This project, which began as a research project on scientific theories concerning the infinitely large and the infinitely small, is put forward as a glance cast at science “by a rather unscientific mind.” Formulating a number of recurring existential questions, such as “who are we?” “Where are we going?” “What is the universe?” “Is it infinite?” “Where does it end?” “what was there before the Big Bang?”, led Cris Blanco (Madrid) to lay the foundations for ciencia-ficción, a performance, concert, and audio-visual reflection on subject of the cosmos and what lies beyond, in 2012.
Cris Blanco was born in Madrid and she lives in Barcelona. From 2003 she realizes her own scenic pieces and she is employed as interpreter at performance, dance, theatre and cinema. The transformation of codes and objects, the mixture of scenic kinds, the live music, the tricks at sight, the science-fiction and to make the theatrical device visible are present in her work.
Some of her scenic works are cUADRADO_fLECHA_pERSONA qUE cORRE (2004), TELETRANsPORTATION (2010), ciencia_ficción (2010) The Set Up in collaboration with Cuqui Jerez, María Jerez, Amaia Urra and Gilles Gentner. The live movie El Agitador Vórtex (2014) and Bad Translation (2016) created in collaboration with scar Bueno, Javier Cruz, Cris Celada, Amaranta Velarde and Ayara Hernández.
Carolina Ciuti is a contemporary art curator and researcher in the fields of visual and performing arts. She holds a BA in History and Preservation of the Artistic Heritage from the University of Florence (2009-2012) and an MA in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London (2013-2015). During her university training, she collaborated with the Collezione Gori: Fattoria di Celle (Pistoia) and the artists residency Villa Lena (Pisa), being respectively in charge of the educational proposals, the guided tours and the assistance to the director. She currently serves as artistic director of the LOOP video art festival in Barcelona, where she started working in 2015 as a curator. At LOOP, she has produced exhibitions, film programmes and performances by internationally recognised artists such as: Regina de Miguel, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Aleksandra Mir, Muntadas, Steina and Woody Vasulka and Anton Vidokle. She curated the group exhibitions And If Seeing Was Fire (Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2020), One Day I Stumbled Upon A Meteorite (Fabra i Coats – Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, 2019), PRODUCE, PRODUCE, PRODUCED (Real Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, 2018), the projects Francesca Banchelli: Before The Name (MACBA, Barcelona, 2016) and TRANSEUROPE EXPRESS (OfficeCafè, Pistoia, 2015), as well as the video programmes presented by LOOP at Cinéphèmère-FIAC Paris (editions 2017, 2018, 2019). She edited the publications One Day I Stumbled Upon a Meteorite (exhibition catalogue, stuffinabook, 2020), I Have A Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once (LOOP Barcelona, Mousse Publishing, 2016) and Before The Name: a book on an itinerant performance project. (RAM Editions, 2018). Ciuti is a permanent collaborator of the magazine of contemporary culture La Maleta de Portbou and she frequently contributes to the art catalogues of the publishing house Istituto Italiano Edizioni ATLAS. In 2017, she co-founded the art collective CRiB to create hybrid projects straddling the visual arts, theatre and performance. Whether through writing, curating, or research, all of Carolina’s projects denote a deep interest in the notion of ‘time’ in all its facets, its representation in the philosophical and cultural sphere, and its influence on the construction of identities.
Last update 3rd October 2020