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1+1+1…: ‘They Come From Afar’ by Anna Dot

9 — 19 November 2021

— Curated by Marta Pol Rigau

Anna Dot, 'They Come from Afar', 2020. Still from video, courtesy of the artist
Anna Dot, 'They Come from Afar', 2020. Still from video, courtesy of the artist
Artists
Anna Dot
Curators
Marta Pol Rigau
Venue
Centre Excursionista de Catalunya
Price
Free admission
Date and hours
9 — 19 November 2021 Add to calendar
Additional info
From Monday to Thursday from 10:30a.m. to 1p.m. and 5p.m. to 9p.m.,
On Friday from 10:30a.m. to 1p.m.
The project 'Venen de lluny' by artist Anna Dot is part of the delocalized itinerary "1+1+1...", that will unfold throughout the Gothic and El Born neighborhoods from November 9th 21st.

The village Vall de Santa Creu is crossed by many paths that allow us to cross the mountains of Rodes from a side to the other quite easily. With all this in mind, They come from afar is a walk initats at Palau Saverdera with destination to Vall de Santa Creu.

The route pass across many points that evidence the antiquity of these paths such as the group of dolmens of Fontasia, Sant Onofre church, Mas Ventós, Santa Helena church, Sant Pere de Rodes monastery and the stone huds that can be found around Coll Perer.

For centuries humans have been using these paths, crossing the mountains in all directions. But it’s been not only us. Also the birds cross them through their paths in the sky. This video piece begins from an initial parallelism between land and air routes.

Anna Dot

Artist
annadot.net

1991, Vic

Anna Dot

Anna Dot is an artist and PhD in Translation by the University of Vic (2019). She combines artistic research with teaching at BAU, and is also a member of the directive team at the School of Arts of Torelló. Her work, represented by Bombon Projects in Barcelona, is centred on the study of translation and communicative acts, putting the focus on the processes of reading and writing beyond linguistic limits. The processes and materials with which she works depend on the ideas that she is working at every moment. Her link to the notion of walking as an artistic practice, which is worked by collectives like Deriva Mussol, from Vic, or the projects like Grand Tour, by Nau Coclea, is evidenced by some of Dot’s projects, such as her intervention at the Walter Benjamin Route 2016, her performance at Bianyal 2017, the interventions for the program “Naturalesa no és paisatge – Escenes erràtiques” at ARBAR in the summer 2020, or the series of routes “Octavianes”, initiated collectively and still in the process of being realised.

Last update August 15th, 2023

Marta Pol Rigau

Marta Pol Rigau

PhD and degree in Art History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, studies at Sotheby’s Educational Studies, London, “Master in Cultural Management” and Postgraduate Diploma in “Cultural Management and Policies” from the University of Barcelona.

From his professional beginnings until today, he has combined curatorial practice with research and publication in specialized journals. Recently, he curated the re-enactment project-essay at the Casa de Cultura de Girona (2021-22); has collaborated in the exhibition “Action. A Provisional History of the 90s” at the MACBA (2020); since 2012 he has directed the ARBAR Art and Culture Center (Association for Biocultural and Artistic Research of the Sierra de Rodes), the Santa Creu Valley, the Port de la Selva, Girona; and,co-directs Fugas e interferencias- Performance Art Conference held by the CGAC of Santiago de Compostela, with the support of the University of Vigo (2016-present).