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Title: 
8 Topaketa
Programme: 
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms
Date: 
30-05-2023 / 03-06-2023
Place: 
Exhibition hall, floor -2
Artist(s): 
Lertxundi, Laida (1981- )
Curator(s): 
Casado, Rosa
López, Maider (1975- )
Noël, Stéphane
Pérez, Fernando
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Installation
Tags: 
Cinema
Art installations
Ecology
Art - Basque Country
Summary: 

Laida Lertxundi´s 8 Encounters project, developed as an Azkuna Zentroa Associated Artist, is conceived as an ephemeral school and a collaborative film project shot in 16 mm.
It was filmed in the mountains of the Basque Country from a series of open scores led by invited artists and carried out in small groups between 2021 and 2022.
Without a script or storyboard, the scenes took shape as the artist and collaborators interpreted instructions for the performers and the camera, developed in response to the dramatic and unique landscapes of the Basque Country. These scores were designed to foster improvisation, in-depth observation of the environment, group problem solving and defamiliarization.
Laida Lertxundi approaches film not only as a tool to produce narrative or fantasy, but as a perception of her own creation and a set of contingent material relationships within a specific environment. As a result, she frames the filming space as an end in itself, an ecological system which furthers the work and is highly visible in the resulting images.
Artists: Alex Alonso Díaz, Sirah Badiola, Ren Ebel, Usoa Fullaondo, Kiera Greene, Ketuta Alexi Meskhisvili, Clara Schulmann.
Participants: Rocío Agudo, Andrea Aguilera, Miguel Alejos, Carla Andrade, Leyre Arraiza, Tania Arriaga, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Miren Barrena, Judit Cerqueiro, Xabier Despaigne, Hanah Lur Ebel Lertxundi, Maite Choya, Marion Cruza, Fran Fraca, Andrea Franco Batievsky, Ines García, Susana Gonzalez Colls, Ana Gonzalez Telleria, Helena Goñi, Keira Greene, Tom Haines, Gala Knorr, Julia Martos, Rita Morais, Ander Muñoz, Olatz Ovejero, Federico Paladino, Javier Perez Curiel, Oksana Pohrebennyk, Bárbara Rodriguez, Leo Rodriguez Haines, Alba Rua, Iker Ruíz de Apodaka, Alex Salaberria, Marta Sanchez, Maider Santos, Jimmy Schaus, Beatriz Setién, Diego Sologuren, Amaia Urra, Milagros Valerio, Maia Villot.

Related activities: 
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms (2023)
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