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8-16 June | Songs Inherited (It’s Alright Ma) | Tsering Frykman-Glen

For some years Tsering Frykman-Glen has been working on a series of works that come under the title “Songs Inherited”. Within this larger series there are several complete bodies of work – That’s Not How It Appeared On The Box (2006), Landslide 1 (2008), Landslide 2 (2008) and It’s Alright Ma (2012-2013). These works are a direct reference to the music her late father listened to when she was a child. Frykman-Glen feels she inherited from him, and their complicated relationship, a great love of music. Making these works is her way of communicating the things she couldn’t when he was still alive.

It’s Alright Ma is a small body of work (4 paintings and one small sculptural work), in which we follow a pair of swimmers carrying a giant yellow pom-pom on a preposterous journey. From farm lands, across lakes and finally to the top of a mountain, wearing just their bathing costumes and environmentally out of context, they traverse a cold and barren terrain in order to get to their final destination. The reasoning, purpose and end result remain unclear but the use of traditional visual symbolism hints towards a questioning of life, death and misguided – possibly fallacious – spiritual awakenings.

Tsering Frykman-Glen is a British born, Barcelona based, cross media artist and curator. Although she has exhibited extensively internationally, this is her first exhibition in Barcelona. She is also the founding director of Remote, the online arts exhibition platform. (www.remotespace.org)

SCREEN Festival | Video art route Gotico Barcelona

In a central part of the historical Gòtic quarter, a group of neighboring spaces open their doors to show videos and video installations around the theme We Built this City. Works reflecting human-city interaction, migration, urbanization and construction/destruction will illuminate and transform the historic surface of the city.

Estudio Nómada - Michael Bliem (Austria) “Influence” - c. La Palma de Sant Just 7

Estudio Nómada - Alumnos de Estudio Nómada y Massana - c. La Palma de Sant Just 9

In the streets – Karla Kracht + Susana Karrash (Germany) “Space on Wheels” – Moving car going around the barrio

Base Elements – Julie Marsh (UK) “Winspit” -  c. del Palau 6

Pati Llimona - Noemi Sjoberg (Sweden) “Becoming beauty”, Liza Oliinyk (Ukraine) “Advertisement”, Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos / the|video|Flâneu® (Greece) “After Caspar David Friedrich” – c. Regomir 3

Palau Moxo - Lina Lopes + Paolo Muggler Moreira (Brasil) “LABinto” - Plaça de Sant Just 4

Unicorn studio – Christoph Medicus (Germany) “Loss of control zapping” – Baixada de Viladecols 4

Local D - Enric Socias (Spain) “Transverse” – c. la Palma de Sant Just 9 D

Blanco Studio – Sebastian Mühl + Stefan Hurtig (Germany) “Wall of fame” – Baixada Caçador 4

Endorfina – Anja Filatova (Ukraine) “Busy” – Baixada de Viladecols 3

Electrocometa - Ángel Muñoz (Spain) “Sedimental Code” – c. Cometa 6

Rhythm of the city – Tallers Oberts – Open Studios

Saints & Sinners | Exhibition

Saints and Sinners is a site specific installation of selected photographs and objects celebrating and documenting works created by two collaborative couples over a period of many years. The exhibition is part of an exchange show between artists connected to Visual Aid San Francisco and Estudio Nómada Barcelona.

The column of shoes and boots encrusted with gems and embellished with pompoms are parts of costumes worn by Mrs. Vera and participants in Verasphere happenings. These joyous interventionist performances are quasi-tribal gatherings of creative people who engage passersby and the audience at street fairs in celebrating creativity and otherness. Verasphere emerged as a counterpoint to a legendary performative character called Mrs. Vera, a solitary, transgressive creature invented by David Faulk and Michael Johnstone. Vera embodies the recycling and transformation of formerly discarded materials into something of value, becoming a stand in for the many talented artists and performers who we lost to AIDS.

Nontraditional wedding bouquet sculptures are installed as souvenirs of a seven year cycle of 14 weddings in six countries performed by Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle and a huge cast of many hundreds of artists, performers, writers, photographers and helpers who came together as part of the Love Art Laboratory to create earthy, ecstatic spectacles. These mesmerizing performances incorporated multiple acts, ritually exploring themes of unity and oneness, interwoven with love, eroticism and ecology.

This exhibition is curated by Julie Blankenship

Julie Kuyath | Exhibition 15-02 | 19.00

A show by Barcelona Gótico based artist Julie Kuyath. The series of paintings loosely reworks the 15th century French folktale of ‘Bluebeard’ by Charles Perrault. The tale tells a story of a violent aristocrat in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempt of one wife to discover his secret in order to avoid the fate of her seven predecessors.

The paintings explore the fatal effects of feminine curiosity, a much used subject of story and legend, from Pandora to Eve.
More about the artist.

Open Call Gotic City SCREEN 2013 | Video Art Festival

The Austrian Artist Michael Bliem is selected for the Artist in Studio in Estudio Nómada within the framework of SCREEN Festival 2013.

SCREEN Projects and Estudio Nómada collaborate in the organization of SCREEN Festival 2013 with a program that aims to activate the texture of the city with video art in the Gotic district of Barcelona.

For the 2013 edition of SCREEN Festival, Estudio Nómada issued a call for artists with the theme We build this City, consisting of a residency of five months in Estudio Nómada to produce a video installation to be exhibited during the festival.

Better than Real | Documentary weekend | 15-17 March

Amidst artists in the heart of Barcelona you are invited to participate in an intensive reflective documentary weekend. In a small group (max. 12) you will take part in activities to get into the right mood to use your mental abilities to the fullest.
A yoga session, a life drawing class, a stroll through beautiful Barcelona and decent Spanish food will be dressed with a selection of documentaries that give direction and bind the activities to the theme: “Better than real”. The evenings will be filled with thought provoking filmscenes that evoke and inspire a group discussion.

