2022
Flux Club Mondays

LISA MARRANI, VERA LIVIA GARCÍA & ALESSANDRO OLLA + MARTÍN VIRGILI & MÚSICA NARANJA

FLUXCLUB

Monday, May 30th at 8 pm
Duration: 90 min
Free entrance

Organitzed by HABITUAL VIDEO TEAM

fluxfestival.org
www.habitualvideoteam.org

Session 9.

LISA MARRANI, VERA LIVIA GARCÍA & ALESSANDRO OLLA 

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MARTÍN VIRGILI & MÚSICA NARANJA

This session advocates for spaces, memories, sounds and social fabric using audiovisuals and performance. There is active resistance – and artists making it visible – all around us, and today we have brought together five, from Argentina and Italy, who have coincided in Barcelona. They’ll be sharing with us audiovisuals very different in their making and yet related in spirit.

 

LISA MARRANI, VERA LIVIA GARCÍA & ALESSANDRO OLLA

Screening

Lisa Marrani

Italy. An architect and a performer, with a PhD in Technology and Management of Cultural Heritage (IMT Alti Studi Lucca/UPC) and a postgraduate degree in Sensorial Language and the Poetics of Play (Fundación UdG-Girona). Her work focuses on the relations between inhabitant and habitat. Her artistic creations fuse a range of languages as the means to hear and make visible social and urban issues. She began collaborations with Barcelona company Teatro de los Sentidos, directed by Enrique Vargas, in 2008, as an actress and also researching space and the creation of collective visions. She has worked on a number of projects with international artists and companies in Spain, Italy and Denmark. Since 2018 she has been collaborating with the Town Planning Committee of the FAVB (Federación de Asociaciones Vecinales de Barcelona) and assesses citizen participation procedures. She has taught architecture and the poetics of space at several centres in Catalonia and Italy.

Vera Livia García

Argentina. A Performance Arts graduate from Buenos Aires University, she has an Official Masters in Art and Design (EINA) as well as a Masters in Aesthetics and Theory of Contemporary Art (UAB). Her work in the live arts field is as dancer, actor, performer, creator, artistic director and teacher. Her projects are multidisciplinary and have been shown at Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), Museo Picasso (Barcelona), Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona) and Festival Terrassa Nuevas Tendencias (TNT) among others. Since 2002, she has coordinated physical and vocal training workshops for actors/dancers, contemporary dance, theatre for children and improvisation/composition in Buenos Aires, and since 2008 she has been teaching and hosting workshops in Spain and Italy. Her most recent creative pieces are: El eco de las luciérnagasÁgape InsípidoAquí, no AhoraPaisajes indeterminados and Absentia. As an independent creator, she has collaborated on the Mucha Mujer project, for which she devised and directed the performances Múltiples Marcos, Cartografía de Cuerpos and Las Voces Silenciadas, and with Impatto Teatre collective on the project Vita Nella Città.

http://www.veraliviagarcia.com

Alessandro Olla

Italy. A prolific and multifaceted artist, Alessandro Olla has invested a large part of his creative endeavours in transgressing academia and formality in music. Forged in classical studies that include piano, composition and electronica, he was soon tempted by the possibilities offered by the more libertarian side of sound creation, and ventured into the stormy but fascinating fields of improvisation, experimentation and risky electronica. Over the course of these voyages he has been accompanied by key figures from among the purest musical activists: Tim Hodgkinson, David Shea, Phil Niblock, Marc Ribot, Ikue Mori, Llorenç Barber… As a result of his fertile curiousity and his desire to bring down the retaining walls between disciplines, over the past ten years or so Alessandro Olla’s work has spread in multiple directions, involving him in projects that include visual or theatrical aspects (creations for films, dance and theatre shows, performances) and leading him to express the poetic and sound possibilities of objects and matter, or rediscover various physical phenomena (gravitation, oscillation, inertia) from the point of view of a master prestidigitator. The result of this research is a work that takes risk and experimentation and extracts from these a broad palette of clear and immediate experiences that make the everyday worth rediscovering again and again.

http://www.aleolla.it


Més Veïnes
2022_29 min
Research, direction and dramaturgy: Lisa Marrani and Vera Livia García
Video recording, soundscape and editing: Alessandro Olla

The Més Veïnes project began in 2019 as a way of generating dialogue between a group of older women and another of young women from Can Peguera in Nou Barris, the only neighbourhood in Barcelona consisting entirely of public housing, and which is currently awaiting renovations. The women took part in theatre and dance workshops based on the exchange of experiences, knowledge and practices relating to their lives in the neighbourhood while exploring the invisible thread that unites past, present and future, with the aim of bringing to the forefront the neighbourhood’s story of social resistance and solidarity and an issue of our times: the right to housing.

