Places categories: IVAM Centre Julio González

They do not walk but levitate. Their street earrings and dress tail are not ornaments but penknives. The heels that they wear are not high to make them taller, but to cut the distance that separates them from the sky. Their shoes are like the chairs of beach guards, but what they watch over are the looks of the males, the wooden walkways and the works in the IVAM. The room is more theirs than anyone’s: they are the dangerous ones.

The collective Female Sexual Initiative was born in 2017 in the self-managed social centre Can Vies, in Barcelona, with the desire to approach contemporary dance from a feminist, libertarian and anti-academic perspective. It is composed of Élise Moreau (France, 1992), Elisa Keisanen (Finland, 1988) and Cristina Morales (Spain, 1985).

Radicantes is a space for experimentation, research, observation and debate on performative practice.

The artists invited to this edition of Radicantes 2022-23 will be Laura Ramírez, Paz Rojo and Elena Córdoba.

A conversation between/with the three guests is scheduled for Friday, January 20, 2023

I once saw a brain in a tupperware. Elena Córdoba
From 16 to 21 January 2023. On Saturday 21st she will conduct a demonstration of her research.
During her stay she will work with a group of people. A call will be opened to form part of the laboratory.

Once I saw a brain in a tupper, it was in the Anatomical Theatre of the University of Coimbra, it was a soft form floating in formaldehyde. By studying the brain I have learned that memories are not stored in any particular place, that we do not have a physiological space in the brain to store them. I have learned that memories and thoughts are connections that just as they are established they can disappear. In other words, memory is made of traces left by what we have lived in the soft matter, even though it seems impossible for something to remain etched in it.

I want to look at those traces, at the processes through which something is written and in which what is written is erased.

Elena Córdoba. Dancer and choreographer. Her work is based on the detailed observation of the body, as both guiding principle and material. She claims sensory experience as a form of knowledge and the act of dancing as one of its manifestations.

In 2008 she began Anatomía poética, a cycle of creation about the interior of the human body, which includes works and studies of different formats. She currently works with the body and botany as part of the Ficciones Botánicas, a project of study and creation around the plant world and its choreographic laws.

To dance, understood as a human manifestation, she has dedicated the collective projects: Bailar ¿es eso lo que queréis?, Déjame entrar o ¿Bailamos?.
https://www.elenacordoba.net/

Radicantes is a space for experimentation, research, observation and debate on performative practice.

The artists invited to this edition of Radicantes 2022-23 will be Laura Ramírez, Paz Rojo and Elena Córdoba.

A conversation between/with the three guests is scheduled for Friday, January 20, 2023

Die well. Paz Rojo
January 9-13, 2023. On Friday 13th she will conduct a demonstration of her research.
During her stay she will work with an inter-generational group of people. A call will be opened to form part of the laboratory.

In the new cycle of Radicantes I would like to share an investigative process that I am just beginning. The project is entitled Die Well and is born from the desire to decolonize this future.

With the expression “die well” I try to understand a sustainable present through the practice of a pharmakon: a word of Greek origin that means both a poison and an antidote. “To die well” is perhaps the tragedy that remains for us to assume. We are at the end of this particular world. A fact that forces us to act assuming our own contingency and finitude, however. Understood in this way, the expression “die well” can be a practice involving reflection over the long term about the continuity of our practices, and the knowledge that they generate, in order to conceive together a culture which is connected to what it is to die, to age, to end, yet oriented towards what comes after the segment of time in which we live.

This laboratory appeals to a certain cosmological and inter-generational sensitivity: adolescents, young people, middle-aged people and people over 65 are invited to conceive together the implementation of a possible “post-future art”. An art conceived as if it were an object of the past, but in contact with what will come. An art descended from a performance and a dance in ruins. An art that recalls, as if it were a dark omen, that life carries in itself the dream – or nightmare – of survival.

We will approach these ideas from artistic research and dance based on practice. From a non-linear approach to time, we will focus on the temporal category of the “end.” This does not necessarily imply reaching the final term, but a “later” that allows us to think about the sustainability of our practices and knowledge “as if the end had taken place”. Each session will be contextualized via references that accompany the project’s research concerns, through which I will facilitate different movement practices and experiments of various nature. We will work individually or in groups in a quiet environment where there will be space to ask questions, share and self-regulate the learning-research process itself.

This workshop is aimed at anyone (with previous experience in dance or not) interested in performing arts, dance and artistic research.

Paz Rojo is an Artist, Dancer and Researcher. Degree in choreography, Amsterdam University of the Arts (1996–2000, AHK/SNDO). She studied dance at Movement Research and Susan Klein School, New York (1994-1995). In 2020 she received a PhD in Performance Practices with a specialisation in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden, with the project entitled “The twilight of choreography and its movement: the path of a body”. Her work questions the power of dance and the possibility of an artistic production beyond the framework of capitalist value production. A long-running project that has had multiple formats and artistic manifestations. More information at: to dance in the age of no-future.

