Coordination: Neus Miró
Guest speakers: Emily Richardson, Jane & Louise Wilson, Xavier Ribas
Date: From 8 to 10 September
Place: Koldo Mitxelena, Areto Nagusia
Schedule: 19.00 hours
Contemporary practice more commonly and correctly refers to the subject being studied and explored as "place", "territory" or “site”. Those artists believe a “place” as a space where the reminiscing process continues to trigger the past as something that is – in the words of Henri Bergson, “lived and acted, rather than represented”.
The work of artists such as Tacita Dean, Roni Horn,
James Benning, Darren Almond, Xavier Ribas, Marine Hugonnier, Jane & Louise
Wilson, Joachim Koester, Emily Richardson to name just a few, is
characterised its fathoming, researching, reconstruction work, which likewise
includes political and subjective questioning of the subject being explored.
Works in the form of photography, video and film are based on and are the
result of the construction of significant connections at the level of
experience with the specific place, and in many cases, are forged over long
periods of time. The use of these audiovisual technologies likewise enable the
unusual, the instantaneous, the contingent, the fortuitous to be recorded, in a
fragmented way in the case of photography and with the possibility of duration
and continuity on film.
These seminars will showcases a series of authors who will approach certain places in order to fathom, research and reconstruct the possible narrations linked to those specific sites. Their works, often in the form of photographs, video and film, seek to recover, preserve and visualise those many stories that are accumulated as archives in a geographical place and thus transmit the beauty existing there by capturing the ephemeral and fortuitous that characterise the present. This approach reveals new perspectives and narratives for the most routine and commonplace settings, which are shown to be essential time capsules.
Open Conferences
8 September, at 19.00 hours: Emily Richardson
9 September, at 19.00 hours: Jane & Louise Wilson
10 September, at 19.00 hours: Xavier Ribas
