Miguel Molina-Alarcón, Elia Torrecilla, Stefano Scarani and Van Jesus
Universitat Politècnica de València
Architecture as a score
A walking concert of simultaneous de-gentrification between Lavapiés (Madrid) and Russafa (Valencia)
PARTICIPANTS: Students of Sound Art of the Department of Sculpture of
the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and participants of the Seminar “Body, Culture and Identity” in Lavapies.
The two neighborhoods of Lavapies and Russafa are connected and activated auditorily through the movement of bodies. Architecture, which reveals the processes and lifts the layers of gentrification, can be converted into a “score” or an “instrument” with which to turn a neighborhood into noise and generate a concert along a route. Two groups begin to interact with the city and exchange their experience in real time. Each approach will be preceded by a metaphor, with a word from musical language: from a “quartet for a crosswalk,” or a “symphony for a store’s closed gate,” to a “chorus for a walled up building.”
Let yourself experience the “dancing” and the “music-making” of the architecture, to the sound of an experience based on “sound parkour,” which we have defined as “the art of unusual displacement in space, making sounds freely with all of the elements and obstacles that one finds, and overcoming the barriers of sound of what we look at but do not dare to touch.”
The performance continues with a philosophy of “mini-actions” in space that has been developed in previous workshops:
One group will propose a set of actions and performances to another group. These proposals will be encoded in QR codes that will be inserted in different urban points on the route, and will be carried out by the other group. Both groups, connected by WhatsApp, exchange their experiences (through words, sounds, and images), in real time, using their bodies to activate and convert architecture into a score that collects tracks, cracks, memories, and changes the “frozen music” of the neighborhood into flowing music.
The 15th of October, from 13:00 to 14:00, the neighborhoods of Russafa (Valencia) y Lavapies (Madrid), will melt into a third, hybrid space; sound qualities of both neighborhoods will be revealed through a performative group experience, through the exchange of sounds and dances activated by our bodies. We will create a walking concert of anti-gentrification as a “sound” gesture to wake the ears of the sleeping passerby in the face of this silent displacement of the popular classes and the unique architecture of these neighborhoods as a result of gentrification.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Miguel Molina-Alarcón
Miguel Molina-Alarcón, currently Professor of the Department of Sculpture of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Director of the research group Laboratorio de Creaciones Intermedia (LCI). He teaches “Sound Art” of the Degree of Fine Arts and the Master of Visual and Multimedia Arts (AVM). As an artist and researcher he has developed his work both in the field of sculpture, public art, sound art and performance, participating in international festivals, congresses and exhibitions (France, Japan, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Holland, Switzerland , Germany, etc.).
He has coordinated different monographic publications: “Noises and whispers of the avant-garde” (catalog and double cd-audio, Valencia, 2004), “Sound experiments in Russian Avant-Garde” (Audio-book, ReR Megacorp, London, 2008). “CHUM, CHUM, PIM, PAM, PUM, OLÉ! Pioneers of Sound Art in Spain, from Cervantes to Las Vanguardias ”(Weekend Proms, Lucena, 2017). He has also directed several R&D Projects, related to the background of sound art and action art in Spain, also addressing the background of sound art in Latin America. The last directed R&D project has been “Recovery of pioneering practices of action art of the Spanish historical avant-garde and its contribution to the history of European performance” (ref. HAR2014-58869-P), granted by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain, executed during the 2015-2018 period.
Elia Torrecilla (Drifting Doctor)
She develops an interdisciplinary artistic project through which she explores the body’s relations with the surrounding environment, so her work revolves around performance. She combines her activity as an artist and researcher and in her production overlaps and combines practical and theoretical research as part of his life experience, both individually and as a group (WDC Group, NoDOS (3) …).
She is a Doctor in Art: Production and Research. She has taught at university, has made international stays (both research and artistic production) and participated in various R&D Research projects, the last of them tries to recover the background of the action art of the Spanish historical avant-garde: https: //www.youtube.com/user/intermedia0/videos
She’s carrying creative workshops aimed at people of all ages, whether or not they belong to the artistic field, in which the performance merges with other disciplines (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography or sound art). She is currently coordinating the First Edition of the International Festival of Minimum Urban Performances in Video “Urban Body in Action” with the support of the Intermediate Creations Laboratory and PAC of the Polytechnic University of Valencia: https://urbanbodyinaction.wixsite.com/urbanbodyinaction /
Stefano Scarani
Doctor of Music from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, is a composer, videomaker and creator of interactive works.
He has trained in music in Italy with Franco Donatoni, Riccardo Sinigaglia and Alvise Vidolin. He is a professor of Electroacoustic Composition and Composition with audiovisual media at the Higher Center of Music of the Basque Country Musikene, and associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Master’s Degree in Music, Master’s Degree in Visual and Multimedia Arts).
Active in the execution of electroacoustic works in concerts, theater and interactive multimedia installations, he is a collaborating member of AGON Acustica Informatica Musica. With Alberto Morelli, in 1993 he created the Tangataman project, dedicated to musical composition and sound design for audiovisual installations and interactive environments, working especially with Studio Azzurro and Peter Greenaway.
www.stefanoscarani.com
Go jesus
(São Paulo -SP, Brazil 1987). Performer and PhD student in the Doctoral Program in Art: Production and Research of the UPV (Universitat Politècnica de València), in which she investigates artistic practice as a generator of affections and how affection can help communities in a post-catastrophe situation . Her line of action and research is acting in public spaces and public art festivals. She works with collaborative artistic experiences with the EIA (Imersive Environmental Experience) group since 2008. She received the Visual Arts award from the City of Recife-BR (2015) and the PAM PAM from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2018). She participated in the First International Biennial of Asunción (2015), and in urban art and performance festivals such as Forma y Substancia (Costa Rica- 2019), Resistencia (Austria-2019), Intramurs (Spain-2018), FunkFest (Ecuador- 2016 ), Corpórea (Mexico-2016), Summar Córdoba (Argentina-2016), Conquista Ruas (Vitória da Conquista-BA; Brazil 2016-2017). And of artistic residences in Mexico, Russia, Argentina and Ecuador.
https: //vanjesus.wee
Participantes de Arte Sonoro (Dpto. de Escultura-Facultad de Bellas Artes-Universitat Politècnica de València):
Anna Alegre, Scarlett Aliaga,Andrea Angulo, Adriana Arce, Mateo Barcia,Judit Blasco, Álvaro J. Blázquez, Julia Caro, Francisco Cebriá, Mª Elena Cerisuelo, Francisco de Asís Conde, Inés Díaz, María Fontcuberta, América Abigail Franco, Xiz R. Franco, Silvana Giraldo, Jonathan Leandro Gómez, Chiau Yuan Lee, Magdalena Lorca, Marcos Santiago Maestro, Cristina Martí, Franco Matteo, Silvia Medina, Mª Josefa Moreno, Daniel Munera, Alicia Muñoz, Elena Orellana, Cristian Pascual, Joana Ramón, Hugo Redondo, Judith Roger, Marina Sala, Kaijun Shi y Nerea Vanaclocha.