Since 2009 she has been teaching, organising seminars, meetings, conferences, lectures and supervising artistic projects both in European university art programs as well as in independent artistic initiatives in Spain and Latin America. Her work includes editing, writing and publishing projects such as the book To Dance in the Age of No-Future , (Circadian, nonprofit publisher, Berlin 2019). Self-publishing ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de danzar en un plano de percepción destituyente? (Madrid 2018). And the co-edition of the book-laboratory Vocabulaboratories (Ámsterdam-Viena 2008). In 2020 she presented Invisible Labor and the solo show Lo que Baila (2021).

Radicantes is a space for experimentation, research, observation and debate on performative practice.

The artists invited to this edition of Radicantes 2022-23 will be Laura Ramírez, Paz Rojo and Elena Córdoba.

A conversation between/with the three guests is scheduled for Friday, January 20, 2023

Oasis of Serenity. Laura Ramírez
December 12 – 16, 2022 On Friday 16th she will conduct a demonstration of her research.

This proposal is an intersection between choreography, movement, narrative and sound. An oblique path, a deviant decision. Remaining in the investigation while it is being carried out. Incarnated voices and sound bodies that echo in space through a character called serenity rave. Where does the word end and the body begin? Where does your language come from? What’s its heartbeat? Alongside this, techno music (accompanist in my last works and fundamental part of my research), arises to make the body and memory coincide; to produce a sensory environment through which, perhaps, a rumour could emerge, another language… It is about proposing an investigation whose edges are full of cracks and fissures through which to be sneak, using the fragmentation and the unfolding of the body to open an intermediate space, for its narratives and images; to resignify all the time. So much so, that I might disappear. Navigate over the traced tension lines. Be in the middle. A game where ruin is the landscape that desperately invades the body of expectations, its speed and its actions.

From an opaque rock, clear water gushes forth.
The solid bowl contains the clarity. Drink, traveler. Pay attention. Drink.
Ursula K. LeGuin. Hard Words, The Eternal Homecoming.

Laura Ramírez Ashbaugh (Madrid, 1988). Choreographer and dancer. She works through dance, sound and choreography. Her practice focuses on intermediate spaces, sound, images and science fiction, using them to think about ways of doing and investigating languages of movement that escape the known forms, generating intermediate places where new logics can emerge, logics that separate us from established and capitalised systems of thought and get closer to the body’s perception and intuition. Graduate in physical theatre from the Royal School of Dramatic Art, she studied dance and choreography in the cities of New York, Paris and Amsterdam in schools such as Martha Graham School or SNDO.

In 2014 she created the collective Twins Experiment with Ainhoa Hernández Escudero. She has collaborated on pieces by María Jerez, Cris Blanco, Xavier Le Roy, Marten Spångberg, Adriano Wilfert, Sara Manubens, Esther Rodríguez Barbero, Andrea Zavala Folache, Lucas Condró, Claudia Pagès, Quim Bigas, Javi Cruz and Aitana Cordero among others; and four years ago she started in the world of DJ-ing as a practice that both sustains and complements her work, constituting an important factor within her research (https://soundcloud.com/sealaura/tracks).

Alongside her work, which mainly takes place in Madrid, Barcelona and France, she teaches workshops, movement classes and helps in the creative processes of different artists and collectives; she generates study spaces such as MovLab at La Casa Encendida or EL CLUB (reading club) at the Teatros del Canal; she creates a sport to disappear, music and texts together with Andrea Zavala and works in the education and mediation department of the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

She has shown her latest creations and collaborations in France, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, USA, and Spain.

www.lauraramirezashbaugh.com

Radicands presents itself as a space for experimentation, investigation, observation and debate on performative practice.

Since its beginnings in 2017, it has been committed to making creation processes visible and sharing them with the public, giving value and significance to the moments in which an idea is explored.

Placing the body as the epicentre of the action, we devise relational settings far removed from the theatrical and/or artistic conventions, directing the focus towards experimentation, practice and reflection on the creative act, its production and exhibition mechanisms, providing the invited artists and the public with the appropriate conditions to share the creative act live.

An open exploration of creation, stripped of its customs, habits and inertia, to be contemplated from other angles. An encounter with the perspective of other bodies.

The artists invited to this edition of Radicands 2022-23 are Laura Ramírez, Paz Rojo and Elena Córdoba.

On Friday 20 January 2023 a conversation is programmed between/with the three guests

Oasis of Serenity. Laura Ramírez
From 12 to 16 December 2022. On Friday 16 there will be a sample of her research.

Die well. Paz Rojo
From 9 to 13 January 2023. On Friday 13 there will be a sample of her research.
During her stay she will work with an intergenerational group of people. There will be an open call to form part of the laboratory.

I once saw a brain in a tupperware. Elena Córdoba
From 9 to 13 January 2023. On Friday 13 there will be a sample of her research.
During her stay she will work with an intergenerational group of people. There will be an open call to form part of the laboratory.

Conversation between/with Laura Ramírez, Paz Rojo y Elena Córdoba
20 January 2023, 6pm