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Urra, Amaia (1974- )

Donostia-San Sebastián. Performance and visual arts.

Graduated in 1998 from the University of the Basque Country in the specialty of Sculpture, in 2002 she presented her first performance, El eclipse de A., produced by Arteleku within the framework of the Mugatxoan program.

Between 1999 and 2009 she lived between Paris, Brussels, Madrid and Berlin, where she worked with different choreographers: Jérôme Bel, Cristina Blanco, Blanca Calvo, Juan Domínguez, María y Cuqui Jerez, Xavier Le Roy and Ion Munduate.

All their actions have in common a synthetic use of language, be it spoken, sung, read or hummed. The writing, the repetition, the elaboration of lists or the search and comparison between different official definitions and agreed by dictionaries or encyclopedias nourish a journey in which writing, reading and action are linked to singing, walking and other drifts, presenting situations that reveal, from a poetic attitude, what is not seen, not heard or is not taken into account.

Her pieces have been represented in spaces, meetings and festivals such as Art nomade, international performance meeting in Saguenay (Quebec), Axeneo7 & SAW Gallery in Gatineau (Otawa), Action Lines at Casa Maauad (Mexico DF), festival In-presentable by La Casa Encendida (Madrid), 2D2H festival (Hondarribia-Hendaia), Bulegoa z / b (Bilbao), the Ecolalias series by RSS Radio of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Zarata Fest (Bilbao) , the Azkuna Zentroa contemporary culture center (Bilbao), the 15th edition of the Picnic Sessions of the Dos de Mayo Art Center (CA2M, Móstoles) or the Héctor Escandón room (Mexico City). She currently lives and works in Donostia-San Sebastián, where between March 2017 and February 2018 she directed the Alkolea Beach space, together with Sandra Cuesta and Larraitz Torres.

In ArtxiboAZ