The perception of our reality in relation to the quality of life is the central topic of the weekend. Some questions that will be discussed:

• how is our reality and our identity shaped?
• what and who are the shamans of the 21st century?
• what is willpower and what are my driving motives?
• is it possible and what does it mean to live ‘your own life”

Psychologist & lecturer at the University of Amsterdam Werner de Gruijter and Arnout Krediet, linguist & founder of Estudio Nómada are passionate documentary collectors and thinkers. They will take you on an exploration between realities.

Cost: €385,- including lunch & dinner

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We Were Here – 7 November 19-22 hrs.

‘We Were Here’ is an installation that takes its origins from human mark making: the interplay between its playful and inherently destructive nature. The central sculpture is a complex structure serving both as a reminder of man’s dominance over nature, and our infantile need to make our immortal mark on the world.

SALAO – Performance

SALAO – the worst kind of unlucky

SALAO is a visual theatre performance about vanishing sea life. A young girl feverishly tries to save and establish a monument for extinct species – out of thin air. She tries to reach the Old Man, who holds on to his material certainties he miraculously finds in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. Can she survive? Will he ever understand what he has done?

If all life is one, what does it mean to destroy other species? If all life is gone, what then do you do?

The performance emerged from a collaboration between visual artist Iris Tonies and theatre director Sven Jense, produced by Estudio Nómada and hosted by Makers of Barcelona.

Sculpture: by Iris Tonies
The Girl: Diane Huge
The Man: Arnout Krediet
Text: Ernest Hemingway, Arnout Krediet, Sven Jense
Direction and Violin: Sven Jense
Assistant director: Anouk Koers
Thanks to: Cecilia Tham

Date and time: Saturday 16 June, 21.00
Place: MOB, Makers Of Barcelona, Calle Bailen 11, Bajos // Barcelona, 08010
Duration: 30 minutes

www.svenjense.com

Liquid SCREEN, 31 may – 2 june

Four sailing boats will put up their sails to be used as movie screens each night after sun sets over Primavera Sound. The first edition of ‘Liquid SCREEN’ will feature the video dance movie ‘Continuum’ by Manon Le Roy, produced by associació NU2′s. This new video art event is a co-production by San Miquel Primavera Sound, SCREEN from Barcelona and Estudio Nómada. This floating cinema can be experienced from the 31st of may untill the 2nd of june from dusk till dawn on the festival terrain of Primavera Sound.

Open studio’s / 18-20 may / Open clouds

City SCREEN ’12, 26 may – 2 june

Between 26 may and 2 june 16 venues around our neighborhood show a selection of video-art. Estudio Nómada organized the route in the Gotic in collaboration with SCREEN from Barcelona.

No Manda! (No rules!) #4: vernissage 9 march

#4 of our students exhibitions. Every month students of art school Estudio Nómada get the chance to show their abilities in an exhibition. This time they grouped together to recreate the space in ‘Between the Lines’: a multimedia sitespecific work that occupies the entire space.

Miranda, same product new name

No Manda! (No rules!) – edition 3

Living Flow

Say goodbye show by artist and teacher Winston Lau.

Autonomous

Solve & Coagula – Shan Crosbie – 19 january

No Manda! (No rules!) – 2nd edition

No Manda! (No rules!)

Opening friday at 19.30!

Exploration Barcelona

Exhibition of five young artists from Barcelona:

• Ledian Fernandez Lopez
• Sunita Wardhan
• Maria Skjønsberg
• Irene de la Selva
• Tyler Snazelle

Life – Art – Self / 27 oct – 4 nov

Roesja Trimbos

Cleansing Party

Final chance to cleanse you soul in a minute!

I’m Clean

During the group Exhibition ‘I’m Clean’ Estudio Nómada will be turned into a colorful and intimate pilgrimage. You can safely rethink your misdeeds and (anonymously) leave them behind on a piece of fabric that will be added to the installation. During the closing bubbleparty on the 13th of May your confession will be cleansed in a ritual washing performance.

Tallers Oberts 2011

FLOCK by Margot van Ham – 14th of april

Vere van Hal – en la sombra de Barcelona

Avanzando – Monica Urriolagoitia – 2-14 april

www.monicaurriolagoitia.com

Dominika Berger – Identities – 3 March

www.dominikaberger.com

STUVO – choose your education

26 and 27 january Estudio Nómada will be present at STUVO in Utrecht to give a presentation about our art school.

Architecture – Blipoint

INkthesky | Sentidos (senses)

U.B. Morgan | Selling Faith

Group exhibition: Education a universal right

Drap-Art ’10

Nómadas Hissora, Iris, Gonzalo and Lorena are invited to join Drap-Art ’10 with their group work ‘Tengo raices pero floto’. Their audiovisual sculpture will be shown from 18 december untill 9 january in the CCCB.

Pez Khamino & Pajares

In cooperation with Base Elements we show a selection of work of Pez Khamino and Pajares untill october.

INkTHESKY – fourth edition

For three days the boat of Nómadas Arnout and Iris was sold out with people watching videos on the sail. Check out the pics:

Little break

End of october we start with new  exhibitions in Estudio Nómada. Untill then we are filling up our creative brains.

Tallers Oberts – Open studio’s 2010

Estudio Nómada joins the Tallers Oberts, ‘open workshops’. Throughout the entire city workshops open their doors. The artists in Estudio Nómada joined forces in a group exhibition.

Sueños

Een groepsexpositie georganiseerd door de Nómadas van BliPoint.

t’echo de menos – derde editie INKTHESKY

INKTHESKY doet mee aan het festival Off-LOOP tussen 12 en 20 mei.