27–30 May 2015
AZ Azkuna Zentroa
Plaza Arriquibar, 4
48010 Bilbao, Biscay
Spain
Azkuna Zentroa is holding the ”3,2,1. International Meeting on New Performing Arts” from May 27 to 30, where emerging and consolidated creators put forward their artistic proposals beyond the stage.
“321″ presents performativity via different disciplines. The dialogue between the emitter and receiver transits through theatre, a body in movement, action, performance and purpose.
This year the International Meeting takes a special look at community participation and sound proposals, co-existing with visual arts and theatre today. The new choreographical proposals are being presented in all the centre spaces, from the Exhibition Hall to the theatre, the Mediateka and the public place. Centre spaces which are transformed into a place where you can experience the new performing arts. Some of the best exponents of these disciplines will be present, such as Llorenç Barber (Spain), Pé Okx (Netherlands), Ray Lee (UK), Elssie Ansareo (Basque Country/Mexico), Tania Carvalho (Portugal), L’Alakran (Oskar Gomez and Esperanza Gomez) (Basque Country/Switzerland), Rosa Casado & Mike Brookes (Spain/UK), Philipe Quense (France), John Berkavich (UK), Marc Rees (UK), Guillermo Weikertch (Spain), Eva Guerrero and Andrea Martinez (Basque Country), Keith Jarrett (UK), Rocio Molina (Spain), Plastique Fantastique (Greece/Italy), Ruemaniak (Basque Country), and Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells (UK).
At “3,2,1. International Meeting on New Performing Arts,” new artistic disciplines come together and transform themselves to convey unique live experiences without limits in terms of space, time and format.
From the creative idea itself, to its conveyance to the public or the different enriching collaboration processes. In other words, “3,2,1″ is the Meeting for everything which is new, with proposals to make us reflect on and visualize reality in a new way.
The Exhibition Hall transits within this work frame among the visual and scenic arts, transforming the white cube into an exhibitionary and scenic space.
Elssie Ansareo (Mexico/Basque Country)
321 Ways of saying three two one
Art and community photography / project
321 Ways of saying three two one is a participative proposal, a tribute and an invitation to dancers, actresses, performers and the public to come on stage… In a nutshell, an invitation to artists to perform an action while allowing Elssie Ansareo’s camera to capture that instant. In this series of photographs numerous references co-exist: from the history of art, performance or popular culture, to the viewer’s own experience. The result is a specific story of the scene, of what is taking place at “3,2,1. International Meeting on New Performing Arts.”
Pè Okx (Netherlands)
Sung Glass
Video installation
This ten-minute video projection over glass with sound resonating from a glass panel, the image of a man singing is projected over a series of hanging glass fragments in a dark room. Distorted pink and green fragments of his face are reflected from the prismatic rotational glass on the walls, giving it a phantasmagorical presence.
Llorenç Barber (Valencia)
About mutters and approaches
Sound installation and action
Lloreç Barber a contemporary composer and experimental music references, interprets a subtle delicate sound with the aid of bells, invite intimate listening. About mutters and approaches opens the tap to the sound of inappropriate enthralment, of unusual stretching and even the sleepy nap entwined with epiphanies never glimpsed.
Ray Lee (UK)
Siren
Sound installation
A setup showing the effect of sound in movement via the rotation of various sirens placed at different heights. The visual show is a live experience which varies depending on where the observer stands. An action / improvisation will take place in the Siren installation with the participation of artist Ray Lee (sound); dancer, choreographer and National Dance Award Winner Rocío Molina (dance), and a bertsolari (oral improvisation), in the Exhibition Hall at 7:30pm on May 29 and 30.
