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Puertas de Castilla Center presents its new programming betting on research, innovation and creativity for the development of thought, art, technology and science with the main objective of introducing in its study areas the use and application of technologies, the transformations of the image and new media around all kinds of artistic disciplines.
Thus, Puertas de Castilla proposes in part of its programming projects that not only promote growth through the creation of value, but also have become key elements of the system of artistic innovation.
In this sense, a program is developed related to the uses of advanced technologies and their application in contemporary creation destined to favor creation and knowledge in contemporary art.
The Puertas de Castilla, this season becomes an exhibition space and a laboratory open to production, research, training and dissemination of art and science, which are related to the new technologies of information technology, telecommunications, photography and video that generate situations of encounter, debate and reflection on aspects of reality and contemporary culture.
This creates a transversal program, aimed at all audiences, with the aim of sharing knowledge and offering different ways to get involved with the different lines of programming of the Center trying to demonstrate that there are contemporary creative discourses and creators that meet the latest artistic trends related to science, and that this is decisive, not only for the establishment of a common fabric that facilitates the assumption of identity and the formation of critical spirits, but also scientists.
Puertas de Castilla bets on art, science and technology as a complex system that obtains value from a system that produces attention, complexity, identity and adaptation through the primary resource of creativity.
According to this vision, the projects that will be developed in the Center will be nurtured by different artists, curators, students and professors that stimulate this discipline of innovation, and will work in a benefit for the city.
In this sense, the new program presented by the Puertas de Castilla Center "will invest" again in a breeding ground that will generate favorable conditions for the evolution of artistic work related to art and technology at the local level so that it becomes a necessary, profitable and sustainable task that results in a general benefit for all areas of society.
Exhibition projects
IMMERSION.
MARINA NUÑEZ
From February 21 to May 2
The exhibition 'Immersion', inaugurated on Thursday at 8:00 pm, curated by Daniel Soriano and Pablo Sandoval, immerses us in a journey through fractal worlds, endless infinite vegetal and geometric architecture.
A journey through hidden hollows in the stony landscape that ends up revealing us to its inhabitants, whose skin repeats the fractal pattern of the landscape.
"The fractal is 'self-similar', and they are similar to the landscape," says the author.
This repetition of the environment in their skins brings up some questions, have these beings related to their environment been created or have they, in a great feat, built this habitat in their own way?
Whatever the answer Marina Nunez questions the concept of landscape and body, its limits and the behaviors that are developed by individuals towards the environment, either closeness and equality, or control and domination.
From different pop culture references that fluctuate in the fractal pattern, science fiction, cyborgs, Mexican fighting masks or tattoos, the ornament is the main protagonist.
In an exercise of clear rebellion towards the classic denominations of the Fine Arts Núñez vindicates the decorative arts, traditionally associated with women, not as a minor art, but as a true vehicle of high concepts.
Marina Núñez represents in her works different beings, aberrant, monstrous, those that exist on the margin or against the canon.
The anomalous bodies that populate his paintings, infographics or videos speak to us of a metamorphic, hybrid, multiple identity.
It recreates a destabilized and impure subjectivity for which otherness is not something alien, but basically constitutes the human being.
His work appears in collections of various institutions, among which are the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, the Artium of Vitoria, the MUSAC of León, the Herreriano Courtyard of Valladolid, the Panera de Lleida, the TEA of Tenerife, the CAAM of Las Palmas, Es Baluard of Palma de Mallorca, the La Caixa Foundation, the Botín Foundation, the MAC of La Coruña, the CAB of Burgos, the FRAC Corse, or the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
MU-TANTES.
Project directed by Cristóbal Sánchez.
From March 29 to April 30
Mu-tantes is an interdisciplinary project that seeks the virus that one carries inside, the most personal and experimental vision of the visual.
The project aims to make us see everything that has been lost, has not been seen or has not been developed, and that consequently changed into something else.
