Espectadors en residència (Spectators in Residence) was a study community (created through an open call) that promoted spaces for research and learning through the artistic residency program of the Graner Centre for Creation and Live Arts during 2020-21. A space, mediated by artefactum , where we shared an active and reflective condition with the artists, getting closer to their creative processes, generating learning, and developing the contents of our experiences through collective research on the poetics of the spectator.
The 2021 edition (March-June):
- The Theatron is a space for the presentation of materials in process by resident artists. With these presentations, the program aims to collectively reflect on the themes and procedures of contemporary creation. The participating artists were Joaquín Collado, Núria Guiu, Cuqui Jerez, Raquel Klein, and Xavier Manubens.
- The Theoros is a study space on the status and poetics of the contemporary spectator: the modalities of translation and the (con)tracts we establish between what we see and the way we look at what we see. This space actively plays with the shared root between the theatron—as the place to see—and the Greek theōría—as the observation of the thing seen—to explore the bodily, (est)hetic, political, and affective dispositions that guide our ways of looking, feeling, speaking, and, in general, relating to the scene.
artefactum: “We are an artistic tandem that moves between the arts, pedagogy, and critical thinking. Our proposals create artistic devices and situations that question the present – cultural, social, and educational – to foster processes of multiple, situated, and transversal learning. We understand artistic creation as a space for the exploration and articulation of learning communities through strategies based on mediation, experimental pedagogy, and contemporary creation methodologies, encouraging horizontal and collaborative practices aimed at developing situated and sustainable knowledge. Our activities are organized around three main lines of action: research and creation, mediation and collaboration with active networks, and learning and training. All of our projects place the body and experience at the center of the creation and learning processes, combining artistic strategies with (trans)feminist methodologies that encourage horizontal and collaborative practices to weave communities that work in a situated way.”
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