Orbits on Black: Three Essays on Movement. Guasch Coranty Grants 2023–24
The movement of the gesture, of migratory flows, of the stars in orbit. This zoom-out, or zoom-in if we read it in reverse, is the sequence proposed by the three projects awarded grants by the Fundació Guasch Coranty in the 2023–24 academic year.
Three installations that are activated by the presence of other over the course of the programme of parallel activities designed in partnership. Ivonne Villamil, Ana Cosac and Helena Laguna present concomitant points of view, but all three address the question of how to make movement – the movement that continues us and connects us – visible or audible.
ACTIVITIES:
2024
Under construction. 11 December 2024 (1.00-2.30 pm)
During this tour, Ivonne Villamil will present the process for producing and assembling an art installation to pupils in the fourth year of compulsory education at the Institut La Sedeta secondary school as part of the IN RESiDENCE programme.
Meteoro. 12 December 2024 (vernissage) (7.30 pm)
Session of experimentation with sound and improvisation based on scientific data, weather reports and recordings in the field. Ivonne Villamil.
2025
Identities in Motion: Approaches to the (Re)Formulation of Memory between the Moroccan Community and the Rumanian Community (Ziduri de Trecere and the Al’Akhawat Collective). 14 January 2025 (7.00 pm)
Collaborative conversation and workshop with the Al’Akhawat collective in which we will be addressing from an artistic perspective questions related to Moroccan and Rumanian migration, the feeling of belonging and memory, among others, reflected in the motivations that drive both the collective and the Ziduri de Trecere project.
Al’Akhawat emerged from the intersecting paths of six artists who are part of the Moroccan diaspora in Spain and who met repeatedly on art circuits and in resistance and activist forums.
Guided tour of the exhibition. 15 January 2025 (1.30-2.30 pm)
Activity open to the group of students at the Institut La Sedeta in the company of the teachers Silvia Masdeu and Jordi Carreras. This guided tour will be led by Alba Sauleda, the curator of the Orbits on Black exhibition.
On the Desire to Share a Gesture. 16 January 2025 (7.00 pm)
What was the last gesture you stole?On the Desire to Share a Gesture is a performative reading with blanca arias in which there is a sharing of the epistolary medium through she and Helena Laguna fabulate in order to jointly consider the possibility of the gesture as a space for contact between bodies.