Paratext #79 with Luz Broto, Violeta Mayoral and Ari Cardozo

This name, Paratext, hides a monthly program of performances by artists in residence at Hangar as well as artists on exchange grants. They present, in different formats, specific projects or parts of their work. The sessions are always open to the public with the purpose of enabling interaction with the artists themselves.

The next Paratext session will take place on Wednesday, November 27th, at 7 p.m. in Hangar’s Sala Ricson.

Projects will be presented by:

Luz Broto (Long-term residency)

She holds a diploma in Advanced Studies in Art in the Digital Age. Intermediate Creation at the University of Barcelona, and post-master Critical Habitats studies at Royal Institute of Art of Stockholm.

She works with the space, with what’s here, taking into account the architecture of the place, its urban environment or position in the territory, its infrastructure or organisational structure, its regulations, uses and histories, and in doing so, proposes minimal operations that change everything.

She has done site-specific projects in the format of installations, actions, interventions, protocols, or itineraries for commissions, grants, exhibitions, or residencies, in close collaboration with many institutions and in different contexts for fifteen years, as Adjust to the external temperature (Secession, Viena, 2011), Raise the water level of a river (Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, 2014), Open a permanent hole (MACBA, Barcelona, 2015), Abrogate the rules of use relating to silence (Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donosti-San Sebastián, 2016), Tighten a line between two parallel interiors (FLORA, Bogotá, 2018) o Prolong the pillars (ethall, L’Hospitalet, 2021).

She has received production and research grants from Blueproject Foundation, BCN Producció or Fundación Botín; she has been awarded the Art Nou and Miquel Casablancas prizes; and has participated in the LIPAC residencies in Buenos Aires and FLORA in Bogotá. Some of these works are part of public collections, such as MUSAC, MACBA or MAMBO.

Violeta Mayoral (Long-term residency)

Violeta Mayoral is an artist currently based in Barcelona. Her point of departure is photography as a space for autonomy that allows one to enter and exit the image from that which is performative, sonic or sculptural as a metaphor for the gaze. Using events and the act of listening as her methodology, she is interested in understanding the regimes of meaning from the paradigm of vision and acoustic experience. Her work is currently represented by the gallery etHall

Ari Cardozo (Long-term residency)

Ari Cardozo is an artist and music enthusiast based in Barcelona.

Her work falls within a noise, lo-fi, and amateur tradition, deeply influenced by both pop music and various interpretations of noise as a concept.

She is interested in the potentials of music as a language within contemporary artistic practices and in experimenting with extended temporalities and fluctuations in intensity.

Active in Barcelona’s underground scene, she has been independently releasing music since 2016, under her own name or the alias Astronaut Chick. She is a member of the Catalan collective and label Nova Era, a pioneer and reference point both locally and internationally in the emerging SoundCloud scene.

She has been pursuing a degree in Arts and Design at Escola Massana since 2017.

 

Free entrance.

 

Image: Luz Broto. Taller 104.