EntreActes displays proposals in a state of prototype, interventions, improvised actions, borderline, or meticulously planned situations, experimental, liminal, precarious, minimal, fragile, minor living arts, to be reused in empty spaces or rather, to be experienced in exhibition scenarios in a state of dismantling and assembly.

EntreActes also aims to focus on the experimental processes and mediation projects that take place at the Santa Mònica as a centre for artistic research and which are often not visible. Some of these processes emerge during this period between exhibitions to publicly display their research and reflections.

EntreActes#2

Taking advantage of the spaces and times between exhibitions, the Guild of Spaces (Anna Solanilla, Cris Candela and Pedro Bennaton), resident artists of the Les Mòniques 23/24 programme, proposes a multidisciplinary and subtle event in the spaces in transformation of the Santa Mònica, for a week with the participation of six of the seven guilds of the centre (Guilds of Spaces, Participation, Publishing, Communication, Digitalisation and Gastronomy), the TRAMA project and (create) Situacions #5.

The EntreActes interact with the situation of transit, challenges of passage, liminal, between exhibitions with isolated or related experimental artistic prototypes. The situations proposed in the EntreActes arise from the questions that the artists ask themselves and want to experience as guilds in residence at the centre: a space and time of encounter between ‘inhabitants’ of the institution, the population around the centre and the creators in residence. At the same time, EntreActes also hosts the processes at Santa Mònica that take place during the exhibition cycle and emerge publicly during the inter-exhibition period.

In theatre, in a dramatic performance, the intermission is defined as an intermission, an interruption between parts of a play. Specifically, in the old dramatic performances, the intermission (the dance, the comedy numbers, sainete, etc.) had to be a different action from the one that was represented on the main stage, both aesthetically and relationally, and especially without any technical and spatial necessity, because the stage was just being set for the next act.

EntreActes takes the original idea of the design of the centre as a unique space with its architectural circumstances, its particular reverberation, its physical and temporal voids, its situated possibilities to experiment with different artistic and relational proposals, in a state of testing: small performative capsules that take place in different corners of the centre and where actors and actresses have the opportunity to offer their scenes: schematic audiovisual installations, situations of intervention in the street and time/site specific actions that interact with singular performers, guest artists and the public; actions at the limit of the possible and the impossible, in an obligatory minor gesture.

In the moments between exhibitions, the centre is transforming and showing itself in multiple layers, often unknown to its users. Times and spaces meet in altered, in-between, borderline spaces. The proposals of EntreActes start from the basis of attention, situated observation and listening to the development of the activity of the technical teams (illuminators, assemblers, designers, etc.) who are carrying out the transformation and act symbiotically with what is happening in the centre at this moment.

EntreActes, and specifically this second edition, is an invitation to enter this space of change, to be and to experiment between what was and what can be. This line of artistic research is linked to the prototypes that the Guild of Spaces has been working on at Santa Mònica in the past: the Observacions Situades, El Salt de la Fera or the Social Elevator.

Programme:

Gachamiga (collective cuisine) / 06.06.24 / 2 p.m. / Terrace
The Gastronomy Guild would like to offer the team that will be working on the dismantling of the exhibition in June a gachamiga, a dish made with flour, oil, garlic and water, which is eaten directly from the paella.

Despertar olfactiu? (installation) / 06.06.24 / Exhibition and non-exhibition spaces
A proposal by the Gastronomy Guild on smell as a ‘minor gesture’ that seeks to awaken the memories associated with certain smells and to spread aromas of coffee or cocoa around the Santa Mònica in a simple activation that will consist of roasting some beans of these ingredients to activate their aromas and perhaps leave some traces in the centre.

Veus de TRAMA exhibition (installation) / 06-09.06.24 / Hall
An exhibition of the participants in the TRAMA community learning art laboratory. TRAMA takes the form of a support group and a place for learning through art, offering the members themselves to contribute knowledge and design sessions, while at the same time giving them the chance to get to know the centre's spaces, its programme and its artists. It was born and developed as a research-action project at the Santa Mònica arts centre, within the framework of the residency in artistic mediation research of the Gremio de Participación 21-22 and 22-23, and under the impulse of the artist and psychologist Diana Rangel.

______ was here (instalación) / 06–13.06.24 / Exhibition and non exhibition spaces
Some Situated Observations of the Sala del Santa Mònica team will be installed, through small, minor stickers, in very unlikely places in the centre to make public their own specific observations, but especially to reveal these sometimes minor places as public places of the centre in addition to its exhibition spaces. A proposal by the Guild of Spaces.

entreJam#2 (performance) / 07.06.24 / 18h / Exhibition spaces
Improvisation session with a guitarist, two singers, two dancers and a mobile audiovisual installation in the exhibition spaces under construction, with the aim of listening to it, listening to each other and creating a horizontal and minimal show between flamenco, the contemporary, the living and the virtual. A proposal by the Spaces Guild.

