeat rhythmically, that change, that evolve with the development of the performance.
Mammalian Diving Reflex. Haircuts by Children. In the Haircuts by Children project, students of the 'IES San Adrian BHI' will learn how to cut hair guided by a professional hairdresser. Then, during two days, they will take charge of the hairdresser's hairdresser's haptic of the Casco Viejo of Bilbao, where they will offer free haircuts to all the adults who want to put themselves in their hands. Haircuts by Children is a performance about crazy haircuts and also about power and confidence. In this piece, the audience is challenged to put aside their vanity, to relinquish their control and to trust these children to display their creative capacity, skill and responsibility with a pair of sharp scissors: as the leaders of the future that they are, as capable and responsible citizens.
Los Torreznos. The Sky and Culture. The sky is a scenic piece in the form of a game in which evident elements of what is present (clouds, trees, stars, etc.) and what is not seen or imagined (spirits, imaginary forms and imperceptible details) are contrasted. The sky is a great mirror where we reflect the visible and the invisible. This work raises the possibility of shortening the distances between the imaginary, the fanciful, and the concrete. Culture consists of a work of action that plays on the basis of what could be a lecture about culture that is broken down from different points of view. Culture is the territory through which we move. This work is on the border between action art and experimental theater. Few and very simple words are used. Humor is the material that brings together the ideas that are unraveled here.
Luke Jerram. Museum of the Moon. During the PROTOTIPOAK meeting, the sun in Azkuna Zentroa disappears to make way for the moon. Museum of the Moon is a new traveling artwork by British artist Luke Jerram. Seven meters in diameter and with a resolution of 120 dpi, Luke Jerram has created this piece from the detailed images of the lunar surface taken by NASA. At a scale of approximately 1:500,000, each centimeter of the spherical sculpture illuminated from within represents 5 km of the lunar surface. The installation, which will be a focal and meeting point during PROTOTIPOAK, is this time a fusion of lunar imagery and moonlight.
Dr. Kurogo. nana, concert for sleepers. nana, concert for sleepers is a long night concert for people awake, asleep or in a state of slumber. The concert has a duration of eight hours.
Camila Tellez. MIRADOR research center. MIRADOR research center is a fictional space, an invisible construction developed in the public space of the city of Bilbao. After months of observation and stay in the surveillance booth of the City Hall Bridge and its surroundings, the artist proposes writing and public intervention as a means to build a research center of the gaze.
consonni. Speech Sound. Speech Sound is the new consonni radio show with AZ as resident collective in the framework of the Amphitryon residency program. But above all, it is the title of a science fiction story for which its author, Octavia E. Butler, won for the first time in 1984 the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.This radio show is broadcast from the consonni radio studio set up in the Resident Collective's space in AZ's Atrium of Cultures, the Amphitryon Set.
Azala. Martxaundi II, From Lasierra to Bilbao we go across the tracks with all expenses paid to the compass of walking terrain traced with eye without undoing the group looking west-northwest on May 31 will see pollux, beaver, venus, procion and athena to the compass of sky signed.
Núria Güell. Out of the game. Do you want to play hide and seek with a domestic and care worker? The game will not end until you see her and, in this way, she can come out of the hiding place she is in. With this project we intend to bring to the public arena the situation of abuse and legal helplessness that applies to domestic and care workers in Spain.