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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today announced the schedule of AlterArte Emerging Artists Festival 2009, to be held from 19 to 25 October and a total of 150 developers conducted 62 activities.
Also attending the ceremony the director of the Institute of Youth in the Region of Murcia, Veronica Lopez, and directors of the festival, Hernán Rodríguez and Sergio Porlán.
For one week, the streets, plazas and other spaces from the center of Murcia will become the stage for the most avant-garde performances in the performing arts, visual, sound art and urban interventions.
Cruz said that "AlterArte 2009 holds the record for participation with over 150 artists," adding that "this edition is the best of the previous four."
In addition, Cruz said, "This year, the spirit of celebration and participation that has been defined since its creation AlterArte add another set of features that are characteristic of the centers that run its directors, Art Forum and Laboratory of Youth Art as, for example, support for emerging cultural fabric of the region, research, assessment of the artistic process rather than the result itself and the definition of culture as close and not as something distant and unreachable. "
Among the scheduled performances, the minister of Culture stated that "one of the jewels of this issue is the performance AlterArte La Ribot with the performace 'Laughing Hole'."
In the representation, the artist from Madrid, accompanied by two dancers, build a facility where they interact with the public in a speech of five hours, through symbols, but especially of hysterical laughter and the laughter as critical instruments social.
The dance company of Bilbao 'Organik' represent 'Wicked', a show based on the sculptures of 'cursed children' of Alberto Saavedra who, in turn, was inspired by the movie 'The Village of the Damned. "
Will close the festival, the Portuguese of the Teatro do Mar, with 'Nusquam', a work in which through multiple scenarios and unit, reinforcing the thematic idea of isolation and social mediocrity of our century.
Among the artists in the region of Murcia, Aisa Boa represent 'Where? ", A performance in which dance' Butoh ', an expression of Japanese dance is an act of introspection, pain and death, and art action go hand in hand in the encounter with the silence of the movement.
Sara Serrano also involved with 'N1M', an interactive installation on migration, and Ignacio Lopez Moreno artists 'Headling Macarena' or Ramón González Palazón with 'Zero'.
As for the 16 projects of urban intervention, selected from the 40 that were submitted through the convocation of the Institute for Youth, Murcia collectives and artists display their ideas in different parts of the city center, offering various proposals, such as facilities which like frames, boxes, parts of the city, interventions in different parts of the road as a interactive sound sculpture designed and created to be handled by the public (lung sound), or 'flasmob', an organized action to performed with a group of joint action.
In visual arts, among others, will participate Asturian painter Fernando Gutierrez with "Chrysalis, 2009 ', a collage of everyday images from different media, reproduced from a drawing intuitive.
And sound intervention, Aneas Iris, creator of electronic music, will present a work in which the process of creation takes place by surprise, and in which their sounds are looking for the unexpected.
The program is completed with emerging artists who have worked at national and international interventions in the street as: Carlos Irijalba, Carlos Aires, Juan Zamora, Pablo Valbuena and Charles Schwartz and other artists already established as Daniel Canogar and Bernardi Roig, who exercise point of contact and reference for emerging artists.
Two performing arts events in the region of Murcia will open the festival on October 19 at 20:00 pm in the Plaza del Romea: Saorin's performance in dance with the work 'Re (m) placement / network / affection' and an hour later, the Glorieta of Spain, the dance theater company and represent Expresso 'Senza Voi'.
Also, that day will open urban interventions.
Source: CARM
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