CLOSE. SPECTRAL: WANDERING PROJECTION

DESBORDAMIENTOS

Fundación Luis Seoane | Saturday June 7th | 11:00 pm | Free entry to all venues until full capacity. It will not be possible to enter the venues after the screening has started.

A unique event, the Mostra’s closing ceremony is dedicated this year to the collaborative work of two laboratories self-run by European artists. One of them, Laia Coop, is a cooperative based in Porto, Portugal, committed to creating and exhibiting moving images, whose activities include the Laboratorio da Torre. The other is Mire, an association dedicated to experimental cinema in Nantes. Both organizations are part of the European SPECTRAL project, with which they are bringing us their Wandering Projection, a travelling film event that will tour the city with a programme of films to take over the walls of A Coruña along with a work of sound (or film for the ears). 

WANDERING PROJECTION
Approximate duration: 1 hour 

SPECTRAL, the acronym for Spatial, Performative & Expanded Cinematics – Transnational Research at Artist-run Labs, is a project that unites six labs run by artists dedicated to analogue film practices using an experimental, DIY approach. SPECTRAL’s activities include creating, curating, inventing, circulating, distributing, empirical engineering and inventing new forms of artistic expression through photo-mechanical projection, performative practices, hybrid technology and research. In a context where devices are created as an exploration of new tools for E.C.A (Expanded Cinematic Arts), Mire Lab explores the notion of “wandering”—itinerancy, an adaptation to multiple environments—as Laia-Torre delves into the concept of “primal light” to interpret the environment and milieu as sources of primordial light, time and movement. For the programme at S8, the two labs are putting forward a launch of the wandering sessions with night walks and a portable 16 mm projector created at Mire (easy to transport and powered self-sufficiently) in a programme put together as an interpretation of the themes of wandering and primal light. It includes films by Oskar Fischinger, Kurt Kren, Patrice Kirchhofer, Malena Szlam, Cécile Fontaine, Pedro Paiva and João Maria Gusmão, Gary Beydler and Charlotte Pryce.

Also participating: Mónica Baptista, Rita Morais and Sofia Arriscado from Laia-Torre, and Pierre Signolat, Chloé Beulin and Aurélie Percevault from Mire.