Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation
HISTORIAS DE MADRID
Fernando Baena
Start date
End date
Venue
Nave 17. Nave una
Programme
The history of the city and its landscapes, performed by ten artists or collectives from Madrid, including a series of videos that encompass the work by Fernando Baena entitled Stories from Madrid. It delves into the concept of contextualisation in relation to the disciplines of video, performance and history. Within the limits of these disciplines, fundamental topics are questioned, such as presence, real time and specific space, everyday life, the ephemeral, non-repeatability or records.
History works through absence, as opposed to performance art, which works through presence. It revisits and reconstructs the past through footprints, documents and archives, ultimately influencing the present. The active presence of the performer entails history and fiction, as the fundamental difference between both fields is the claim to truth of the first, and we all know that rhetoric governs its descriptions. In this work, past events are used to stimulate sensitivity. They thus constitute the basis for a mental construction that brings together two moments in space-time according to the most immediate concerns of each artist.
Contextualised performance art removes some of the barriers between the work and the audience and attempts to interact with them by involving the audience in social reality and its many issues. It therefore prefers open spaces, where people are found, beyond galleries and museums, emphasising lived experience within that which can be experienced.
The participating artists are Rafael Sánchez Mateos, Anna Gimein, Velvet & Crochet, Andrés Senra, Pepe Murciego, Marianela León, Discoteca Flaming Star, Rubén Santiago, Nieves Correa - Abel Loureda andLos Torreznos.
History works through absence, as opposed to performance art, which works through presence. It revisits and reconstructs the past through footprints, documents and archives, ultimately influencing the present. The active presence of the performer entails history and fiction, as the fundamental difference between both fields is the claim to truth of the first, and we all know that rhetoric governs its descriptions. In this work, past events are used to stimulate sensitivity. They thus constitute the basis for a mental construction that brings together two moments in space-time according to the most immediate concerns of each artist.
Contextualised performance art removes some of the barriers between the work and the audience and attempts to interact with them by involving the audience in social reality and its many issues. It therefore prefers open spaces, where people are found, beyond galleries and museums, emphasising lived experience within that which can be experienced.
The participating artists are Rafael Sánchez Mateos, Anna Gimein, Velvet & Crochet, Andrés Senra, Pepe Murciego, Marianela León, Discoteca Flaming Star, Rubén Santiago, Nieves Correa - Abel Loureda andLos Torreznos.
