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3/3/2010

FEM_10

Centro Cultural de la Merce', Girona

The cultural affiliation Gresol organizes for the seventh year in a row the International performance art/live art festival showcasing the work of women, the only festival in Spain since it assembles performers of the whole world. One year more, the festival will take place in the Cultural Centre Mercè de Girona under the title FEM_10 from March 4 until March 8. In parallel with the actions, an International Seminar will be celebrated on performance with the participation of recognized teachers and critiques of art that will take place in Facultat de Lletres of the UdG.

For the first time, the festival will take the live art to the street, with the intention of bringing this art not known to the whole world over, with performances of the artists taking part in the Rambla of Girona. As every year, there appears a day of workshops directed by the artists for students of centers of artistic education and young artists and a free workshop for all the public ones. During the festival, also it will be possible to see a sample of projections and photography transferred by other festivals of live art with which FEM collaborates.

From the reflections and the debate to the past edition on the art of action, there has been created ELAC (Europaean Live Art Center), a center of archive and investigation of the performance with head office in Girona, the first one of these characteristics in Spain. The whole visual and written material that is gathered from the FEM will be a part of this archive. The target is to gather information about the live art and to document her for the investigation and the teaching.

In this edition, FEM_10 has the target to produce a homage to the women artists who have centred his life on the creativity and, at the same time, to give space to young artists representatives of the new generations of the art of action. For this motive, this edition of the festival will devote itself to a generation of artists who have been fundamental for the development of the live art on a global scale. The festival will investigate the idea of the transmission of the knowledge between generations.

For this motive, recognized artists have been invited and with a big trajectory in the world of the art as Esther Ferrer (Donosti, 1937), Despina Olbrich-Marianou (Greece, 1945), Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941), Myriam Bat-Yosef (Germany, 1931) and Eugenie Kuffler (Baltimore/EE.UU., 1949). Bat-Yosef and Kuffler repeat expressly for the FEM a performance that they realized together in the year 1982. Also, it will be the first performance of Bat-Yosef in 20 years.

Opposite to the experience, at the FEM_10 also new artists will be present but with a big projection, as Alba Blanco (Vigo, 1981), Christine Haase (Berlin, 1981), Holly Slingsby (Oxford, 1983) and Pa'Ma Torrents (Lleida, 1984).

PROGRAM
04 March 2010, 10.30 Opening with performance by Concha Jerez (in Facultat de Lletres of University of Girona)
04 March, 11.30 conference with Tracey Warr (in Facultat de Lletres of University of Girona)
05 March, Conference of Alice Laagay and Blanca de la Torre (in University of Girona)
06 March, 19.00 Performance of Esther Ferrer, Concha Jerez, Despina Olbrich and Myriam Bat-Yosef

Contact Denys Blacker
info@gresolart.com
http://www.gresolart.com

Opening: 04 March 2010, 10.30

Cultural Centre Mercè de Girona
Pda. de la Merce', 12
admission free

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