A-PLACE: Creating space through sound
Tuesday 21 November 2023, 3 — 4 pm
- Participants
- Carolina Jiménez, Arnau Horta i Sellarès, ALMARE Collective, Ananú Gonzales Posada and Aura Satz
- Moderator
- Victoria Sacco
- Venues
- Almanac Barcelona
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Professional meeting that is part of the A-Place program, focused on the intersections between sound and architecture. The meeting will focus on the dynamic relationship between sound and space, exploring how the auditory dimension contributes to the creation and perception of physical environments. The meeting provides a platform for professionals to exchange ideas and conceptual frameworks, and to share projects.
Carolina Jiménez
- Curator
Barcelona
Carolina Jiménez is a curator and researcher. She lives and works in Barcelona, where she combines her work as an independent curator with institutional practice. Since 2019, she has been responsible for research programs and knowledge transfer at HANGAR. Previously, she was the academic director of the Independent Study Program (PEI) at MACBA. In various formats, her work has been presented at the Fundació Miró, La Casa Encendida, the Museu de la Música de Barcelona, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Matadero Madrid, Centro Párraga, Vera Cortes Cortês, Twin Gallery, TBA21, among other contexts. Until 2017, she lived in Berlin, where she held curatorial and research roles at SAVVY Contemporary, Transmediale-CTM Vorspiel, Berlin Art Week, Bethanien, Grimmuseum, GlogauAir, or Altes Finanzamt. She writes for art publications, as well as exhibition catalogs and artist monographs.
Arnau Horta i Sellarès
- Curator, Participant
1977
Arnau Horta is an independent curator, art critic and researcher. In Spain, he curated projects for the MACBA, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the CCCB, Sónar, Caixafòrum, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the philosophy festival Barcelona Pensa and La Casa Encendida, among others. He is Professor at the European Institute for Design (IED), and a usual contributor to the supplements ‘Cultura/s’ (La Vanguardia) and ‘Babelia’ (El País).
22 March 2017
ALMARE Collective
- Artist, Collective
- www.almareproject.it
ALMARE is an artistic-curatorial collective dedicated to practices and researches using sound as means of expression. In particular, ALMARE investigates the notion of listening and how it affects social and political dynamics. ALMARE works in curating, writing, publishing, collective research and sound and music production. In 2020 ALMARE started the production of “Life Chronicles of Dorothea Iesj S.P.U.”, a sci-fi audio-novel supported by the Italian Council – Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. In 2021, ALMARE contributed to found the Turin-based network The Listeners together with Metamorfosi Notturne and Cripta 747.
ALMARE collaborated with national and international institutions such as Fondazione Baruchello, Rome (IT); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR); Hangar, Barcelona (ES); MACAO, Milan (IT); MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art, Bologna (IT); Polo del ‘900, Turin (IT); Radio Papesse, Florence (IT); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT); Timespan, Helmsdale (UK) and has involved artists, musicians, djs, philosophers and researchers including Vinit Agarwal, Thomas Ankersmit, Antwood, Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Federico Campagna, Eleni Ikoniadou & Viki Steiri, Enrico Malatesta, Porpora Marcasciano, Marina Rosenfeld, Carl Stone.
Supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona
Updated: 15 November 2023
Ananú Gonzales Posada
- Artist, Curator
- www.instagram.com/avioninvisible
Lives and works between Barcelona, London and Lima. She got her BA Fine Arts from the Universidad de Barcelona, specializing with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL London and completed a Postgraduate Degree in Education in the London Institute of Education. Her work has been exhibited through Europe, UK and South America. She has also curated group and individual shows in London and Barcelona. She recently showed at the Swab Art Fair this Oct 2023 and has taught in different colleges and art schools in Barcelona and London.
Ananú ‘s work conveys a contemporary practice in which she incorporates drawing, painting, installation work, objects, and photography, always from a pictorial perspective. The artist highlights the subtle margins that surround us, questioning the meaning of space and integrating it into the concept of the work. In her work the materials and poetic concept stand out, the innate nature of the materials, their bareness, and the contradictions demonstrate a constant strength in vulnerability. This unveils a political, sociological and poetic humanity.
“My starting point comes from urban life and fixed or temporary architecture, human movement and the objects that surround us. We live among waste, functional structures or displaced objects as invisible entities that project connection. All that remains is to observe the trace of the journey that leaves a residue of movement or a wink of the passage of time. Pungent scents, dog urine, sticks, stains, moving shadows, light shimmers, boxes, shapes, noises or chewing gum. I am interested in exploring and highlighting the subtle margins between the object and poetry that are created between encounters on the street. In these precise or random connections, I hope to find a visual story that kindles an emotion. Thus, questioning space and the perception we have of it, interrogating the fragility of our own nature, contradictions, loneliness and beauty in simple or discarded gestures.
Uncontrolled flow of information and the saturation of cities, reality seems to be an oasis. My work is an unceasing process of research where the connection and encounters of these materials and visual gestures long to communicate. “
Aura Satz
Aura Satz’s work involves a mix of film, sound, performance and sculpture, focusing on the idea of ventriloquism to conceptualise a shared and expanded notion of voice. Her work is created in conversation by using dialogue as both method and subject. She has staged performances and exhibitions at the Tate Modern, BFI Southbank, New York Film Festival, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, NTT InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, SFMOMA, San Francisco, Rotterdam Film Festival, MoMA NY, Sonic Acts or Kunsternes Hus, among others.
