Symbiosis: A residence within another artist´s practice` – Febrary 3-5, 2022
Moving Artists (MA) is an independent, artist-run, non-profit originated in Bilbao (Spain). Working at the intersection of human rights and the arts, MA is dedicated to facilitating mobility and cultural exchange between countries that have restricted access to one another. In particular, MA seeks to enable movement and transnational exchange for cultural workers whose practice is threatened by situations of conflict, isolation, instability, censorship and cultural crisis.
Prolonged war conflicts, humanitarian crisis and repressive States often lead to closed borders and cultural isolation, thus conditioning cultural production within affected regions and distorting cultural perceptions externally. By opening and sustaining channels of movement and mutual interaction in an out zones of conflict, MA seeks to create vibrant and novel sites for artistic production and interlocution—shared spaces of curiosity, collaboration, critical emancipatory thought and education. MA creates platforms for mutual learning in light of diverse realities, encouraging residents to think in dialogue and collaboration with local communities. Since 2016, MA’s initiatives are short-term residency programs in Spain, Iraq and Palestine in which artists are provided with logistical, conceptual, and financial support to develop their practice and cultivate forms of inquiry and interlocution.
Unfortunately the pandemic has brought to a halt our ability to move artists. We, nonetheless, strive to pursue exchanges. This year we have conceived a new modality of dialogue, the program SYMBIOSIS. SYMBIOSIS aims to rethink the idea of residence, questioning and valuing the scope and impact of artistic practice and experience. The idea is to do a “residence at a distance”, such a residence will take place in the practice of another artist. Instead of immersing in a particular geographical context, the invited artist will “immerse” in the universe and language created by an artist who is socially and politically engaged in zones of unrest unfamiliar to the former. Such an encounter will be reciprocal.
We inaugurate this program inviting 4 artists that will work in pairs. 2 artists based in Spain (Camila Téllez and Pablo Marte), Solange Jacobs from Perú, and Kiri Dalena from The Philippines (please see artists bios below).
Thursday 3 February (in person and online – streaming)
10:30-13:30: collaborative workshop with Camila Tellez (in person @ Sala Rekalde).
18:00: presentation Sol Jacobs and her work
More info about Solange Jacobs: https://solangejacobs.hotglue.me/
18:30: presentation Camila Tellez and her work
More info about Camila Tellez: https://vimeo.com/user10326124
19:00: performative presentation of their residency + conversation between Sol Jacobs and Camila Tellez
Friday 4th February (in person and online – streaming)
10:30 -13:30: collaborative workshop with Pablo Marte (in-person Sala Rekalde)
18:00: presentation of Kiri Dalena and her work
More info about Kiri Dalena: https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/lumbung-members-artists/kiri-dalena/
18:30: presentation Pablo Marte and his work
19:00: presentation of their residency & conversation between Pablo Marte and Kiri Dalena.
Saturday 5th February (online)
11:30 – 12:30: artist talk : Sajjad Abbas (Baghdad)
13:00 – 14:00: round table with the participation of Sajjad Abbas (Baghdad), Kiri Dalena (Philippines), Pablo Marte (Cadiz, Bilbao), Solange Jacobs (Peru) & Camila Tellez (Chile, Bilbao).
Kiri Dalena (The Philippines) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her artworks and films focus on injustices, social inequalities and human rights. Dalena works both as an individual and in collectives, such as Southern Tagalog Exposure (active 2001-2008) and RESBAK (Respond and Break the Silence Against the Killings, 2016-present). She studied BS Human Ecology at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and 16 mm documentary filmmaking at the Mowelfund Film Institute. She is the recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards (2009) and Thirteen Artists, Cultural Center of the Philippines (2012). Her works have been shown in multiple exhibitions internationally, such as the Singapore Biennale 2013, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2014, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2015, Jakarta Biennale 2017 and the Berlin Biennale 2020. Her recent work on colonial photography is ongoing at the Rautenstraucht-Joest Museum in Köln. https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/lumbung-members-artists/kiri-dalena/
Camila Téllez. (Santiago de Chile, 1982). Transdisciplinary artist, lives in Bilbao. Recent develops the Spring Transition mini-series project in collaboration with the Hungarian artist Eszter Katalin (2020-) on vampirism, queer/queer and autobiography. In addition, he starts with Joel Englund (Sweden), DAS. Artists in Refuge program, a refuge for artists in processes of care and vulnerability (2022). In her artistic practice recently, performativity, migration, gender identity and autobiography take shape through writing, voice and image; exploring different expressions of identity in the spaces I inhabit, as well as the relationships and distances with the public in different proposals for mediation of places. https://vimeo.com/user10326124
Pablo Marte (Cadiz, Bilbao) Pablo Marte (Cádiz, 1975) is an artist, writer and researcher. He is currently developing a symptomatic and intertextual practice where elements of the biographical, the anecdotal, the casual, experiential stories, etc., and also elements of the fabulous, the unreal or the incredible, come together in multi-narrative structures. Graduated in Film and Television Production from the Municipal School of Audiovisuals of Barcelona and a graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, he has shown his work in contexts such as the XXVI Image Study Conference at the C2M (Móstoles, Madrid), C3A (Córdoba), the Bilbaoarte Foundation, the Carreras Múgica gallery (Bilbao), O Cineclube (Santiago de Compostela), HANGAR Centro de Investigação Artística (Lisbon), Tabakalera (San Sebastián), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), Kadist Art Foundation ( Paris), Artium (Vitoria), among others.
Solange Jacobs is a Peruvian creator, visual artist, musician and performer. Former fellow of the Program of Independent Studies (PEI) of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). She works and lives between Spain and Peru since 2010. The motivations of her work are framed within feminism and work anticolonial, however, beyond these definitions and their academic configuration, She uses both spaces for reflection as resources in the search for those other orphan genealogies, denied and unacknowledged. Those that escape the radar of the academy due to its complexity. And that are mainly located in the memory of the body, categorized as personal, family, domestic and/or wild.
https://solangejacobs.hotglue.me/
Sajjad Abbas multidisciplinary artist, Born in Iraq Baghdad 1993, graduate from Institute of Fine Art, Baghdad 2014 department of Plastic implemented many of graffiti in Baghdad since 2011, he worked as art department for 8 movies in Iraqi independent film center and a student in same place since 2011-2014, He has completed two animation films. His most recent ‘Iraqi Superman’ was completed in 2014 and win as best animation short film in Maremetraggio film festival 2016, a student in Sada “Echo” for Iraqi contemporary art since 2011-2014.
https://gallery.qatar.vcu.edu/city-limits/
