Laboratori de calle

Laboratori de calle is constituted as a group of artistic experimentation in the street, artists from the performing arts, film and visual arts. The aim of the project is to set up a conversation table in situ in different parts of the territory around the Santa Mónica arts centre. The project raises questions about the politics of inhabiting the city, the limits between the public and the private, the economy of attention, the political geography of the city and its gestures. The laboratory's approach to these questions always involves an open debate followed by a performative action and its subsequent analysis, putting the concepts worked on to the test and taking them to the body and to space.

The proposal has two research fronts: on the one hand, it investigates and tests the performativity of the city and, on the other, it investigates the notion of institutionalism, that is to say, it raises questions about how a place is established, how it is instituted in its territory. Starting with a table that moves around the city, and from the moment it is installed and occupies a certain territory, a kind of laboratory of institutionality is activated, testing its permeability, its permeability with the context, its relationship with other institutions in the environment, its perspective of communication, its influence on flows and another series of events that allow us to think about what it means to establish a place, in a situated and embodied way.

Members:
Cecilia Vieira
Élise Moreau
Lautaro Reyes
Luana Raiter
Rafael Frazão

Cecilia Vieira (Madrid, Spain, 1994) Visual artist graduated in Fine Arts. She works on proposals of artivism, object art and visual poetry through urban studies, language and artistic participation. With a social and poetic approach, she researches and intervenes in elements that question the uses we assign to things.

Élise Moreau (Avignon, France, 1992) is a dancer, choreographer and educator. In 2017 she co-founded the collective Iniciativa Sexual Femenina, with which she develops performative and pedagogical works with a libertarian, anti-academic and feminist perspective. She is part of Makrâl, a multidisciplinary group that seeks in situ ways to activate collective memory in rural territories. She is currently developing individual works and collaborating with the artist Noela Covelo Velasco.

Lautaro Reyes (Valparaíso, Chile 1986) is a choreographer who moves between the areas of creation and research. He works from the possible languages of the body and articulates movement as a mechanism that provokes binding impulses, both in the people who produce the choreographic and in the people who observe the choreographic form, and from this communication of imaginaries creates a common understanding.

Luana Raiter (Brazil, 1981) is a multidisciplinary artist, PhD in Theatre Studies and co-founder and member of the collective ERRO Grupo. Her artistic and academic research is focused on participatory practices in the arts, with special interest in the intersection between art and activism and institutionalisation and subversion, through a transdisciplinary view between urban anthropology, performance arts and philosophy.

Rafael Frazão (São Paulo, Brazil, 1985) is an artist and researcher with a degree in film and a master's degree in visual arts. He works from the audiovisual language in different projects, approaching the fields of poetry, technological experimentation, performative arts and cinema of invention. In his recent career he has exhibited works in places such as MACBA, Santa Mònica, Casa Encendida, Ars Electronica and others.