Més Veïnes was originally conceived as a walkabout performance around the women’s homes, but the format was switched to audiovisuals as a result of the 2020 pandemic. 

 

MARTÍN VIRGILI & MÚSICA NARANJA

Screening + performance

Martín Virgili (Buenos Aires, 1976) is a composer, guitarist, performer, teacher and researcher. An Arts graduate from Buenos Aires University, he’s currently taking a masters in Sound Art at Barcelona University. His works are in the fields of musical composition, sound poetry, sound experimentation, literature and film. 

He has received scholarships and grants from Paris University, Helsinki University, Duke, National Arts Foundation, Fundación Telefónica (Argentina) and the España Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires.

He and Pamela Guruciaga make up the duo Música naranja, focused on experimental work at the crossroads of performance, sound and poetry. He’s also an active member of Negra40, Club del Dibujo and Proyecto Intemperie. He currently lives and works in Heidelberg (Alemania).

http://www.martinvirgili.com.ar


San Antonino
2021_8:21

Shortlisted at the BIENALSUR 2021, San Antonino is a musical sound action for orchestras, whistles, cars and yellow motorboats, dedicated to the port of the same name in the city of Mar del Plata. The project’s aim is to make the 640,000 square metre space audible by inserting various sources of sound in the marine landscape. The composition was inspired by the deteriorated state of the iconic Mar del Plata yellow motorboats and other local heritage items (tangible or not) of the city’s harbour.  

Project, music, video: Martín Virgili

oeste – día 1
2020_5:10 min

oeste – día 1 is part one of an audiovisual diptych focusing on the act of listening and the sensorial processes that are played with during musical improvisation. dia 1 takes place by the cliffs on the southern side of Mar del Plata, an area of ecological and social turmoil, and presents sonorities formed by an active landscape interwoven with social and community practices in a particular tone and voice. These sound formations are framed by a cliff face constructed by Patagonian sediment in constant transformation, a unique landscape in which the singular geopoetic configuration of the place can be seen and heard. oeste is about the register and elaboration of this sound, geographic and social process in a great 24-hour action divided into two working days. This part, the first, begins at dawn at the mouth of a thousand-year-old sea and ends at dusk in a poplar forest. 

Project: Yamandú Rodríguez, Adriana Sasali and Martín Virgili

Sound: Martín Virgili

Video: Maximiliano Gutiérrez 


Rockaby
videoperformance_1980_8:17 min

Rockaby is a brief but powerful play by Samuel Beckett that links sound with memories of an elderly woman, and which resounds because of its simplicity in the sea and cliffs. Given the stark nature of the scene, the text-sound material of a prerecorded tape with the actress’s text acts as the ‘little music’ that accompanies the protagonist’s hypnotic movements. Duo 

Música naranja (Pamela Guruciaga & Martín Virgili) have prepared a unique version for video, centred on the background sound to the action. 

Video and performance: Música naranja


FLUX CLUB celebrates its 13th season at the Antic Teatre and the 22nd anniversary of its creation in 2000.

This is a fortnightly video programme that reflects the vitality of video creation in Barcelona. It hosts all kinds of sessions with screenings, video performances, and debates offering direct contact between audiences and video creators. The sessions focus on a range of subjects, from monographics of well-known directors to specific themes such as video dance and video poetry, or collective sessions dedicated to emerging authors.

The programme is open to everything currently going on in the field of video in Barcelona, complementing the FLUX Video Auteur Festival with its content and extending its sphere of influence beyond the dates of the festival, which takes place in December.


HABITUAL VIDEO TEAM is a non-profit association that has as its main objective the promotion of activities related to the visual arts, specifically, video art: www.habitualvideoteam.org.

A fundamental area of their work is the organisation of festivals, cycles and video shows, such as the FLUX Video Auteur Festival: www.fluxfestival.org, and the INFLUX Audiovisual Performing Arts Festival: www.influxfestival.org.

Another area of Habitual Video Team’s activity is video documentation of cultural events mainly related to experimental music and poetry performances. In 2012 they launched the SUMMA project in order to convert this audiovisual heritage (more than 1000 recordings) into a non-profit online video archive: www.summa-hvt.org.

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