Emission 1.Una voz sin cuerpo, hacia el amor.Special Issue. MUGATXOAN.

Emisión 1 [Broadcast 1] is presented as a shared framework with the audience, where the interventions of the guest artists seek to generate different approaches to the topic used as the title for this broadcast. This involves marking out new coordinates in a search of different approaches to the idea of love [amor], as a concept for the development of an artistic process. And that is how we focus our questions on different situations that cannot be captured in language, but whose existence and experience can be shared, as they are expressed and embodied in other media. The perception of love as a sign. Until what point does language function rather more as a suggestion of what is real? Can language be activated as a sign of something, of a small reality that has still not discovered how to be expressed in words?
For our peace of mind, AMOR [love] exists and is in Portugal, 151 km from Lisbon along the A8 motorway towards Leiria and then leave at Exit 2.  The real coordinates of Love are N 39.79076º and W 8.828938º

    We will connect with our external correspondent, Amaia Urra, who will take us to unreal and real coordinates in the search for AMOR, ROMA [LOVE, ROME] as the city of love. We also send her to cover the  El amor en cuatro lecciones de filosofía sessions organised by the French Libération newspaper in Paris. 

Cuaderno 1 follows on from the  Cuaderno0 publication and reactivates work process fragments and elements revisited with four new collaborations: Frondoso Matorral by Amaia Urra, The love piece by Alice Chauchat, Contrariwise by Itziar Okariz and El amor como producción: una pequeña teoría de la economía del arte by Peio Aguirre. They will be involved in different ways during these three days and draw us in to help with the publication.

Invited by EkS-scena to work with local performers in the summer 2006 in Zagreb, I set up a situation in which six persons engaged to work together for three weeks, without sharing any clear
focus from the outset. Yet I had set up a basic structure for our work.
Rather than engaging in a critical debate where we would position ourselves by differentiating from each other, we took our differences for granted and instead committed to making ourselves interested in what appealed most to each of us. which relation do you want to establish between the audience and the performers, between the audience and the piece? How about producing emotions, affects moving people? We also grew an interest for make-believe and the spectators’ engagement that is necessary for fiction to become a shared reality.
The set up of The Love Piece comes directly from this nurtured interest in relationships, affective production and play.

In the many-worlds theory, all possible situations are said to be happening at the same time until something is observed. Until someone observes it. Then nature chooses one of the different possibilities. Thus, everything is happening now and at the same time in ciencia_ficción. At least until you go in to see it and listen to it.
 

 

Dirty- Room. Episode 1
Juan Domínguez
Dirty Room, a project by Juan Domínguez created in collaboration with María Jerez and Sara Manente,
and with the help of Alice Chauchat.
Voice: María Jerez
Collaboration: Las Colombina’s

 

On the trails of the program Thanatophonics, presented at Mugatxoan in February 2012, Manuel Cirauqui returns to talk about the workshop he is developing these days: Spectral Maneuvers on the Radio where offer a practical and theoretical exploration of radiophony as a field of encounterfor subjectivity and its phantoms.




 A performer standing on one leg before a microphone next to a loudspeaker is here facing the audience. The performer repeats the words “yes...", "no...", "yes...", "no...", "yes...", “no…”, speaking non-stop through the loudspeaker and simultaneously urging the audience.
There is a certain lag between the performer's voice coming through the loudspeaker, so that a "yes..." from the loudspeaker, can overlap a “no…” from the performer’s voice in real time, or vice versa.
The performer repeats the monosyllables until they become a conversation. There is something absurd or comical in its drawn-out repetition.

