This workshop takes as its starting point the polarity of the work of the two participating artists: Paco Chanivet and Miquel García. Chanivet, interested in science fiction, technology and horror novels, develops in his work a symbiosis where reality and fiction are confused. Garcia combines collaborative practices with participative processes in which memory and the rescue of hidden stories build scenarios of multiple identities.

The work space, conceived as a laboratory in which search and creation coexist, proposes the creation of a multiple work group in which work is carried out around film essays and speculative fiction as a means of investigation, expression and knowledge of our closest environment.

Starting from the domestic and proximity, the workshop adopts essays and fiction as ductile, malleable and elastic genres to approach audiovisual creation as a form of criticism and thought and to elaborate, with the workshop participants, a series of audiovisual pieces with a critical spirit that serve as a space for experimentation, learning and reflection.

This exhibition is the result of the visual arts workshop Alfabet inacabat per a L’Hospitalet [“Unfinished Alphabet for L’Hospitalet”], organised by visual artists Matteo Guidi and Mireia Sallarès. The exhibition shows the video works produced by the workshop participants (Leonardo Esteban Montes, Victoria Ávila Sánchez, Iván Cejalvo Martí, Fabiana Rocio Ortega and Iliane Caparrós Àvila) and their respective ways of formulating local and universal questions about a context, L’Hospitalet, conceived as an alphabet that is available to anyone. At a time of social, political, economic and emotional instability, apparently raw documents can help us understand the problems that surround us and to find artistically powerful ways to read and explain our diverse context.

VIDEOS IN THE EXHIBITION

Iliane Caparrós Àvila, Hogar, 2018 –> link
Victoria Ávila Sánchez, Inmigración, 2018 –> link
Iván Cejalvo Martí, Lacónico, 2018 –> link
Fabiana Rocio Ortega, Peso, 2018 –> link
Leonardo Esteban Montes, Soledad, 2018 –> link

At a time of social, political, economic and emotional instability, apparently cold documents can help us understand the problems that surround us and find artistically powerful ways to read and explain our diverse context. For many artists, concept alphabets or glossaries have been a subversive tool to directly understand the context in which we live: in this case, l’Hospitalet. With a video art workshop, artists Matteo Guidi and Mireia Sallarès develop, along with the participants (Leonardo Esteban Montes, Victoria Ávila Sánchez, Iván Cejalvo Martí, Fabiana Rocio Ortega, Iliane Caparrós Àvila), different ways to pose local and general questions about a context understood as an alphabet that is available to everyone.

Within the framework of the LOOP Festival, Casa Asia hosts the presentation of the audiovisual project Origin, Body, City by the artists Claudio Zulian and Matteo Guidi, both with professional careers that fit perfectly with the themes that propose this project.

The proposal is based on the creation of a film, which is the outcome of the work done by the participants in the workshops led by Claudio Zulian and Matteo Guidi at the Torre Barrina de l’Hospitalet center. As a contribution to the general theme of the LOOP Festival, the beginnings of video art, the project is a personal meditation that covers some elements of the work of Nam June Paik. It is also an exploration of the city of l’Hospitalet through the performance of a group of young people of the Ithaca Association, and some images that indicate the urban environment.
Participants:
Claudio Zulian, artista and filmmaker, director of the audiovisual production Acteon, with which he supports numerous cultural projects.

Matteo Guidi, artist and anthropologist, licenced in Visual Communication and graduated in Ethno-anthropology from the University of Bologna.
Presented by:
Menene Gras Balaguer, director of Cultura and Expositions, Casa Asia.

This film is the joint work of participants of the workshop led by artists Claudio Zulian (Campodarsego, Italy, 1960) and Matteo Guidi (Italy, 1978) at the centre Torre Barrina in l’Hospitalet. As contribution to the overall theme of this year’s LOOP Festival on the beginnings of video art, the film offers a personal meditation on Nam June Paik’s oeuvre. It is also an exploration of the city of l’Hospitalet through the performance of young members of the local Associació Ítaca and the images that the urban environment suggests.

Participants of Cultur_Lab de Torre Barrina: Victoria Ávila, Ivan Bassols, Illiane Caparrós y Martín Palkvov.

To view the short film, please visit the following link: http://loop-barcelona.com/artist-video/origen-cuerpo-ciudad/