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Joaquín Collado

I am Joaquín Collado. I grew up in Villamalea (Albacete) but now live in Barcelona. Since 2017, I have been exploring ways to expand the contours of the human, driven by the desire to embrace multiple corporealities that exist within the realms of the spatial, the monstrous, and the poetic. I am an artist—any artist—unfinished, caracolista. I dance, I move. I am a topo-dancer, mime, contortionist, buendoblador. For the past four years, I have coordinated a dance festival in my hometown. I also run an educational project with teenagers on shame and other matters. All these unfoldings allow me to imagine the artist I am becoming: made of multiple gestures, straddling high and low culture, the now and the past, the inside and the outside, the body and the wordiness.

www.joaquincollado.com
@joaquincollado_
www.festivalpaisaje.com/

Residency project

Yo florencio is not an autobiographical story, much less the story of someone invented. I wouldn’t even think of it! It’s a dance project, that much is true. But it’s not just one. The I suggests a unity, but an unreliable one—always elusive. Florencio is a name, but here it is also a verb. (Though in this dance, don’t trust the verb to be). Florenciar: I florencio, you florencias. Rehearsing this unfinished-one is florenciar in a known-unknown present. The rest is yet to come. Florenciar is also about twisting the contours of meaning. And yet, everything is a signifier—there is no meaning. An empty gesture, without end or direction. Still, here, form is content. Yo florencio is about being and dancing, nothing more. Quite superficial. That’s right. Full stop…

Photography: Raúl Tramarinos

Residency archive Graner

  • 2025 · open call · Yo florencio
  • 2024 · with Mercat de les Flors · Hacia un sol negro
  • 2023 · with Mercat de les Flors · Hacia un sol negro
  • 2022 · crossed residency at La Briqueterie CDCN (París) in collaboration with Institut Ramon Llull · Aproximación a un sol negro
  • 2021 · open call · Zoo!
  • 2015 · in collaboration with Dansa Ara · Muerte del avestruz

Residencies videos

Graner other contexts

Aplec 2021

FF90 (2019-21)

DANSA ARA (2014-17)