08/05/2011, 19.00h
Programme#10 (last event of the season in Granada).

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– In Girum Imus Nocte, video-performance by Marta Moreno Muñoz.

– Yobo, a personal view of West African big cities by Laura Brinkmann + screening of past works by the artist, including her video The Charm of a Dancer, part of the Volutes series.

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Marta Moreno Muñoz (Spain, 1978) is a performance and video artist with a background in experimental theatre and other time-based arts. Graduating in 2002 with a M.A in Fine Arts, her work has focused predominantly on “feminine” subjectivity, dissolution of the ego and the notion of pre-oedipal nostalgia in response to a patriarchal and undesirable reality. She is at present in a transitional stage, shifting towards the conceptualization of larger-scale projects exploring the complex interchange between performance art and cinematic language.

Currently nomadic, she is working on personal artistic projects, researching for her PhD Thesis “Art as an Experience of Dissolution of the Self” and co-directing The Unifiedfield with Marc Chia; Marta Moreno has lived, produced and engaged in artistic works in Spain, UK, Turkey, India, The Netherlands, Indonesia and exhibited worldwide.

+info: www.theunifiedfield.net/blog

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In Girum Imus Nocte by Marta Moreno Muñoz (Spain, 1998-2008) 00:08:00

In Girum Imus Nocte takes its name from Virgil’s palindrome In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (We go wandering in circles at night and are consumed by fire). In this video-performance, hysteria is exorcised through repetitive rotations within confines of a bathtub. A single female performer, driven by pre-oedipal nostalgia, attempts to experience the dissolution of the ego; through tireless contortions of her body, she reaches a self-induced trance and attains a kind of mystical regression.

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In Girum Imus Nocte from residua on Vimeo.

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Laura Brinkmann (Málaga, 1977) is a photographer and artist. She completed her Bacherlor´s Degree in Psychology in 2000 at the University of Malaga and in 2005 completed a BA in Communication Studies and Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In 2004 she was invited to participate at Arco by the Council of Málaga and in 2007 she won the first prize of Malaga Crea , a contest for young artists. Since then she has shown her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, the Modern Art Centre (CAC) in Malaga, the Gallery Evelyn Botella in Madrid and PHE09, amongst others.

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Volutes / The Charm Of A Dancer by Laura Brinkmann (Spain, 2007) 00:01:10

The Charm Of A Dancer by Laura Brinkmann, a video piece composed of stop-motion photography which forms part of a larger series by the artist called Volutes. Taking place in a very regular domestic set with an unassumingly older lady sitting on her regular sofa, this work uses smoke as its principal element. The smoke slowly fills the frame of the video engulfing the older lady and everything else in the set, transmitting the undercurrents of loneliness, isolation and betrayal by life’s expectations.

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El encanto de un bailarín from lauraSD on Vimeo.