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Biographies

Amaia Urra. San Sebastián 1974. Graduated in Fine Arts, specialising in sculpture, 1998, University of the Basque Country.  At the same time, she studied contemporary dance.  She has worked for and with artists and choreographers whose work interest and stimulate her, such as Juan Domínguez, Frederic Seguette, Ion Munduate, Jérôme Bel, Olga Mesa and Xavier Le Roy.
As a result of her involvement in Mugatxoan in 1999 and 2000, she began to create her own work, with the Desayuno con diamantes and No GoaL videos.  In 2002, she premiered her first piece, El Eclipse de A. In 2007-08, she created The Neverstarting Story in collaboration with Cristina Blanco, Cuqui Jerez and Maria Jerez.
In 2009, she produced the Time-Wasters video and in 2010, the La Cosa performance which she put on at different European festivals. In 2012, she put on Desaparezco, as part of Emisión 0- Mugatxoan, at the San Telmo Museum of San Sebastián  and Renuncio at the In- presentable festival at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.


Alice Chauchat born 1977 in Saint-Etienne (FR), lives and works in Berlin and Paris as choreographer, performer and teacher/lecturer. Studied in the C.N.S.M. of Lyon and at P.A.R.T.S. She works most in collaborative set-ups, developing numerous choreographic projects and platforms for knowledge production and exchange in the performing arts. She is currently artistic co-director of Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, a center for artistic research in the Parisian suburbs.


Cristina Blanco. Cristina studied Dramatic Art in Madrid. Since 2003, she has been producing her own stage performances, including “cUDRADO_fLECHA_pERSONA qUE cORRE” (2004), “TELETRANSPORTATION” (2010) and “ciencia_ficción”(2010/2012).  She has also worked as a  performer with other film, theatre and performance artists, such as Amaia Urra, Cuqui Jerez, María Jerez, Juan Domínguez,  Luis Úrculo, Xavier le Roy and Roser Aguilar. She is the lead musician of The Elements band and member of the Club and Calaveras de Cher artistic collectives.www.tea-tron.com/cristinablanco
 
Peio Aguirre. Art critic, independent curator and publisher. Lives and works in Donostia-San Sebastián.
From 2000 to 2005 he was the co-director of D.A.E. Donostiako Arte Ekinbideak. He has curated exhibitions Imágenes del otro lado [Images from the Other Side], CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2007), Arqueologías del futuro [Archaeology of the future], Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2007) and Asier Mendizabal, MACBA., Barcelona (2008). He has published articles and essays in international journals including Afterall, A Prior Magazine, Flash Art, ExitExpress, and e-flux journal among others, and has written numerous monographic texts on contemporary artists. He writes “critique and
meta -commentary” in his blog http://peioaguirre.blogspot.com

Itziar Okariz. Born in San Sebastián in 1965, Itziar lives and works between New York and Bilbao.  Her work is often known for the production of actions that question the regulations around language and the production of signs that define us as subjects.
Her recent individual projects include: Uno, uno, dos, uno, at Carreras Mujica Gallery, 2012. Irrintzi, repetición, the Casa Galería, Mexico City (2011). How d’ye do? performance at the VI “Ellas Crean”, ARCO, Madrid (2010). Contrarywise, performance at the Picasso Museum, Barcelona (2010). Exhibition at the Carreras Múgica Gallery, Bilbao. 2009. Ghost Box at the Sala Rekalde exhibition centre, Bilbao (2008) “Curating the campus”: To Pee in Public and private Spaces, at The Singel, Antwerp (2007). Talent, at Vita Kuben, Umea, Sweden (2007) Climbing Buildings” at the “If I Can’t Dance…” festival Utrecht (2007).
 She has also taken part in the following collective exhibitions: Genealogías Feministas en el Arte Español, 1960-2010. MUSAC, León. 2012. re.act.feminism #2, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Tallinna Kunstihoone in Tallinn, Estonia, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark. Galerija Miroslav Kraljević , Zagreb, Croatia, Wyspa Institute of Art , Gdansk, Poland. 2011-2012. La Internacional Cuir, Performance, discussion and video series, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. 2011. I was a Male Yvonne de Carlo MUSAC, León 2011. Like a river that stops being a river or like a tree that is burning in the horizon without knowing it is burning Temporary Gallery. Cologne, 2010. Antes que todo CA2M, Madrid, 2010. Chacun a son gout, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. 2007.