Coreografies elèctriques is a program by Graner that unfolds through various contexts and actions centered on research in the scenic space. In dialogue with the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts and Digital Technology at the Institut del Teatre, we propose a conversational and practical gathering on a theme that resonates both within the creation center and the topics explored in the postgraduate program: the archive.
We bring together four very diverse perspectives to approach the archive from different creative practices: Estampa, Núria Guiu, Quim Bigas, and Daniel Moreno Roldán have turned the archive into a space for research and experimentation. The anthropological drive to collect, remember, and reproduce takes on new incarnations and meanings in contact with the internet and digital technologies. This friction is at the core of the work of these four creators, who engage with the post-digital archive through languages such as the body, sound, image, or artificial intelligence. During this open session, we will ask them to share practical starting points for activating the body in relation to the archive, and we will explore how we can allow ourselves to be affected by collections, classifications, and reproductions, as well as how we, in turn, can affect them.
Session organized in collaboration with the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts and Digital Technology at the Institut del Teatre.
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Estampa is an artistic collective of programmers, filmmakers, and researchers based in Barcelona. Their practice is rooted in a critical and archaeological approach to audiovisual and digital technologies, with a particular interest in archives and experimental audiovisuals. Since 2017, one of their main lines of work has been researching the uses and ideologies of artificial intelligence, an interest that began with the project El mal alumno. Pedagogía crítica para inteligencias artificiales. Since then, they have developed over twenty research projects, publications, installations, performances, and audiovisual pieces. Estampa has been selected as a resident collective at Graner in 2025 in the scenic space research category.
Núria Guiu has worked as a dancer with companies such as Cullberg Ballet, Gisèle Vienne, Carte Blanche Dance Company, Batsheva Dance Company, Ingri Fiksdal, Jasmin Vardimon, La Veronal, and Kobalt Works. Recently, she was awarded the 2022 National Culture Award, the most prestigious cultural distinction in Catalonia. Ingri Fiksdal works on projects at the intersection of post-anthropocentrism and decolonial thought from a feminist perspective at the University of Oslo, and her works have been presented in numerous venues worldwide.
Quim Bigas works in the fields of choreography, dramaturgy, and informational processes. His works often incorporate documentary processes to develop choreographic possibilities that unfold in continuous time perspectives. He is interested in how to create modes of being through the intersection of memory, subjective experience, and absence. Additionally, he is committed to exploring the body as a somatic entity that sustains its own questions and concerns about perspectives on reality. Since 2018, he has been an associate professor of choreography at Den Danske Scenekunstskolen in Copenhagen.
Daniel Moreno Roldánis an artist and musician. His work has been exhibited in spaces such as the Design Museum (Barcelona), Art3 (Valence, France), Getxophoto (Getxo), Art-O-Rama (Marseille, France), Fluc (Vienna, Austria), and La Casa Encendida (Madrid), among others. His work is also disseminated through the language of humor on the Internet, using various social media platforms. He is a member and co-founder of the Club de Videojocs, a group of people interested in video games as more than just entertainment. Additionally, he works as a music producer and sound designer for musical, theatrical, and audiovisual projects.
Image: performer entertainer person creator swan (Estampa, 2024)
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