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CHARCO

EXCHANGE

CHARCO

EXCHANGE

II

INDICE

1. About Exchange Live Art. Pag. 5-6


2. CHARCO EXCHANGE II. Pag. 7-8
3. Notes about the exchange. Pag. 9-10
4. Calendar. Pag. 11-14
2. Biographies. Pag. 15-22
3. Credit. Pag. 23-28

About Exchange Live Art

EXCHANGE Live Art

sees life as a continuous EXCHANGE:


life is EXCHANGE.
We believe that artistic creation is a living act, in which there are no limits or
boundaries. We are interested in collective creation, by proposing meetings,
residencies, workshops, talks and experiences in which we work with artists
from different disciplines, backgrounds and origins. EXCHANGE Live Art
proposes to share artistic processes, ideas and performance scores, as well
as ways to understand art and life.

EXCHAGE Live Art

is a project created by the artist Isabel Len & Ana Matey


that investigates Communication, taking the Performance
Art as the basis and tool for this research.

About Exchange Live Art

EXCHANGE
Live
Art

is a project based in research about different


ways to do, create and experiment art, with
proposals from artists of different generations,
backgrounds and disciplines.

EXCHANGE Live Art

takes the score (or script of a performance) as the central axis of a project in
which is also involve the writing, photography, video, live action, workshop and
debate as part of a whole: different ways that generate reflection and thought.

CHARCO EXCHANGE II

This fall, in Spain, we will celebrate the second edition of CHARCO EXCHANGE. In
May 2015 took place the first edition of this meeting in Canada (see info here www.
exchangeliveart.com) and this time three Canadian artists cross the pond to
work with three Spanish artists.
The 2016 edition has two phases: the first one will happen in Granada, the last week
of September, under the title CHARCO EXCHANGE PUBLIC. The artists Christian
Bujold (Montreal) and Mario Montoya (Valencia) will take the public space as an
element of communication in their creative process, central axis of this project. Both
artists already began this process of communication in a distance since July. As
part of this experience, they will lead an open workshop on Thursday, September
29th, followed by a final presentation on Friday, September 30th at the Gallery
Arrabal & Cia. The live performances will be accompanied by an artists talk and
documentation.

The second phase which will take place in November, will bring together the
Canadian artists Shannon Cochrane and Martine Viale with the Spanish artists Mario
Gutierrez Cru and Analia Beltran i Jans. The four artists will embark upon a creative
laboratory in Matadero Madrid between November 16th to 23rd. They will be working
in pairs (Shannon with Mario and Martine with Analia), in a process developed at a
distance since July as well.
What issues can arise in conversation between artists of different nationalities,
different interests and ways to make works? How can artists, who primarily work
individually find ways to develop collective approaches? How can they handle and
transform the difficulties that can arise in such a dialogue?
These questions will be brought together on November 24th during the presentation
of the works at the National Art Museum Reina Sofa as part of this year program of
the Action!MAD16 International Performance Art Festival. This event will include an
action-presentation by the artists and creators of this project Ana Matey and Isabel
Leon. The live performances will be followed by a discussion with the participating
artists. The project will conclude with a final event which will present the couples
in an exchange of performance scores, at the Jos Guerrero Centre of Granada on
Saturday, November 26th.

Notes about the exchange

CHARCO EXCHANGE II does not seek to bring together a group of like-minded


artists with same interests Often in society, relationships are created between
people who have a similar understanding of life. This makes it perhaps easier
between these individuals and at the same time it probably help generating a
society with isolated groups.
EXCHANGE Live Art, believe in the importance of being aware of our differences
and believe that sharing them makes us grow as individuals as well as collectively.
These experiences can generate respect and peripheral reflections instead of
close circles of thoughts. In this way, the artists involved in this project are facing
big challenges; to leave their comfort zones and create from the difficulties of
sharing (giving and receiving) with different people in a complex and intense
creative and vital process.

