Performances

The Blueproject Foundation presents the following performances within Abaton, a programme on imaginary places that Il Salotto will host from May 4 to June 7, 2018.

Check the complete programme of Abaton. 

The Pleiades
by Elena Bajo
→ Thursday 17.05.2018 - 8pm

The Pleiades is a star cumulus belonging to a constellation, an imagined and mythicised space emerged from the human desire to communicate with nature and make sense of it. A space related to dreams, based on a scale and time that go beyond the human ones, a space of projection. The performance is generated by a cut up text-score-script created by the artist from digital and analogue sources and interpreted by invited performers. The public is also invited to take part, simply changing their vertical position of spectator to a horizontal space of shared imagination.

Elena Bajo (Madrid, 1976) is an artist and co-founder of the LA CLUB collective dedicated to climate action. Her artistic practice occurs at the intersection of anarchist thought, social ecology and metaphysics, dealing with the ecological, social and political dimensions of everyday spaces. She works both individually and collectively, using an interdisciplinary approach: architecture, life sciences, forms of movement, acting, choreography, sculpture, text and video, attractive ideas of nature and the body as a political and social entity that questions their relationship with ecosystems.

Participating performers: Lucía Jaén, Cristina Morales* and Élise Moreau*. *Contemporary dance collective Feminine Sexual Initiative.

Making visible, the invisible
by Manuel Rodriguez
→ Thursday 24.05.2018 - 8pm

Making Visible, the Invisible is a reinterpretation of the concept of chijikinkutsu, created by the artist Nelo Akamatsu in his sound installation. The performance attempts to create a body that exists from a subtle state, that inhabits a landscape based on what can’t be seen but sensed, like geomagnetism or a sensibility to that imperceptible in nature.

Manuel Rodriguez (Úbeda, 1980) studied Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance at the Luis del Río professional dance conservatory in Córdoba and at the Royal Professional Dance Conservatory Mariemma in Madrid. He also studied Plastic Arts at the School of Art No. 10 in Madrid. He is a dancer, choreographer and visual artist who focus his work on the power of the image and its abstraction, using the scene as a field of conflict between different artistic languages in order to transcend perception and form, where the body is articulated as a vehicular and plastic tool. 

Fundamental Noise
by Hamill Industries, Shelly and mans o
→ Thursday 07.03.2018 - 9pm

Fundamental Noise is an audiovisual performance that emerges from the collaboration of Hamil Industries with Shelly and Mans o, especially for this occasion. It is an exercise of visual symbolism dominated by sound, in which the spatial transposition of music is carried out through the installation Cosmophonia - The infrastructure of light. In this installation, Hamill Industries proposes to visually represent the sound through beams of light, making visible the sound landscapes proposed by Shelly and mans o. The musicians will present a sound of modular synthesis, which highlights the harmonic and polyrhythmic exploration, in line with the dynamics of the visuals.

Hamill Industries is the creative duo comprised by Pablo Barquín and Anna Diaz. His area of ​​work focuses on combining automated systems, digital tools and videographic creation to artistically explore the visualization of the nature of the sound and concepts of nature, cosmos, and the laws of physics. They develop artistic and technological research in the field of visual arts, achieving visual poetic experiences through the hybridization of digital and analogue technologies with crafts. Since 2015, they have accompanied the British producer Floating Points on their tours, creating their visual shows and the visual album Reflections - Mojave Desert.

Roman Daniel is a sound designer, maker and teacher in design areas, although he mainly works as mans o, his musical project that has led him to festivals and platforms such as Sónar and Boiler Room.

Joan Canyelles works under the pseudonym Shelly (aka InnoDB). Selected for the Red Bull Music Academy 2018, he is a producer, instrumentalist and student of audiovisual systems engineering.