Kinu is a platform promoted by Usue Arrieta and Ainara Elgoibar, from the artists cooperative Tractora Koop.E., to program, view and discuss audiovisual productions by artists. A quarterly meeting point where an artist is invited to show his/her work and share a workshop to reflect as a group on this type of practice and its specifics. The project consists mainly of three parts: Kinu, Lantaldea and Distirak.
Description:
Kinu - a screening and public presentation of the guest artist's work
Kinu#2: Kinu started with a pilot session Kinu#1 with artist Elena Aitzkoa and it started as a resident collective in AZ in September 2020 with Kinu#2, with Maddi Barber as guest artist. With a brief but consolidated professional career, she presented her latest work, Gorria. Shot on 16mm in Lakabe, this work is a learning exercise of two trades in parallel: filming on celluloid and herding.
Kinu#3: Kinu#3 continued in November 2020 with a session dedicated to filmmaker Sabine Groenewegen with the state premiere of Odyssey (2018), the filmmaker's latest work. A dreamy essay that delves into the materiality of archival images to deconstruct naturalized colonial representations.
Kinu#4: The cycle continued in April 2021 with a double session dedicated to the work of Andrés Duque, a Spanish filmmaker born in Venezuela, with the screenings of Final essay for utopía and Carelia. His work is situated on the periphery of Spanish non-fiction with a strong essay character.
Kinu#5: Dedicated to the artist Imogen Stidworthy, a selection of her sound works, films and multimedia installations was shown in September 2021. Her works delve into the fragility of language, attending to situations in which words are unstable, wear out or fail, exploring what other forms of understanding emerge in such situations.
Kinu#6: The last session in 2021 was dedicated to the German filmmaker Ute Aurand, a key figure in European 16mm experimental cinema. Her work as a filmmaker, programmer and producer is inescapable to understand the Berlin alternative film culture in which she has been active since the 1980s.
Lantaldea - a session led by the artist together with a stable work group
Lantaldea#2: Workshop Lantaldea#1 and Lantaldea#2 focused on filming, with an audiovisual piece as the result. One piece shot in 16mm, mounted on camera, developed and projected on the same day of the workshop.
Lantaldea#3: Session around the act of assembling a film from other people's materials, starting from the Master Class given by Sabine Groenewegen.
Lantaldea#4: It dealt with the techniques developed by Augusto Boal to film improvisation. The methodology developed by Boal since the 70s, which he called Theater of the Oppressed, understands that whoever.
Lantaldea#5: During the session, Stidworthy delved into a series of exercises that she develops for the Klinik und Rehabilitationszentrum Lippoldsberg project, a specialized heart rehabilitation clinic located on the site of a former Nazi pump factory.
Lantaldea#6: Session about the work of the filmmaker Ute Aurand.
Distirak - a text written by a person of the workshop, where the experience of each Lantaldea is presented.