In the fall of 2016 it will be four years since we started developing this research project
based on the dialogue between artists of different nationalities, backgrounds and
generations. So far we have worked with four countries; Norway, Finland, Canada and
Morocco and despite globalization we can still feel the cultural differences between
these countries and Spain. This is, for us, a great opportunity, since differences always
open a window or a bridge for new perspectives and approaches, both artistically
and in the everyday life.
CHARCO EXCHANGE II is the thirteenth edition of the project and include a total of
six Spanish and Canadian artists with some social and political interest. This may be
more obvious in the works of Anala Beltrn i Jans, which talks about issues related
to gender or to Mario Gutirrez Cru, who is currently focusing more on the plight of
refugees. In a more abstract way and using subtle and poetic language, we have
Martine Viale, Christian Bujold and Mario Montoya, who are all transforming social
and political issues in a personal language that invites to open readings, without
seeking any obvious meanings. Although they focus on live performance, these
three artists also use various media in their process, like photo or video. And finally,
Shannon Cochranes work uses humour to question the performance art milieu itself
and human relationship.

C a le nda r

CHARCO EXCH A N GE PU B LIC

From 26th to 30th September, 2016. GRANADA

Artists: Mario Montoya (Spain) & Christian Bujold (Canada).


26-29
Creative laboratory at public space between the two artists.
Thrusday 29/ 11h
Free workshop at Arrabal & Ca Gallery. Limited places.
Inscripcions & information at : info@exchangeliveart.com
Friday 30/ 20h
Presentation of the proyect with performances and talk.
Arrabal & Ca Gallery.

CHAR CO EXCHA N GE ESPA A

From November 16th to 24th, 2016. MADRID

Artists: Anala Beltrn (Spain), Martine Viale (Canada-France)


Mario Gutirrez Cru (Spain-Portugal) & Shannon Cochrane (Canada).
16-23 (event not for the public/ only press quotes)
Creative laboratory at Matadero Madrid.
Wednesday 23/ 19h
Presentation of publication CHARCO EXCHANGE I.
Video-performances. Espacio Trapezio.
Thursday 24/ 19h
Presentation of the proyect, performances and talk.
National Art Museo Reina Sofa.

CHARCO EXCH A N GE ESPA A

From November 26th to Dicember 1st, 2016. GRANADA


Saturday 26/ 19h
Presentation of the proyect, performances and talk.
Art Center Jos Guerrero.

28-30/ From 17 to 21h


Exchange Workshop by the artists and creators of the proyect Isabel Len &
Ana Matey. Espacio iicono Price: 75 . Limited places.
Information & inscriptions: info@exchangeliveart.com
Thursday 1/ 19h
Performances by the workshops participants. Presentation of the publication
CHARCO EXCHANGE I and video-performance session.

B iogr a phie s

Shannon Cochrane

Shannon Cochrane is a
performance artist based in Toronto, Canada. In her
performance work she strives to engage reflexively with
the audience, strategically with humour, and methodically
with material to create situations and images that are
concerned with the formal presentation of art action, the
aesthetics of social interaction, and the investigation of
authorship, repertoire and the archive in the practice of
performance art itself.
Her work has been presented at various event and in
gallaries and festivals across Canada; and in over 15
countries in South America, Europe, UK, and Asia.
Shannon is a founding member, co-organizer and
co-curator of the 7a*11d International Festival of
Performance Art (established in 1997 in Toronto), and
has been the Artistic + Administrative Director of FADO
Performance Art Centre since 2007.

Born in Montreal, Canada, Martine Viale lives and


works in Perpignan, France. Anchored in a practise of
presence, her work aims to create installations grounded
in performance. More recently she has been focusing
on creating works in the public space and unusual
places that can facilitate unpredictable encounters
with passersby. Through this process she prioritizes
the momentary loss of bearings and uses actions as
a tool of investigation for different personal and social
conditionings.
Her work has been presented throughout Canada and the
United States as well as in Israel, Brazil, Cyprus, Serbia,
Scotland, Spain, The Philippines, France, Belgium and
Denmark.

Anala Beltrn i Jans is a graduate in fine arts from

the Complutense University of Madrid. She works in video


and photography and, since 2001, in action art, centring
her activity mainly in this latter field. She has participated
in festivals such as Accin!08MAD in Madrid, the X Havana
Biennal (Cuba), and the Infraction 09 in Ste (France), Ebent
2010 (Barcelona), Arrt dAccci (Valencia), Infraction Venice
2011(Venice Biennal), Perfomedia 2011, Italy, behind others.
She lives in Madrid where, in a variety of different spaces,
most of her work in action art is conducted: Artenaccion,
Espacio Espora, Festival Reformance, Espacio Menosuno,
etc.
Owing to her training in the plastic arts, her work in
performance arises from out of a need to eliminate the artistic
object in order to create a more direct exchange between
the public and herself, frequently involving direct audience
participation. She tries to make the work aesthetically simple,
by using everyday objects infused with an important symbolic
charge.