EntreExpo (I got a studio), travelling exhibition (performance) / 07–13.06.24 / Bar Lounge and exhibition spaces
Performance showing the creative process of the artist Noor Issa. A proposal by the Spaces Guild.

Reverse Presentation - (creating) Situations #5: Other Sides / 09.06.2024 - 13h / Terrace
The collective of the Santa Mònica's collective curatorial learning and research programme is organising an open microphone for anyone who wants to present themselves, say what they want or leave a graphic trace on pieces of clothing from the dismantling of the exhibition The Other Side. A presentation at a provisional end.

This bike spies on you (installation and urban intervention) / 11-13.06.24 / Staircase and around the city centre
A device of digital mediation and counter-espionage through the hacking of the tourist rental bicycles parked around Santa Mònica, based on the fact that the companies that exploit these bicycles base their business on the capture and commercialisation of their users' data. A proposal by the Digitalisation Guild.

Phantom Visit (installation) / 11-13.06.24 / Exhibition and non-exhibition venues
A device in the shape of a necklace that records your steps in the spatial and temporal coordinates of the centre. The data of your visit will be stored so that subsequent visitors can notice a sound/vibration when they approach the same spaces you have previously visited. A proposal by the Digitalisation Guild.

Porta Project (installation) / 11–13.06.24 / Entrance
Interventions that continue the intervention EntreActes: estudis sobre una porta from the identification of the door of the Santa Mònica with the incorporation of a large, clear sign marking the place of entry, the use of catenaries to frame the access path, the design and placement of signage for orientation inside the building, the generation of a welcoming space in the lobby and the identification of the Santa Mònica as a public art centre with free admission. A proposal by the Publishing, Participation, Communication and Spaces Guilds.

Quedar para estar (intervention and installation) / 11.06.24 / 12 noon - 2 p.m. / Bar and Terrace Room
An invitation from the Participation and Communication Guilds: ‘We will spend two hours in the Sala Bar and on the terrace reading and doing our own things (including those understood as doing nothing) in silence and accompanying each other. Maybe we'll play some instrumental music that with lyrics distracts us. If you feel like it you can come by, come on, see you later! A hug.’

Cua Teatre (performance) / 13.06.24 / 6 p.m. / Outside the Santa Mònica
A participatory performance with an entrance queue, an EntreActe. A group of performers, in collaboration with ERRO Grupo and the public who wish to join in, are invited to stand in the situation of a queue and to participate in the different situations that derive from this everyday and very common device in the city.

Links of interest:
https://linktr.ee/errogrupo
http://www.errogrupo.com.br/v4/pt/
https://cristinacandela.net/
https://www.annasolanilla.com/

EntreActes is a prototype of artistic mediation device promoted by the Spaces Guild 23/24 (Anna Roselló, Cris Candela, Pedro Bennaton)

In collaboration with several professionals; the Participation Guild, Communication, Edition, Digitalisation and Gastronomy; the participants of the project Trama and the programme (creating)Situations #5

Pedro Bennaton: resident and worker in Barcelona since 2018, born in London, PhD in Theatre, co-founder of ERRO Grupo in 2001, in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Bennaton is a director, researcher, playwright and actor, with experience in Arts and Theatre, and a focus on Urban Intervention and Performance, working mainly on the following themes: street theatre, urban space, participation, invasion, observation, invisibility and displacement. Since 2021, Bennaton has been a guest lecturer at the Jornades d'Investigació Artística de la Universitat de Fontys, and since 2022 he has been artist-in-residence at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona.

Cristina Candela: dancer, audiovisual creator, performer and Mònica. Born in Madrid, she has developed her career as a dancer in Barcelona where she has worked in tablaos such as Tarantos, el palacio del flamenco or el patio andaluz. In her facet as a video-creator, her works have been selected in festivals such as Miami Screendance Fest, CineDanza Festival in the city of Mòdena or seismes in Barcelona. As a performer she will premiere her piece NANA in November 2021 in Barcelona.

Anna Solanilla: Visual artist and stage designer. She has carried out different projects and exhibitions in the field of visual and performing arts. Her current projects are focused on experimentation with digital arts applied to the stage and on installation devices. She teaches at the Escola Superior d'Art Dramàtic (ESAD) about analogue and digital projects and representation systems. She has also been assistant director and head of master's degrees. PhD in the history of scenography from the University of Barcelona. Graduate in Fine Arts and Dramatic Art, specialising in Scenography (Institut del Teatre). Since 2022 she is artist-in-residence at the centre of arts Santa Mònica.

EntreActes #2 (video)

1. INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTION

2. FRONT PAGE

3. EXPLANATORY TEXT

4. DETAIL OF THE PROGRAMME'S AGENDA

5. IMAGE 

6. REAR PART