The evolution of species occurs through mutation, a process that allows us to adapt to the natural environment in which we live.
To adapt to the environment, learning and putting experimentation into practice is essential.
Mu-tantes is the result of the instinctive need that the human being has to experiment to learn and to learn through experimentation.
Among the selected artists are: Alejandro Mellado, Cristina Franco, Deborah Brocal, Isaac Rupérez, J. Miguel Valenzuela, José Navarro, Lola Baños, Mª Dolores Ortega, María Lempicka, Pablo Lorente, Susana Marlo, all coordinated by Estudio Maba, F33, Germinal & Brando Love, Taberno de Ideas and Eduardo del Fraile.
LABORATORY OF IMAGINARIES FOR A LANDSCAPE IN CRISIS: RESET MAR MENOR.
From May 9 to 30
The project is an open and transdisciplinary working group composed of artists, scientists and platforms to collaboratively rethink the Mar Menor and its surroundings.
With confidence in artistic images as triggers of scientific thought and critical action, with the ability to activate alternative stories, we promote different actions to understand and respond from a new perspective to the problems of one of the most unique and admired natural landscapes.
Curated by Clara Boj and Diego Díaz, the exhibition proposal and program of activities that includes the research processes carried out so far and the actions in progress that are part of the project of the University of Murcia and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.
Among the participants will be among others Paul Sermon, Jeremiah Ambrose, Charlotte Gould (UK), Christina Stadlbauer (AU),? Light Laboratory (ES),? Maria Ptqk (ES),? Susana Cámara and Maria Boto (ES) ?
all selected in the international call for projects of Art-Science-Technology and Ecology.
The program will be completed with a conference of Art and Science with lectures by Mónica Bello (Director of the Arts at CERN program) and Pau Alsina (Director of Art Nodes) and meeting between artists and scientists from the Region.
R & D + i + a GENDER.
From June 6 to September 25
Located in the exhibition hall, the I + D + i Project directed by the professor of Fine Arts and curator Isabel Tejeda as a result of the work of the master in production and artistic management of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia after performing a deep investigation around the genre, they will propose solutions and unreal situations that rethink the commitment and the situation of that reality
Facilities
MIRROR CITY.
MICHAEL SHAINBLUM.
From March 20 to July 30
The project Mirror city, by the artist Michael Shainblum, recreates the classic effect of the kaleidoscope, where cities like Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, provided the perfect material with its shapes, buildings, traffic lights and streets, playing with the time and the mirror effect, to achieve this final aspect of the video;
"A plethora of visual stimulation", in the words of the artist himself.
Focused on the portrait of landscape and aerial shots, Michael has worked in photography and film for 11 years since he was 16, standing out for his ability to capture scenes and moments through a surreal visual narration.
In Mirror City, the aim of this new exhibition is twofold: on the one hand, it aims to show the latest video creations produced in the international territory and explore the incursions of technology in photography and video creation.
Devoid of stable structures in terms of production and financing of works and with certain ambiguities when considering their exhibition, video creation attracts artists for the inherent freedom of the format while offering them new challenges.
KOGONADA.
Audiovisual installation.
From March 20 to April 30
Over the last few years, through the various online video platforms and specialized media, there has been an interesting renewal of the "video-essay" as a tool for film criticism.
This evolution is the result of the proliferation of numerous channels and artists that offer their particular version of this format, which has reached a considerable audience.
Under the pseudonym of Kogonada (a tribute to the Japanese scriptwriter Kogo Noda, a regular collaborator of Yasujiro Ozu), the identity of an American professor, artist and filmmaker of South Korean origin is hidden.
His works are small pieces full of lyricism and meaning, with hardly any text or narration, focused on analyzing the aesthetic dimension of works and directors such as Bergman, Hitchcock or even Ozu.
They are not purely didactic reflections: kogonada does not try to impose a thesis or specific reading on the viewer.