Mario Gutierrez Cru es artista, comisario y creativo.


Como artista desarrolla desde el 2002 una investigacin
vinculada a los conceptos Trayectos, Vigilancia y Mapas; y la
relacin con el uso del espacio y tiempo en piezas monocanal,
video-instalaciones, instalaciones sonoras e interactivas. Su
obra se ha podido ver en el Museo de Arte Contemporneo
de Madrid, Fundacin IDFX en Holanda, Bienal FotoJan 09
y 11, Bienal FotoGranada 2010, Museo MACO, C.C. Espaa
en Santo Domingo, CCCB, Fundacin BBVA, entre otros.
Compagina su obra con labores de comisariado, ha sido
presidente y co-director de Espacio Menosuno, centro de
experimentacin artstica, desde el 2000-10. Tambin cofundador de IN-SONORA, durante 2005-2010, colaborando
con festivales como Coutures en Francia, Interference en
Holanda, Saout Meeting en Marruecos, Sound Res en Italia,
entre otros. Mario ejerce de comisario o crtico en numerosos
Festivales y revistas como el Festival IMERGNCIA, FONLAD
en Portugal, INTERFERENCE en Holanda, Decibelio 06, por
nombrar algunos. Actualmente dirige el Festival PROYECTOR
de videoarte internacional, el proyecto Colectivos en red y es
director de KRE, Instituto de Creacin Contempornea.

Christian Bujold

is a performance artist based in


Montreal. He has shown his work in international festivals such
as 7a* 11d in Toronto, Exist-ence 5 in Brisbane and Viva! in
Montreal. Hes president for the artist run center DARE DARE
and a board member of the international performance festival
Viva! Art Action. He has been traveling around and working
in collaboration with artists from various fields of work. He
completed his Master degree at UQAM (Montreal) in 2011.
So Im obviously interested mostly on processual practices.
Lately, Ive been working in public space by disrupting the
urban flux with immobility stances. This was small durationnal
works where I was staying immobile for an hour or so,
covered with a white bed sheet. After the performance, I left
the bed sheet there and went away. I put up this work either
in Montral and Edmonton (Alberta) last autum.
This brought me to the idea of abandonning objects and/or
fragile structures that would eventually collapse on specific
sites and doing some really minimalistic and extremely short
invisible performance.
Im really fascinated by really short and/or really simple
actions that somehow, triggers something wider, like onda
de choque. I feel attracted to the possibilities and also the
restraints of that kind of interventions.

Mario

Montoya. Senior technician in Artistic


Photography and design by the School of Arts in Sevilla,
where he finished his studies with the project Allegory of
a Dysfunctional Family, work that achieved recognition in
diverse international festivals and which has been brought
to several exhibitions, journey that finished in 2014, when
he starts an artistic practice centered on direct experience.
He holds a bachelors degree in Fine Arts by the Polytechnic
University of Valencia, with specialization in intermedia art.
Actually, he has realized more than 70 exhibitions in this field
and he develops, at the same time of his artistic production,
the management and commission of different alternative
cultural projects for the commercial offer in the art market.

Credits

ARTISTS

Shannon Cochrane
www.performanceart.ca

Anala Beltrn i Jans


www.analiabeltranijanes.es

Martine Viale
www.martineviale.wordpress.com

Mario Gutierrez Cruz


www.mariogutierrez.com

Christian Bujold
www.christianbujold.com

Mario Montoya
www.mariomontoya.net

CO-PRODUCE

Accin! MAD

STUFF

www.accionmad.org/

EXCHANGE Live Art

www.exchangeliveart.com
Ana Matey (Madrid)

+34 679158434

Isabel Len (Granada) +34 687831375

MATSU estudio

www.matsuestudio.com

Centro Jos Guerrero


www.centroguerrero.es

COLABORATORS

Museo Reina Sofa

www.museoreinasofia.es

Galera Arrabal&Ca
www.arrabalycia.com
Espacio iicono
www.iicono.es
Espacio Trapezio
www.espaciotrapezio.org/en

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