Is it true that your earliest film and video works were mostly made in response to compositions and music? You collaborated with composers Phil Niblock and Antoine Beuger, among others? Indeed, at one point I started working a lot with Q-O2*, an arts laboratory for...
This Thursday Pablo Agma presents his film performance Niño monaguillo y sus pecados (Altar boy and his sins) as part of the Desbordamientos evening dedicated to Sinais. Here, the Galician artist (who has visited us before with Hombre de palo (Stick man)) opens up a...
The Portuguese artist Beatriz Freire tells us about the ideas behind her work A Texture Map of Monnegre River, in which the projection is combined with the action of weaving on a live loom. Where did your idea of transferring the codes from fabric to analogue film...
The Mostra de Cinema Periférico began with packed venues for both the session “The Cosmic Shutter” at the Filmoteca de Galicia, and the performative screening of Path of Totality, by Jeanne Liotta at iDomus Museum. Institutions collaborating with (S8) and the festival...
Descubro el rayo, tus ojos tiemblan is an invitation to immerse oneself in a trance: a series of intermittent portraits whose power looks into the physical effects of light on the people portrayed and the spectators. We spoke with its creator, Guillermo Braga from...
Los Caballos De Düsseldorf, an equine collective based in Madrid, are presenting their film Fifty Fifty with live sound accompanied by a small concert. The way of thinking about doorags (an instrument made with obsolete toys and devices) they usually play is applied...
To deepen our understanding of the work of Bruno Varela, who is visiting us from Mexico, we are presenting some fragments below taken from the essay Disappearances of bodies, erasures of the image: archive, violence and memory in the work of Bruno Varela on the Iguala...
What sparked first your interest in the cosmos? What are the readings/works of art that informed this interest? I have no science background and I grew up in NYC where all I knew was the Moon, the Big Dipper and Orion's Belt. Like many children, I was first obsessed...
This activity—which takes place before (S8) kicks off every year— is organised with backing from the Emalcsa Foundation and collaboration from the Luis Seoane Foundation. It also includes participation from the ADCOR Foundation, the ASPERGA Association and Red Cross...