Performance & Architecture

Antiguo Edificio de Tabacalera , Madrid

A reflexion on art and architecture with artists, curators, architects and critics. Artists and architects work at the limits of their disciplines, blurring the borders between them, in order to explore and reflect on the architectonic aspirations of art, and the artistic aspirations of architecture. Focussing on subjects such as the city, space, the body, and memory, they tackle their disciplines 'speaking about art from architecture and about architecture from art'.

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curated by Ariadna Cantis

For the fourth year running, the Ministry of Culture is organising the International Art is Action Forum. Going under the title Performance & Architecture, it is made up of a performance workshop and an exhibition, both of which will be held in Antiguo Edificio de Tabacalera, and a forum for reflexion on art and architecture, which will be held at the Ministry of Culture Auditorium.

The project is curated by Ariadna Cantis, an independent architectural curator who divides her activities between spreading knowledge of architecture, research and curating, through projects, exhibitions and publications, with the aim of generating critical opinion on architecture and contemporary culture.

At this 4th Art is Action forum, artists and architects will be working at the limits of their disciplines, blurring the borders between them, in order to explore and reflect on the architectonic aspirations of art, and the artistic aspirations of architecture. Focussing on subjects such as the city, space, the body, and memory, they will tackle their disciplines 'speaking about art from architecture and about architecture from art'.

The participating artists, curators, architects and critics are: Didier Faustino, Pilar Echezarreta, Luis úrculo, Martin Huberman, Darya von Berner, Andrés Jaque, Héctor Zamora, Bestué – Vives, Pedro Gadanho, Theo Lorenz, Iván López Munuera, Selina Blasco, Carson Chan and Ruth Estevez.

10 NOV ▪ PERFORMANCES
Antiguo Edificio de Tabacalera.
Each artist/architect will be allocated a specific space in which to carry out his/her performance, action or installation.

11 NOV ▪ FORUM P&A LAB
MCU Auditorium
Calle San Marcos, 40 - Madrid
Forum at which successive artists, architects and international curators will present their work, followed by discussion and reflection on the rise of performance in architecture as well as on the use of spatial practices by contemporary artists to colonize vacant plots.

11-27 NOV ▪ EXHIBITION
Antiguo Edificio de Tabacalera
The exhibition will display the work carried out during the development of the performances through a making of video, an installation, action or element that is a symbolic reminder of what happened there, as well as two video installations by artists, one on the city (Héctor Zamora) and the other on domestic space (Bestué Vives).

Image: Martin Huberman, Cuelgue colectivo, 2011

Performances opening: 10 NOV - 7pm

4th International Forum Art is Action: 11 NOV - 19:00 – 22:00h. Free entry

Opens to the public: 11 NOV - 7PM

Antiguo Edificio de Tabacalera
Calle Embajadores, 53. Madrid
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday: 12pm – 8pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 11am – 8pm
Closed Mondays
Free admission

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Jose' Manuel Ballester
dal 6/2/2013 al 27/4/2013