On the contrary, the free and pure exploration of form, of the internal mechanisms employed by these great filmmakers and that end up conforming what we call their "brand" or "personal stamp", is prime in their videos.
RF Audiovisual installation
About me: a musical 30 '1971 |
S-8 Stones Footage from Exile on Main St. 8 '1971 |
Keep Busy 44 '1975
From May 13 to July 31
R. Frank is one of the most recognized photographers in the world, but he not only revolutionized the art of photography, but also independent cinema.
His portraits and snapshots of everyday life captured moments as diverse as the lives of London bankers, Scottish miners, Beat generation or rock stars like the Rolling Stones.
His filmography, practically unknown in our country, brings to light the singular role that it had in his artistic career.
At the end of the fifties, at the same time that he began to be recognized professionally, he temporarily abandoned photography to become a filmmaker.
In his films he covers multiple formats that go from direct or pseudo documentary cinema to the road-movie or the personal diary-, he facilitates a more detailed analysis of the decisive influence that the cinema exerted in the narrative and sequential aspects of his photography.
Lift
RI: KURO & AKA.
From March 20 to July 30
In the mid-'90s techno music was established as a genre of predictable formula and clearly oriented to Dance.
It was as well as, parallel to this scenario, a group of electronic music producers eager to expand the edges to new territories, more experimental these, and with a spirit of search.
The desire for experimentation led many of them to dive for the history of electronic music in its primary and avant-garde aspect in search of inspiration.
The most notable composers of this new generation took those abstract ideas, and recycling them with their own, they generated a new scene, but most importantly, they created a conceptual mode of creation absolutely detached from the dance floors, relapsing and orienting those sounds towards a public more "cerebral" - if you want - and giving a turn to the immense and rich history of the genre.
Suddenly these restless aesthetes became familiar with the works of that misunderstood old guard of the '50s and' 60s.
That influence of Musique Concrete, Tape Music and Electroacoustic became the foundation and inspiration to expand the new stylistic movement.
This one was called: glitch.
The elevator in the center again becomes the central axis of the sound installation of this phenomenon of clicks and cuts with RI: Kuro & Aka;
a work that develops trying to create a context of interpretation for different sounds that provide the listener with a framework of very suggestive sensations.
RI: kuro & Aka employs raw data and mathematical models to produce music.
What at first is intuited as a battle of digital noise, hum and low harmonics, gradually manages to involve the listener with elements of techno music, austere visuals and percussion textures.
The installation constructs, through various fragments, a flow that brings together the visual and auditory dimensions, and reveals, between codes and calculations, a pulsating heart, as well as the arithmetic and computational essence of sound.
Movie theater
And as always more different cinema at the international level always starting from the most commercial of independent cinema and the most independent of commercial cinema, in order to deepen the analysis of different films within the universe of contemporary cinema and its multiple paradigms, as well as propitiate the reflection on the meaning of the images, is installed in the center to make a review of the trends and understand the different film models of cinema produced in other countries and review the most unknown figures.
DISTÓPIC CITIES
Monday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m.
BRAZIL
Terry Gilliam
1985, 132 '
Tuesday, April 9 at 8 p.m.
1984. Michael Radford.
1984. 113 '
Wednesday, April 10 at 8 p.m.
VIDEODROME
David Cronenberg.
1983. 87 '
BLACKXPLOTATION
Monday, May 6 at 8 p.m.
Black Caesar
Larry Cohen, 1973, 87 '
Tuesday, May 7 at 8:00 p.m.
Blacula.
William Crain, 1972, 93 '
Wednesday, May 8 at 8 p.m.
Shaft.
Gordon Parks.
1971. 100 '
MIDNIGHT CINEMA
Monday, June 17 at 9:00 p.m.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman, 1975. 100 '
Tuesday, June 18 at 9:00 p.m.
Cisco Pike.
Bill Norton
1972, 95 '
Wednesday, June 19 at 9:00 p.m.
Performance
Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg, 1970. 105 '
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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