Places categories: IVAM Centre Julio González

Ale Granero and Marina González Guerreiro

When we think about the fall of a lightning bolt, most people imagine a storm and we don’t expect it to fall on a clear day. However, it is possible that the unlikely event could happen on that day. Side by side, we will build an observatory from which to expect the unexpected and think about everything that falls from the sky or is given to us as a matter of course. At the end of the activity, we will try to draw a map with our observations.

Ale Granero (1992) is a researcher in artistic creation. His work reflects on the poetics of living and the tensions that operate in the field of critical outlooks. He holds a PhD in Art and Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Sometimes his research takes the form of text. While at other times, it takes the form of artistic gestures. He currently lives in Barcelona, where he continues his studies in the University Masters in Comparative Studies of Art, Literature and Thought at Pompeu Fabra University.

Sonia Tarazona and Marina González Guerreiro

The proposal was born from the lack of space and time for oneself in cities, and outlines an exercise of automatic immersive writing on one of the public buses of Line C1 Centre Històric (Historic Quarter), starting from EMT bus stop 796 – IVAM. The activity is split into three parts: the collective reading of texts related with the topic and explanation of the activity; travel and writing from the logbook; anonymous reading from the logbook texts.

Sonia Tarazona (Castellón de la Plana, 1993) studied Fine Arts and the Masters in Artistic Production at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. After several years working in cultural management in Valencia, she emigrated to London where she worked in the film industry and came into contact with the city’s anarcha-feminism movement, organising festivals like By Any Zines Necessary or the meet-up group for Latin migrant women, Café Collective. However, the Covid-19 crisis meant a shift in her education and she had to abandon her Masters in Art Theory at Goldsmiths London University to return to Spain, where she studied the Masters in Teaching at the University of Valencia. She is currently in charge of the La Figuera community teaching space at Escuela Meme and is in charge of the Gata Negra feminist fanzine, while also teaching comics and video games classes at the Ciclope Centre. Academy of Digital Arts, and she also prepares the publishing of Transmitiendo entusiasmo. Guía práctica para introducir el fanzine en las aulas.

Raúl Lorenzo and Marina González Guerreiro

From the belief that a question can travel towards an answer like water towards thirst (Antropología del agua, Anne Carson), we propose a free walk through the mouth of the Carraixet ravine where each participant will take care of a question asked by another person, in the form of an invisible friend. Without falling into the urgency imposed on doubt by an immediate resolution, in this exercise on correspondence and interpretations, we will allow the question to show us its own pace.

Raúl Lorenzo (Zamora, 1985) is a Fine Arts graduate from the University of Salamanca and holds a Masters in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He has been a resident at the Bilbaoarte foundation (Bilbao) and Residencias a Quemarropa (Alicante), and rewarded with support in the creation of the Villalar de castile and Leon Foundation. He has collaborated with institutions like the Valencia Museum of Fine arts or the Provincial Museum of Zamora and, since 2022, he has been the founder and curator of Saceca, an independent art space situated in the province of Valencia.

Raúl Lorenzo, Sonia Tarazona, Ale Granero and Marina González Guerreiro

Marina González Guerreiro proposes a plural activity as part of her research in the Art and Context Programme at the IVAM. Although it is possible to sign up separately to each of the exercises, we recommend taking part in all three activities.

Ale, Sonia, Raúl and Marina suggest three writing exercises, three short trips to try and escape time. Understanding writing in its broadest sense, as a record or desire to record, we will distance ourselves from the linear, chronological, productivist and alienating time that reigns, to enable dynamics such as the pause, waiting, observation and digression to emerge. Without any tricks of escapism, off we go.

Tuesday 27th September, 18.30.

A question.

Raúl Lorenzo and Marina González Guerreiro

From the belief that a question can travel towards an answer like water towards thirst (Antropología del agua, Anne Carson), we propose a free walk through the mouth of the Carraixet ravine where each participant will take care of a question asked by another person, in the form of an invisible friend. Without falling into the urgency imposed on doubt by an immediate resolution, in this exercise on correspondence and interpretations, we will allow the question to show us its own pace.

Friday 30th September, 18.30.

Own seat. Writing from a logbook on an urban boat.

Sonia Tarazona and Marina González Guerreiro

Own seat. Writing from a logbook on an urban boat was born from the lack of space and time for oneself in cities, and outlines an exercise of automatic immersive writing on one of the public buses of Line C1 Centre Històric (Historic Quarter), starting from EMT bus stop 796 – IVAM. The activity is split into three parts: the collective reading of texts related with the topic and explanation of the activity; travel and writing from the logbook; anonymous reading from the logbook texts.

Friday 30th September, 18.30.

Observatory of the unexpected.

Ale Granero and Marina González Guerreiro

When we think about the fall of a lightning bolt, most people imagine a storm and we don’t expect it to fall on a clear day. However, it is possible that the unlikely could happen on that day. Side by side, we will build an observatory from which to expect the unexpected and think about everything that falls from the sky or is given to us as a matter of course. At the end of the activity, we will try to draw a map with our observations.