Past Continuous Cycle “Talk to me, body”

• Saturday, December 11, at 19h.

“Talk to me, body” is part of “Looking for Pepe”, a study started by Nazario Díaz in 2016 that begins with the figure of the Cordovan artist Pepe Espaliú (1955-1993) to deploy a series of investigations around the body, language and territory. It takes its title from the text Juan Vicente Aliaga wrote on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Pabellón Mudéjar in Seville in 1994, a year after Espaliú’s death from AIDS. The study around his person and how he developed links between his work and his circumstances, affected by the illness, in a social and political moment in full transformation, inspires a work around the matter that mutates or disappears, and the idea of wear and tear and subjection of a body understood as physical and social existence.

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• Sunday, December 12, from 11 am to 2 pm.

MASTERCLASS by Nazario Díaz on his proposal “Talk to me, body”, focused on audiences interested in learning more about the details of the research, the creative process and the resulting outcome.

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Nazario Díaz (Linares, Jaén, 1985) develops his work mainly in the field of performing arts, focusing on the tension generated between body, gaze and writing. He is a member of Vértebro together with Juan Diego Calzada and Ángela López, with whom he curated the Beautiful Movers festival in Córdoba. As a performer he has worked with Jorge Gallardo, Isaak Erdoiza or Societat Doctor Alonso. Since 2018 he lives in Bilbao, where he participates in two collective learning contexts: PICA, a program to accompany a temporary community of artists and researchers led by Idoia Zabaleta and Luciana Chieregati, and the Invitation program, a proposal by Colectivo Qualquer to investigate and exchange methodologies and tools coming from the field of living arts. Looking for Pepe brings together previous interests around two central concepts: presence and resistance and is currently developing Otro borrado a través de la insistencia, solo, and Conversation pieces with Basque choreographer Isaak Erdoiza.

“A tower” is an exercise of approach to the construction of a castle (“castell”) from a conformation -an agreement with the form- of three bodies in particular, a multitude. This process unfolds from the union between the Muixeranga d’Algemesí and the challenge of making the human tower.

The piece can be understood as an extract of Mira Si He Corregut Terres, a theoretical-practical research in which they insist on the correlation between challenges and rites (challenges and actions carried out in the tradition)-; from the attempt to approach or understand a shared behavior in the field of the global and the local, the atavistic and the close. All this is pointed out in a practical study of the shift from tradition to tendency framed in the uses of the body, always from the body itself.

Mar Reykjavik (Sagunto, 1995). She studied Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, specialising in moving image, installation and action. She has a Master in MasterLav ‘Laboratory of contemporary audiovisual creation’ combined with the Residence for Artists of the Hidden Space, until 2018. In 2018 she was an artist in-residence at the Fundación Bilbaoarte where she developed her project WAAITT, until 2019, with which she obtains one of their awards. In 2019 she is one of the artists awarded a grant by the GVA Consorci de Museus de la Comunidad Valenciana to carry out a project within the framework of Resistències. She is in one of the residencies ‘Artists in Residence at La Casa Encendida + CA2M’

She carries out the RENDER project, together with Quiela Nuc and Jara Rocha, within the framework of the InJuve grant. Her work has been exhibited/screened in spaces nationwide such as Pols, La Gallera, Fundació La Posta, Octubre CCC and el Muvim in Valencia, CA2M, Espacio Oculto, Storm And Drunk, Casabanchel or Cineteca de Matadero in Madrid, Zumzeig Cinema in Barcelona, Fundación Bilbaoarte or El Respiradero in the Basque Country, Da2 Artium Salamanca, COAC-Fotonoviembre in Tenerife and international ones such as Galeria NGBK, Berlin or SupermarketArtFair, Stockholm or Centro Cultural el Recoleta, in Buenos Aires.

She combines artistic production with teaching in spaces such as MasterLav, MACA Master in Experimental Architecture, Woman Make or La Fotoescuela.

POLIGLOTÍA: Presentation + Estudios Políglotas Group + Dreamer Strings&Doudou Nganga

The POLIGLOTÍA programme is a creative, multidisciplinary process arising from the diversity of languages and cultural practices that exist in the city of Valencia. To that effect, we experiment with language as an energising tool, along with other forms of doing, feeling and communicating.

At this opening session, we will present the POLIGLOTÍA programme with an activity that has been energised by the participants of the Estudios Políglotas Group*. They will outline the different open processes that describe the choices offered by multilingualism as a method for creating together, playing with diversity and making oneself understood. To close, there is a concert by the Spanish-Congolese duo Dreamer Strings&Doudou Nganga, a fusion of instrumental music with Central African rhythms.

The POLIGLOTÍA programme takes place from November 2021 to May 2022 and includes various activities and creative processes promoted, from a cultural and linguistic perspective, by meetings at the museum. The programme is coordinated by Paco Inclán, writer and Spanish teacher for migrants and refugees, in collaboration with the activities and education department at IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art).

*Participants: Tarif Ashtar, Paula Guardiola, Yulia Fert, Badinengany Katalay-Sun, Hu Zhao, Milagros Arias, Teona Ruzadze, Fatma Guisse, Ivan Reznik, Joaquín Artime, Clara Solbes, Javier Lorente Puchades, Yahui Liu Zhou.